DECISION MAKING

By USMC The Basic School

Marine Corps Officers are decision makers. The unit we command is our weapon. We decide and clearly communicate a course of action. Our Marines translate it into action. As a future leader, you will be required to make decisions in combat. Your cognitive framework - how you make decisions - governs the quality of your decisions. You must understand how you make decisions in order to make better and faster ones, especially in a time-competitive environment filled with violence, disorder, risk, and uncertainty. What do you know, what do you think, and what are you going to do about it? Tactical leaders hone their warfighting skills through the focused study of tactics, utilizing the tenants of combat to provide the transition from the theoretical application of tactics to the practical. Success in combat is reflective of a leader's ability to make tactically sound decisions in a time constrained and ever-changing environment. Success in this time compressed environment is based on the ability for our leaders to conduct detailed analysis (analytical decision making) of the complex information prior to entering that environment. Only with the application of that analysis as a foundation, will the leader be able to apply the continuous analysis (recognition-primed decision making) necessary to make tactically sound decisions in the time compressed environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1092416595
• ISBN13: 9781092416597
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"