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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive

How to Avoid Making Decisions

1 Pass the : Pass off the responsibility of making the

decision to someone else; do not make decisions by yourself, but

bring in someone to blame if things go wrong

baton

buck

torch

tray

2 Have second thoughts: Second thoughts have more

useful decisions than all the difficult circumstances and

overwhelming obstacles fate could ever throw at you; and

undermining your authenticity by succumbing to someone else's

second thoughts is a subtle and seductive form of self-abuse

abhorred

aborted

abused

abutted

3 Succumb to failure: Believe that the choices you will make are

predestined and you are to fail (one gets used to failure)

versus the result of hard work and thought

bound

determined

expected

seen

4 Set up a committee: A committee is a down which ideas

are lured and then quietly strangled; the greatest things are often

accomplished by individual people, not by committees

coq au vin

corps d'elite

coup de grace

cul-de-sac

5 False decentralization: this could take place when an

authoritative manager assigns accountability to a new 'director of'

for every new decision-making problem, but does not any

authority

delegate

derogate

indicate

instigate

6 Commonsense-based decisions: If you start making decisions

on the basis of wisdom or chatter in the hall, generally

speaking, you will make the wrong decision; what is called

common sense is almost always uncommon

conventional

conversational

individual

institutional

7 Failure to understand the problem: This is caused by, among

other things, subjectivity, irrational analysis, lateness or ,

lack of sensitivity, and lack of focus

predestination

preoccupation

procrastination

proliferation

8 Rationalization to limit the course of actions: This strategy is

very popular — the cards to make one alternative clearly

right and remove all risk

cut

deal

shuffle

stack

9 Information: Some information gathered is not valid —

decisions are often made first and information sought to support

the solution, or much of the information gathered is to the

decision-making

inconsequent

incorrigible

irrelevant

irreverent

10 False alternative: This attempts to the decision-maker

into a corner from which there is no escape except to accept the

alternative

box

frame

screw

wrestle