Business English Lesson – Advanced Level''''s archiveHow to Avoid Making Decisions potx

Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
How to Avoid Making Decisions
1. Pass the : Pass off the responsibility of making the
decision to someone else; do not make decisions by yourself, but
bring in someone to blame if things go wrong.

baton
buck
torch
tray
2. Have second thoughts: Second thoughts have more
useful decisions than all the difficult circumstances and
overwhelming obstacles fate could ever throw at you; and
undermining your authenticity by succumbing to someone else's
second thoughts is a subtle and seductive form of self-abuse.

abhorred
aborted
abused
abutted
3. Succumb to failure: Believe that the choices you will make are
predestined and you are to fail (one gets used to failure)
versus the result of hard work and thought.

bound
determined
expected
seen
4. Set up a committee: A committee is a down which ideas
are lured and then quietly strangled; the greatest things are often
accomplished by individual people, not by committees.

coq au vin
corps d'elite
coup de grace
cul-de-sac
5. False decentralization: this could take place when an
authoritative manager assigns accountability to a new 'director of'
for every new decision-making problem, but does not any
authority.

delegate
derogate
indicate
instigate
6. Commonsense-based decisions: If you start making decisions
on the basis of wisdom or chatter in the hall, generally
speaking, you will make the wrong decision; what is called
common sense is almost always uncommon.

conventional
conversational
individual
institutional
7. Failure to understand the problem: This is caused by, among
other things, subjectivity, irrational analysis, lateness or ,
lack of sensitivity, and lack of focus.

predestination
preoccupation
procrastination

proliferation
8. Rationalization to limit the course of actions: This strategy is
very popular — the cards to make one alternative clearly
right and remove all risk.

cut
deal
shuffle
stack
9. Information: Some information gathered is not valid —
decisions are often made first and information sought to support
the solution, or much of the information gathered is to the
decision-making.

inconsequent
incorrigible
irrelevant
irreverent
10. False alternative: This attempts to the decision-maker
into a corner from which there is no escape except to accept the
alternative.

box
frame
screw
wrestle