Dear Yoyos,
This is Harvey, I am going back to Taichung for my new career next month and it may be my last time to be a host. It is very hard to make this decision, so I would like to choose this topic “Decisions” for the gathering of 18th April.
Decisions‚ decisions! Life is full of them. You may not realize the vast number of choices you face each day. Some choices are simple‚ like what to wear, others are more challenging: deciding which friend to go out with or whether to go out at all. The most difficult decisions in one’s life include choosing a university‚ a career and a husband or wife.
For some people‚ decision-making comes pretty easily; however, for others‚ indecision is a serious and crippling problem that can stop them dead.
Here are some web-site for your reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree
http://www.time-management-guide.com/de ... kills.html http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TED.htm http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/le ... decisions/
Session I
1. Have you ever been in a dilemma in which you have to make a decision? What was the situation and what was your decision? Please share with us.
2. Can you name few cases / examples with successful decision making for our reference ?
3. Do you often discuss with someone ( family members / friends ... ) before making decisions, or do you prefer to make decisions by your own ? Why ?
Session II
4. What are the factors you think of when you have to make a decision?
5. Is money a factor in decision making? Say, when you have to choose a boy friend or girl freind?
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Agenda:
6:45~7:00 Greeting the members and guests / ordering food or
beverage.
7:00~7:15 Opening remarks / self-introduction of newcomer guests /
grouping
7:15~7:50 First discussion session
7:50~8:05 First summarization
8:05~8:15 Regrouping and taking a break
8:15~8:35 Second discussion
8:35~8:45 Second summarization
8:45~9:00 Concluding remarks/feedback from newcomer guests/
announcements
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Decisions- 4/18 (Wed.)
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Harvey Liu
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For your reference 
One of the most practical decision making techniques can be summarized in those simple decision making steps:
1. Identify the purpose of your decision. What is exactly the problem to be solved? Why it should be solved?
2. Gather information. What factors does the problem involve?
3. Identify the principles to judge the alternatives. What standards and judgement criteria should the solution meet?
4. Brainstorm and list different possible choices. Generate ideas for possible solutions. See more on extending your options for your decisions on my brainstorming tips page.
5. Evaluate each choice in terms of its consequences. Use your standards and judgement criteria to determine the cons and pros of each alternative.
6. Determine the best alternative. This is much easier after you go through the above preparation steps.
7. Put the decision into action. Transform your decision into specific plan of action steps. Execute your plan.
8. Evaluate the outcome of your decision and action steps. What lessons can be learnt? This is an important step for further development of your decision making skills and judgement.
~~ excerpted from
http://www.time-management-guide.com/de ... kills.html
A decision making tree is essentially a diagram that represents, in a specially organized way, the decisions, the main external or other events that introduce uncertainty, as well as possible outcomes of all those decisions and events.
Here is a schematic example that illustrates the basic elements of decision trees.
Squares represent decisions you can make. The lines that come out of each square on its right show all the available distinct options that can be selected at that decision analysis point.
Circles show various circumstances that have uncertain outcomes (For example, some types of events that may affect you on a given path). The lines that come out of each circle denote possible outcomes of that uncontrollable circumstance. Write down above each such line in the decision tree your best guesses for probabilities (for example, “80%” or “0.8”) of those different outcomes.
Each path that can be followed along the decision tree, from left to right, leads to some specific outcome. You need to describe those end results in terms of your main criteria for judging the results of your decisions. Ideally, you will assign each end outcome a quantitative measure of the overall total benefit you will receive from that outcome (you can express it as a perceived monetary value).
~~ excerpted from
http://www.time-management-guide.com/decision-tree.html
Lydia
One of the most practical decision making techniques can be summarized in those simple decision making steps:
1. Identify the purpose of your decision. What is exactly the problem to be solved? Why it should be solved?
2. Gather information. What factors does the problem involve?
3. Identify the principles to judge the alternatives. What standards and judgement criteria should the solution meet?
4. Brainstorm and list different possible choices. Generate ideas for possible solutions. See more on extending your options for your decisions on my brainstorming tips page.
5. Evaluate each choice in terms of its consequences. Use your standards and judgement criteria to determine the cons and pros of each alternative.
6. Determine the best alternative. This is much easier after you go through the above preparation steps.
7. Put the decision into action. Transform your decision into specific plan of action steps. Execute your plan.
8. Evaluate the outcome of your decision and action steps. What lessons can be learnt? This is an important step for further development of your decision making skills and judgement.
~~ excerpted from
http://www.time-management-guide.com/de ... kills.html
A decision making tree is essentially a diagram that represents, in a specially organized way, the decisions, the main external or other events that introduce uncertainty, as well as possible outcomes of all those decisions and events.
Here is a schematic example that illustrates the basic elements of decision trees.
Squares represent decisions you can make. The lines that come out of each square on its right show all the available distinct options that can be selected at that decision analysis point.
Circles show various circumstances that have uncertain outcomes (For example, some types of events that may affect you on a given path). The lines that come out of each circle denote possible outcomes of that uncontrollable circumstance. Write down above each such line in the decision tree your best guesses for probabilities (for example, “80%” or “0.8”) of those different outcomes.
Each path that can be followed along the decision tree, from left to right, leads to some specific outcome. You need to describe those end results in terms of your main criteria for judging the results of your decisions. Ideally, you will assign each end outcome a quantitative measure of the overall total benefit you will receive from that outcome (you can express it as a perceived monetary value).
~~ excerpted from
http://www.time-management-guide.com/decision-tree.html
Lydia
Words and Expressions to Learn April 18, 2007
biblical name:聖經中人物的名字
dilemma:左右為難；困境；進退兩難
八字： Eight Characters
中立的：neutral
互補： complementary
占卜：practice divination; divine
卦： divinatory symbol
善意的謊言： white lie
塔羅牌: the tarot {tarot的第二個t不發音}
漢字： Chinese character; kanji
績優股：blue chip
※ 「交通方便」不能說The traffic is convenient. 你可以說You can access lots of places easily.
※ I devoted one year working at a church. --> I devoted myself to church work for one year.
biblical name:聖經中人物的名字
dilemma:左右為難；困境；進退兩難
八字： Eight Characters
中立的：neutral
互補： complementary
占卜：practice divination; divine
卦： divinatory symbol
善意的謊言： white lie
塔羅牌: the tarot {tarot的第二個t不發音}
漢字： Chinese character; kanji
績優股：blue chip
※ 「交通方便」不能說The traffic is convenient. 你可以說You can access lots of places easily.
※ I devoted one year working at a church. --> I devoted myself to church work for one year.
Knowledge is power -- when shared.
Our group mentioned an analysis tool which might be helpful when we are going to make a decision. The tool is SWOT. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia.
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual.
If SWOT analysis does not start with defining an objective, it runs the risk of being useless. If a clear objective has been identified, SWOT analysis can be used to help in the pursuit of that objective.
SWOTs are:
Strengths(internal factors): attributes of the organization that are helpful to achieving the objective.
Weaknesses(internal factors): attributes of the organization that are harmful to achieving the objective.
Opportunities(external factors): external conditions that are helpful to achieving the objective.
Threats(external factors): external conditions that are harmful to achieving the objective.
First, the decision makers have to determine whether the objective is attainable, given the SWOTs. If the objective is NOT attainable a different objective must be selected and the process repeated.
If, on the other hand, the objective seems attainable, the SWOTs are used as inputs to the creative generation of possible strategies, by asking and answering each of the following four questions, many times:
1. How can we Use each Strength?
2. How can we Stop each Weakness?
3. How can we Exploit each Opportunity?
4. How can we Defend against each Threat?
A SWOT carried by an individual manager could look like this:
Strengths: Enthusiasm, energy, imagination, expertise in subject area, excellent track record in specialized area
Weaknesses: Not good at achieving results through undirected use of personal energies, trouble at expressing themselves orally and on paper – may have ideas but these come over as incoherent, management experience and expertise limited
Opportunities: More general management opportunities requiring development of new managers
Threats: De-centralisation having the effect of removing departments where the individual is employed and eliminating middle management layers to form flatter structure of organization
SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual.
If SWOT analysis does not start with defining an objective, it runs the risk of being useless. If a clear objective has been identified, SWOT analysis can be used to help in the pursuit of that objective.
SWOTs are:
Strengths(internal factors): attributes of the organization that are helpful to achieving the objective.
Weaknesses(internal factors): attributes of the organization that are harmful to achieving the objective.
Opportunities(external factors): external conditions that are helpful to achieving the objective.
Threats(external factors): external conditions that are harmful to achieving the objective.
First, the decision makers have to determine whether the objective is attainable, given the SWOTs. If the objective is NOT attainable a different objective must be selected and the process repeated.
If, on the other hand, the objective seems attainable, the SWOTs are used as inputs to the creative generation of possible strategies, by asking and answering each of the following four questions, many times:
1. How can we Use each Strength?
2. How can we Stop each Weakness?
3. How can we Exploit each Opportunity?
4. How can we Defend against each Threat?
A SWOT carried by an individual manager could look like this:
Strengths: Enthusiasm, energy, imagination, expertise in subject area, excellent track record in specialized area
Weaknesses: Not good at achieving results through undirected use of personal energies, trouble at expressing themselves orally and on paper – may have ideas but these come over as incoherent, management experience and expertise limited
Opportunities: More general management opportunities requiring development of new managers
Threats: De-centralisation having the effect of removing departments where the individual is employed and eliminating middle management layers to form flatter structure of organization
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technobabel
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互補的 - mutually compensate (each other) , complementary pairKooper 寫:It looks like our group used the wrong word as 互補的.
The word we used is "supplementary."
A dictionary says "Supplementary things are added to something in order to imrpove it."
One example usage it offers is "to take supplementary vitamins."
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I am not abandoning Yoyo, I am just dancing slowly away from it.
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technobabel
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Harvey Liu
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