Can rules and algorithms serve to automate our decisions?
So the real question isn’t "How do I remove unpredictability and randomness from my business?"
It’s "How do I deliberately make and structure decisions to increase the chance that novel ideas or outcomes lead to improvement?"
If you are interested in this topic in some depth, you may read
Edwards, W. (1954). The theory of decision making. (Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1954, p. 380-417.)
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things we'll talk about
how do ethics and loyalty impact an individual's likeliness to decide ethically within an organization?
what kinds of pressures does an individual have to contend with that an organization does not?
(family duties come to mind)
are individual decisions within an organization less important than the decisions made by organizations as a whole?
more important? the same?
could you have made this decision in that situation?
If the session will include an in-class exercise, it will be noted here.