The Dialectics Of Decision-Making Typologies: Rationality Vs Intuition
The Dialectics Of Decision-Making Typologies: Rationality Vs Intuition
Author(s): Marian Niculae, Florin StafiSubject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: military decision; intuition; education system; rationality; courses of action;
Summary/Abstract: Decision is something that cannot be seen, but can be evaluated by the effects it causes. Numerous attempts made to decipher the secrets of the decision-making mechanism have led to numerous theories, but not to apriori winning solution whatsoever. Closely related to various factors, such as cognitive, emotional, social ones etc., decision-making reflects the entropic status of the organisation, represented by the decision-maker, with all their implicit or explicit culture. The emulation of an intellectual process, decision has many times been at the border of rationality, and that is not at all paradoxical, we believe. Intuition is not luck or hazard; it is the reflection, beyond rationality, of the vision of a genius, difficult to explain, and even harder to learn. War, inits irrationality, entails rational rules as well as moments of intuition. We do not think that one decision is better than the other, depending on the chosen method. However, we believe that, in the absence of patterns, intuition is what makes the difference.
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 26-47
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English