faulty decision

Another factor I have to look back at is my faulty decision that we should separate.

This can result in poor or faulty decision making and negotiating outcomes.

A faulty decision, a bad choice of words, would only force her back into the dark hiding place from which she was moving fearfully.

Players must have intuitive leadership in this campaign because faulty decisions by the player can force themselves, that is to say, Napoleon, into exile.

The popular middleweight became a compelling national figure when he lost the 1988 Olympic gold medal in what most experts considered a faulty decision.

But that was rarely necessary; her self-honesty did not often lead her into faulty decisions.

In circulating this necessary but unpleasant letter we are not concerned with his faulty decision in the Damascus case.

According to Janis, faulty decisions are made because group pressures lead to a deterioration of "mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment".

The "human element" is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a non-cooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit.

In other words, having rank reversals in certain occasions and of certain types may not be indicative to faulty decision making.

Mr. Cisneros said the department made some faulty decisions in granting the loans, some in the 1980's and some earlier.

However, they can be applied to workers at all levels of an organization because faulty decisions can be made at personal as well as business-wide levels.

If the Bush administration insists on hiding its own faulty decision making behind the intelligence community's shortcomings, we can expect that the arrogance underlying our current foreign policy will continue.

Congress has been stymied for years over how to regulate managed health care, in particular over how to hold H.M.O.'s accountable for faulty decisions about treatment.

In traditional histories, he was praised for his integrity but blamed for faulty decisions that led to the imperial government's loss of control over the circuits north of the Yellow River.

Brown stated that his decision to speak at the Temple was "not a faulty decision at the time it was made, based on all the object factors at that time."

Another few months of going unchallenged and the faulty decisions made based on those data could have placed the Federation at the brink of anarchy as planet after planet succumbed to food shortages and rebellion."

His lawyer, Bajram Krasniqi, who said he was eager to be helpful to investigators of the Hague tribunal, said in Pristina that he believed Imer Delijaj felt guilty for a faulty decision.

On the one hand, it is important to reduce the risk of losses and to minimise the potential for faulty decision making at a management level. On the other hand, this must not result in the introduction of unnecessary red tape.

On Wednesday, Judge Parker apologized to Dr. Lee for those conditions, said he had been wrong to send him to jail and excoriated the government - and Mr. Kelly in particular - for misleading him into making a faulty decision.

Critics of the agency's action - including many senior officers in the Air Force, which lost a key communications satellite - have contended in recent days that there are parallels to the faulty decisions that led to the Challenger's launching on Jan. 28, 1986.

Janis (1972) introduced the notion of Groupthink that advocates an increased chance of groups making faulty decisions under several conditions; strong group cohesion, isolation of group decision from public review, the presence of a directive leader in the group, and high stress levels.

After the publication of Janis' book Victims of Groupthink in 1972, and a revised edition with the title Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes in 1982, the concept of groupthink was used to explain many other faulty decisions in history.