There are three articles assigned for this week. In this forum, you are required to study these articles article debate/discuss how "better" decisions can be made in a non-linear world where managers and leaders are called on to make decisions within an organizational context

Linearity Bias - De Langhe et al warn us that adopting the linearity assumption in decision-making is way too simplistic and can lead management to make serious mistakes (and worse, being surprised by the results).

Snowden and Boone take a laser-like focus on the situational framework in which organizational decisions are made. They note that the situational /contextual frameworks can often be complex and possibly fluid. They categorized the range of these decision frameworks from simple, to complicated, to complex, to chaotic.

Using the knowledge gained from this course (and from these articles)

• Evaluate the often tried approach of adopting past solutions to similar problems encountered today? Is this a form of linear thinking or not?
• Why is linear thinking dangerous?
• Whether the application of the tools of rational economics lead to "better decisions", across all contextual frameworks?
• What about human behavioral responses and organizational discipline in each of these frameworks?