Judgment Capstone
Name: Kailin Mai
Student ID: 861187117
Major: MBA
Judgment Capstone
Book Review
Everyman as I am, I have made thousands of decisions since little child. We may choose what to eat, where to live or our friends according to our judgment. Judgment seems to be so common in our life that all of us can make a judgment at a second and then move on. However, an exactly good judgment, according to the book Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, appears not at a single moment but in the middle of a process. The authors of the book prove that most of the important judgment arises in three domains: people, strategy and crisis. What’s more, the content and emphasis of judgment in these three domains are different separately. For a great judgment, leaders should master contextual knowledge of one’s self, their social network, their enterprise and stakeholders. In the reading material, the author provides a large amount of examples of CEOs who make the grade in all domains, like Jack Welch, Jim McNerney, A.G. Lafley, Brad Anderson, Mark Hurd and Philip J. Schoonover, Raymon, and Harry to support the assertion that leader’s most important role is making good judgment calls in the three domains mentioned above and the second important role is to develop future leaders who make good judgment calls. Good leaders use “Storyline”, an articulation of a company’s identity, direction, and values, to guide them when under judgment process. By the way, a successful storyline can’t live without teachable points of view, which impetus leaders to pass their stored knowledge and experience on future leaders. So how can these successful leaders make a proper judgment that keeps a company prosperous? The key to the answer is the process of judgment. As two authors mentioned in this book, good judgment calls are a process, which means the calls need steps. For further explanation, a specific framework for good judgment was provided and it encourages us to identify an essential process
Student ID: 861187117
Major: MBA
Judgment Capstone
Book Review
Everyman as I am, I have made thousands of decisions since little child. We may choose what to eat, where to live or our friends according to our judgment. Judgment seems to be so common in our life that all of us can make a judgment at a second and then move on. However, an exactly good judgment, according to the book Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, appears not at a single moment but in the middle of a process. The authors of the book prove that most of the important judgment arises in three domains: people, strategy and crisis. What’s more, the content and emphasis of judgment in these three domains are different separately. For a great judgment, leaders should master contextual knowledge of one’s self, their social network, their enterprise and stakeholders. In the reading material, the author provides a large amount of examples of CEOs who make the grade in all domains, like Jack Welch, Jim McNerney, A.G. Lafley, Brad Anderson, Mark Hurd and Philip J. Schoonover, Raymon, and Harry to support the assertion that leader’s most important role is making good judgment calls in the three domains mentioned above and the second important role is to develop future leaders who make good judgment calls. Good leaders use “Storyline”, an articulation of a company’s identity, direction, and values, to guide them when under judgment process. By the way, a successful storyline can’t live without teachable points of view, which impetus leaders to pass their stored knowledge and experience on future leaders. So how can these successful leaders make a proper judgment that keeps a company prosperous? The key to the answer is the process of judgment. As two authors mentioned in this book, good judgment calls are a process, which means the calls need steps. For further explanation, a specific framework for good judgment was provided and it encourages us to identify an essential process