Identify a previous decision you made that had important unintended consequences. (Use the school close down for lack of finances as example). Were the consequences good, bad or both? By making use of the eight-step decision making process and/or other decision-making approaches on decision making, should you and could you have done anything differently in making the decision? Discuss.

1. Identifying a problem

2. Identifying decision criteria

3. Allocating weights to the criteria

4. Developing alternatives

5. Analyzing alternatives

6. Selecting an alternative

7. Implementing the alternative

8. Evaluating the decision's effectiveness