The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness

Chapter 2

Problem solving and decision making

The opening questions

• Do you know the difference between problem solving and decision making?
• What biases do you have that might impact on your decision making or approach to problem solving, i.e.:
  • in framing the problem
  • in deciding on and actioning a solution?

Applying mindfulness to problem solving and decision making

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving … we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Seymour Papert, 1997

Leaders need to make decisions every day. You may already have a method, a strategy or, perhaps, you rely mostly on past experience? Mindfulness helps you to recognise the limits of your knowledge ...