Decision Making

                Last week’s decision making session was partially interesting and chaotic for the rest. I am a person who does not really interested in involving into decision making unless I feel the decisions that the group is moving toward may greatly against  my interest in general, or you can say a typical accommodative decision making  type. So at the beginning of the discussion, I got involve a bit by just shot out my desire of able to reserve both choice of curve and extra credit options. Then, the thing becomes interesting; several students went on the stage to try their best for “the common good” since unless there is 100% agreement between all attending students, we will get neither the curve nor any thing else. Unfortunately, I feel the discussion was once a while interrupted by different interest groups and the leaders tried to accommodate with everyone, or shall I say whoever actually said something aloud. Ends up that most opinions that provided by these participants have almost equal yet not enough people to support neither of the options. This resulting in a wide spread avoiding and accommodative mood among the students. The leader’s power rose from low to moderate and drop back to low from time to time, once in the middle there were just chaos between different sides’ interests against each other and fighting so hard and ends up both solutions were dropped because there was several students’ shout against. Finally, at the end after sense that the most agreeable solution may not ever emerge unless all available options are listing visually for all, they started to write on the board. Trust me that writing was one of the greatest advancement for the human civilization regardless in term of religious or scientific perspective. As time is ending, something more dramatic started. More students felt the crisis and the necessity to stand up for a last fight. The situation became two leaders split in two parts; however it did not last long since people quickly realized that there is no future for keep on fighting against each other but reach for a simpler solution. At the end, few minutes before the end of the class, leader’s power maintained at moderate level and group’s power as well since the group in this case has much stronger power therefore, it is rather impossible for a fellow student to emerge to lead all unless the one is extremely insightful. However, the leader made an accurate choice of accommodate only basic rights that all that had no problem at the very beginning. It ends up, we get we we wanted to get at the very beginning, all extreme thoughts and attempts disappeared into the dust of the battlefield. I think We would have done better job if we wrote down all suggestions and vote on them one by one at the very beginning and there will be less likely any chaos like what we experienced. Though I have to admit its kind of entertaining to see how people struggle for what they want. I believe our professor must enjoy such tournaments very much as well.