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"Organizational Decision Making" - or "The Art of Bullshit-Bingo"

Would a fine feeling sleeping until you wake up when ever you want. After the last days lacking of sleep i could sleep well and long. But now i lack on time for my homeworks. Friday is coming soon and i have not even began one of the three summaries. Because of this i started reading after lunch, but i could not concentrate on the book. Outside the sun was shining, the air had amazing 19°C and i had to sit inside... I decided, that i would need some entertainment before i could go on with my studies and went out for a walk. Phil joined me and we started to find our journey to a nearby lake. It was a quite nice trip, following the river that crosses Sundsvall. Before we reached the lake we arrived at a bridge and we had to climb down a hill to the river for finding our way further. We just planned to walk for one hour our journey took three, but it was worth the time, because the landscape was so beautiful all the time.
Back home i started my homework and i am still reading. I don't know what to think about this book. On the one hand it is interesting to analyse decisions but on the other side i get angry because of this stupid chapters. Each chapter is a work of one professionell who just talks a little bit over decision theory. But instead of giving my short explanations he just bothers me with stupid philosophical Bla-Bla-Bla hiding the essentials of the theory. Perhaps he had to fullfil preferences like filling 40 pages of his theory. If so he decided rule-based to write a lot with saying little. I think this could be the essential of the chapter. But it is too short for my preference filling one page with the essentials of the chapter. Perhaps i should take also a few lessons in stretching information. At home we call this "bullshit-bingo". But except from this, the theory is interesting and i start to analyse decisions in all day life. And i even wrote a half page! Yes! That makes approximatly 17 % of the requirements. Think positive.

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myblog said…
I have to read such books, too. It really sucks! Seems to be very popular here in Sweden!
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