Article January 1, 1972 Issue

Making Business Decisions

KENNETH C. SINCLAIR

Modern management techniques, even with powerful tools such as computers, are not able to take into account all the facts that might influence important industrial decisions. Not long ago in a survey of the attitude of senior business executives toward making decisions affecting their companies for several years ahead, many admitted that the final decision was not alone dependent on the facts presented to them, no matter how carefully prepared. In the final analysis, they said, their decision was an inner feeling, or, as some put it, a hunch about what was the thing to do or not to do.

Business men and women faced with important decisions affecting the livelihood of many employees may desire earnestly to do what is right but be besieged with human arguments and conflicting advice. Indeed, through the ages many men and women who have sought to make a right decision in difficult circumstances have in their perplexity turned to God for guidance. The Psalmist declared: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."^{Ps. 37:5, 6;}

The Christian Scientist engaged in business perhaps makes his greatest contribution to harmony in all his activities by acknowledging divine Mind's allness and turning to the spiritual facts of being instead of whatever erroneous conditions present themselves. To know the truth from the standpoint of Christ, Truth, blesses all with whom he may be concerned and enriches the organization in which he works.

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