Maybe I should take the course on "Effective Writing"...

I'm pursing a Master's degree in Emergency Management. I took the "Emergency Management Leadership and Organizational Theory" as an elective. It was an interesting course and increased my interest in organization theory and leadership. A portion of this field is decision making.

What I have gotten out of it is that when making these critical decisions, you need to step back. Gather as much information as you can, think it through, and the decision kind of appears. I think listening to the case studies will help an individual know when they are about to encounter a pitfall in making a critical decision.

For planning itself, it may not be that useful. For response, very. You'll end up planning on how you'll make these decisions, but essentially you're trying to develop a new habit to make sure that decisions are made with all of the information.

The uses case studies and examples as support, and does give recommendations on how to avoid some of these problems. I think this would be useful to anyone in probably nearly any life situation.