A520.3.1.RB_MarshallJohn

I find myself to be more cautious than ever before in my decision making style.  Currently it is based on the agonizing associated with the decision.  I have so many tools at my disposal for making decisions and a lot of the time the tools give conflicting data. 
In turn I also find myself concerned with the most logical decision, in my job there aren't many ways to solve an issue without the correct solution.  It's not a matter of opinion I have to find the issue, be it an electronic, pneumatic, mechanical or hydraulic discrepancy, and find a cause for the problem.
 I occasionally find myself making many decisions based on the influence of people who have worked directly on my current issue in the past. When this is the case I act prior to doing all the leg work myself, I have no reason to question the information given and will waste time researching the information for myself.
Impulsive decisions would fall on the other side of cautious decisions.  I feel that with the decisions I have to make at work, impulsive decisions are not credible.  You have to KNOW what is wrong with a system in order to give a corrective action, and if you act on impulsive thought processes you take a high risk of wasting a lot of money and resources .  There may be times when the decision needs to be made in a very timely manner, and the risk of making a wrong decision out ways the costs associated with a correct fix. But at the end of the day you have either made the correct decision or an incorrect decision.  Compliant, for my job, tends to be the opposite of logical.  If you take the advise from someone whom you aren't familiar with, who has an authoritarian job title and attitude, you take the risk of smearing your name and not theirs.  This is not a good place to be in my position, people need to know they can count on my decisions every time.  This also falls in with my influenced decision making style, because I do like to get information from people who have crossed the bridge before and tailor my decision process around their suggestions.  This is a case by case process and I need to make sure that every time I throw my name on something I take advantage of all my resources to make an informed decision.