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PB Technologies Exercise The exercise was designed so that everyone is assigned to an executive position in PB Technologies. Then, everyone has to choose his or her candidate individually before we attend the executives meeting to come up with a single candidate. My position in the organization was the VP of Marketing. Once I received the exercise’s handout, I read it carefully, compared the three candidates’ resumes and then decided to nominate Suzanne T. Valdes for the Senior VP of Finance and CFO position. I based my decision on the fact that she has the most related work experience and personality to the position, EMBA and she is an insider, which I believe is a very important quality for that position.
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I also said that the CFO has to be a person who knows the company’s operations and financial structure very well so she has to be an insider. Then, Kristin supporters said that she is working on the same position in a peer company and can bring a new insight into the company. They also mentioned that she has international work experience and she is an excellent public speaker.
I realized that some group members raised some interesting information about Kristin but I did not pay attention to that. I have experienced what I later knew as confirmation bias “The tendency to notice, search for, interpret and remember information in ways that confirm our prior beliefs, and to avoid information that contradicts our prior beliefs”. I was only looking to the facts that support my choice and rejected the facts that prefer other candidates.
We have spent 30 minutes of discussion and everyone adhered to his opinion. I then decided to change my preference from Suzanne to Kristin. I realized that Kristin has better leadership skills, and she might adapt quickly to the position because she worked for a peer company as a VP of Finance and has international exposure. In addition, she might bring a fresh outlook into the company. They both have superior qualifications and the differences between them are minor. Then, the group members made their decision based on the majority and selected

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