High-risk, critical decision-making under time pressure: Some parallels and learning from split-second choices made in extreme adventure sports
- Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers
- 49(3), Jul-Sep, 2024: p.197-212
In a world beset with crises, everyone from professional manager down to the layman is keen to understand how to make quick decisions under emerging disruptive situations. This article, employing self-reflective analysis of critical incidents, describes the author’s personal experiences from the field of adventure sports categorised as high-risk, critical decisions, involving split-second choices—while sky-diving and flying—to trace the mental cognitive processes from a decision maker’s perspective. This is used to discuss and establish a practitioners’ operational framework for high-risk, critical decision scenarios, drawing upon established theories and frameworks from cognitive, social and psychological decision research.- Reproduced