Understanding complex problems and making decisions on that understanding is important. Some people are naturally better at understanding complex problems and being accurate when compared to others. If we were all good at it then we would have solved many personal, organizational, and national problems by now. Thus, finding solutions also means talking in the various pieces of information and sifting them through various problem perspectives to find that which seems to be the most holistic solution.
What holds people back are many and that includes limited perspective, personal bias, time, resources, and even want and need. When we take the time to understand ourselves we become better decision makers. We can do that because we become aware of what blinds us. As Confusions said, "The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.". Just because it sells doesn't make it a solution....it could do even the opposite.
The more complex the problem, the more we need to understand ourselves to see all of the parts and find the solutions needed.
The following is what constitutes complex decision making from a study on Complex Decision Making (Fischer, Greiff & Funke, 2012, abstract)
(1) information generation (due to the initial intransparency of the situation),
(2) information reduction (due to the overcharging complexity of the problem’s structure),
(3) model building (due to the interconnectedness of the variables),
(4) dynamic decision making (due to the eigen dynamics of the system), and
(5) evaluation (due to many, interfering
and/or ill-defined goals)
Fischer, Andreas & Greiff, Samuel & Funke, Joachim. (2012). The Process of Solving Complex Problems. Journal of Problem Solving. 4. 19-42. 10.7771/1932-6246.1118.
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