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Introducing the Moving Beyond Compromise Blog

Written on March 5, 2019.

This series of articles will explore group decision-making and problem-solving with the aim of examining the methods used and why they so often fail to deliver effective, or sometimes any, results. I will then look at a different approach to the two related activities of decision-making and problem-solving that can, if applied, lead to the outcomes we seek.

The overall “field” of studying decision-making and problem-solving is pretty vast, with many books, academic studies and articles, blogs, and even university classes about these subjects. In the course of these articles I will refer to some of the literature directly but will mainly focus on summarizing current practices being used and examine why they so often fail to succeed. Along the way I will offer up some new approaches.

Initially, I will be focusing on decision-making for businesses but later will go into applications in other settings.

Considering Alternatives

Written on March 3, 2019.

As we discussed last week, the most common way individuals make decisions is to consider alternatives and make a choice. How individuals go about this process defines the extent, and even quality, of the alternatives among which they can choose.

To reiterate, the approaches to individual decision-making that I outlined are:

How do groups make decisions?

Written on September 1, 2019.

In the last couple of blogs, after looking at personality types and working styles of the wide range of members potentially involved in a group decision-making effort, I asked how a group that could be so disparate could make any decisions. In this entry we will look at how decisions typically are made in groups.

Solution-Building™: An Introduction, Part 2

Written on October 27, 2019.

In the last post I ended with a brief discussion of issues that can arise when working with others we do not like or even actively dislike. This time we will start with how we can get along with, and work with, these people.

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 2

Written on December 27, 2019.

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I apologize for being offline for the past two weeks. I have been dealing with the passing of my 103-year-old father. This involved making many decisions, both on my own and in consultation with my family and people we needed to work with outside the family. Some were easy and some difficult, but I did my best to follow the principles I am writing about in this blog. It helped keep me focused on the essentials and on easing the burden on others, as well as myself.

Now, back to Solution-Building, picking up where we left off.

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 3

Written on January 3, 2020.

The second Guideline follows, at least to a great extent, from the first. It, too, is a part of commitment.

Guideline Number Two: You must come to the group ready and willing to participate

Seems obvious, right? Doesn’t everyone come “ready and willing to participate?” Most of us have had experiences in which this is not true. Some people do not participate for a wide variety of reasons.

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 5

Written on February 23, 2020.

At the end of the last entry in this series, I said we would look at how we implement:

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Introducing the Moving Beyond Compromise Blog

Considering Alternatives

How do groups make decisions?

Solution-Building™: An Introduction, Part 2

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 2

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 3

Guideline Number Two: You must come to the group ready and willing to participate

Solution-Building™: The Rules, Part 5

Guideline Number 3:
Treat everyone in the group with courtesy and respect.

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Guideline Number Two: You must come to the group ready and willing to participate

Guideline Number Three: Treat everyone in the group with courtesy and respect.

Guideline Number 3: Treat everyone in the group with courtesy and respect.

Guideline Number Three:
Treat everyone in the group with courtesy and respect.

Guideline Number 3:
Treat everyone in the group with courtesy and respect.