Leadership Questions

  

14 of 15 Questions

5 points

You are on a university committee planning a large student event (performances, food vendors, and accessibility services). Two weeks before contracts must be finalized, you learn your budget will be cut by 25%. Some vendor deposits are partially non-refundable, student leaders strongly prefer keeping a headline performer, and the campus accessibility office warns that cutting services could exclude some attendees. Your committee must decide what to change without canceling the event.

Apply the rational decision model to outline a defensible decision process your committee should follow from start to finish.

Your answer must include:

• A      clear problem definition that separates the goal from the constraints
• Explicit      decision criteria (including at least one criterion about stakeholder      impact)
• A set      of realistic alternatives your team would generate (not just one “obvious”      option)
• How      you would evaluate and choose among alternatives using the criteria
• An      implementation plan plus a post-decision review plan (what you will check,      and when)

15 of 15 Questions

5 points

A health-tech company is deciding whether to release a new “auto-triage” feature that suggests next steps to patients. A senior leader is pushing to launch in 3 weeks to beat a competitor, and the product team keeps pointing to one early pilot site where feedback was positive. In meetings, quieter clinicians rarely speak up, and the team has already spent months building the feature, so some members argue that delaying would “waste” the investment. The release is partly reversible (you can turn the feature off), but a bad launch could harm trust with patients and partner clinics.

Identify the most likely decision biases and group-dynamic failure modes in this situation, and propose specific process safeguards to improve decision quality. Your safeguards must fit the decision’s risk, reversibility, speed, and stakeholder impact, and they must support psychological safety while keeping productive task conflict.

Your answer must include:

• At      least two likely biases or group-dynamic risks present in the scenario
• How      each identified risk could distort evidence use, problem framing, or the      final judgment
• Concrete      safeguards/interventions matched to those risks (e.g., independent input,      explicit criteria, alternative generation, devil’s advocate, dissent      protocol, post-decision review)
• One      specific way you would increase inclusive voice/psychological safety      during the decision process without reducing task-focused debate