Decision-making is a fascinating field. Do you know the difference between a "tough" decision and a "bad" one? Not every bad outcome is the result of a bad decision, just like not every GOOD outcome is the result of a good decision. Decision theorists describe tough decisions as ones that are:
Complex
Ambiguous, and/or
Conflictual
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According to a study published in Live Science, it appears that they do. And if Malcolm Gladwell is to be believed, human decisions often depend more on what we think within the first two seconds of a situation than they do on any sort of group process. Meetings are fun to hate. [...]
The word used to mean something. But in the human service bizz, it became popular with funders (for all the right reasons) and then became ubiquitous among service providers (for a few right reasons and a whole lot of wrong ones). Now it’s often sprinkled about and means little more than “agreement to share funding” [...]
From: Myers, David.G. (1996, 5th edition); Social Psychology, NY, Mc Graw-Hill, S. 339 ff
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