1. Ask a manager to recall the best and the worst decisions heor she ever made in his/her organization. Try to determine thereason why these decisions were so good or bad
2. Why do capable managers sometimes make bad decisions? Whatcan individual managers do to improve their decision-makingskills?
3. Interview a manager and ask him or her to identify a problemor gap in the organization and let him or her answer the eightrelevant questions Let the students ask the following eightquestions: ?What situation is affecting the organization? (Theanswer to this question will identify the disequilibrium thatexists in the organization.) ? When did it occur? ? Where did itoccur? ? How did it occur? (This question needs deeper analysis tothe real root of the problem.) ? To whom did it occur? ? How urgentis the problem? ? How are the events interconnected? ? What is theresult of these events or activities?
4. Analyze the three decisions that you have made over the pastsix months. (At least one with a positive and one with a negativeoutcome). Under which conditions did you make these decisions andwhat types of decisions were they?