Taipei Times
Date: Sep 19, 2016

While the leadership of the nation’s recent heads of state has seemingly run into criticism and has become a constant subject of debate within Taiwanese society, few have offered an objective discussion based on academic study of leadership. In a recent interview with ‘Liberty Times’ (sister newspaper of the ‘Taipei Times’) reporter Tzou Jiing-wen, former National Security Council secretary-general Ting Yu-chou offered his opinions on leadership in decisionmaking

Liberty Times (LT): How should leaders make decisions?
Ting Yu-chou (丁渝洲): Decisionmaking is the art of choosing. Everyone makes choices throughout their lives, and the quality of their decisionmaking makes success or failure in their lives. Decisionmaking is the most important and the most difficult. Leaders must take full responsibility for the operational outcomes of their organization and consider decisionmaking their unquestionable duty. To make and keep organizational success, its leadership necessarily has to make the right call at every crucial point in its history.

In recent years our government officials have made decisions of profoundly dubious procedural soundness and quality. I have been thinking on the reason why had these intellectuals and professional elite made decisions that clearly failed to withstand the tests. Decisionmaking is not merely a matter of logic; it requires experience, values and audacity.     [FULL  STORY]