My major is business management. Although I am just starting out in business and I do not know that much about the major, after doing research in the library I found a book about decision making that I feel can be used in the business management field. The book I found was The Harvard Business Review on Decision Making. I was a little skeptical picking out a book that was written by the Harvard Business School because I thought the wording would be way out of my league being a beginner in business. This book was actually a pretty easy read, the chapters are set up nicely and it is easy to find exactly what you are looking for. I did not read the whole book, but I look through the table of contents to find a chapter that would best suit how to think critically in the business field.
The chapter I looked up was titled: Humble Decision Making, written by Amitai Etzioni. I found a quote that I feel can really help in making decisions if you are a business manager: “A new method of decision making is actually an old one, used by doctors for centuries and by many managers. It is called mixed scanning or adaptive decision making, and it involves two sets of judgments: broad basic choices about an organization’s goals and policies and a small, experimental decisions based on in-depth examination of a focused subset of facts and choices.” What I get out of this quote is that you should not over analyze situations. When you get facts maybe about how much a product is selling, or how little a product is selling, you can adjust to help your business out.
This blog was tough for me because I am not too familiar with how business management works yet, I just have this as my major because I feel like it is interesting and I can learn more about it as I take more classes.
Harvard Business Review on Decision Making. Boston: Harvard Business School, 2001. Print.
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