Larry Dressler's Speech As A Skillful Collaboration

Decision Making Analysis
“I think that decision making is the fundamental challenge for organizations that aspire to be collaborative. There are a lot of things we can do to solicit input, to involve people, to inform people, but so often the rubber hits the road at decision points, when a group of people have to sit around a table or in a circle and deliberate around a specific decision, and the mindset and the skill set and the methods are important here. And an organization and leaders need to invest in those things if they want to move toward skillful collaboration.” (Dressler, 2013). I could not agree more with Larry Dressler in his speech in Decision-Making as a Skillful Collaboration. He helped define decision making and in the Destination
With that, they all exemplified confidence in what they were doing and that they were turning their companies from bankruptcy to a prosperous future. In the example of Anne Mulcahy, CEO of XEROX, she grew up in the organization and had to make several hard changes upon receiving the role of CEO. One of the hardest of these decisions had to be shutting down a sector of business that she pioneered for XEROX. This demonstrates great humility to me, and hope in the future I could overlook my pride to be able of an action like this. Neville Isdell was pulled from retirement in order to pull Coca Cola back to the competitive front of the beverage industry. I thought it was rare to see someone with a background in social work to chosen to be CEO of a multi-billion dollar company as Coca Cola. Gary Kelly took an approach to the business different than most CEO’s, in which he stepped down from his “ivory tower” to talk to people his airline was serving in order to benefit his approach. In the case of Mackey McDonald, he demonstrated several things that I admire. First, he started as a cashier and worked his way up and setting a goal of being CEO of the company by 40 which he later accomplished. Second, he did not care if you have never heard of him or his company, all of his pride and efforts were in the actual product the company was
I do not agree that the video’s demonstrated the importance of decision making with the exception of Decision Making as a Skillful Collaboration. Instead I felt as if the videos highlight the importance of attitude and adjustment in the face of struggle. In each of the videos, the CEOs were hand-picked in order for their view of the company and how its future should be.
Conclusion
Decision making is a necessity in the business world, whether you are a production worker or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The process in which you handle making the decision from start to end, will determine the success rate of each choice. If you perform the process in the six stages of “identify and diagnose the problem, generate alternative solutions, evaluate alternitves, make the choice, implement the decision, and evaluate the decision” (Bateman & Snell, 2011)., you will great improve the value of your decision making, therefore setting yourself and company up for success.

References
Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. (2011). Management Leading & Collaborating in a