Discussion Forum
How are critical thinking and decision making related? Identify and discuss at least 3 heuristic decision-making strategies for leaders.
1. Are leaders thinking critically when we use heuristics in strategic decision making? Explain your answer.
2. Practical Application: Describe a decision a leader that you are familiar with has recently made. The decision can be of a personal or professional nature. Assess whether the leader seemed to use heuristics vs. critical thinking in their decision-making. Discuss why one method would be more effective than the other in reaching the decision.
Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:
• Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic.
• Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor.
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic.
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail.
• Share an applicable personal experience.
• Provide an outside source (for example, a website) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA).
• Make an argument concerning the topic.
Require:
One page with 2 references.
