satisfice

• “The debate over whether librarians should be complicit in students' efforts to "satisfice" -- that is, do what they can to get by and graduate -- can be a contentious one, since it runs to the root of what the library and higher education in general is for.”

  USA Today: Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise

• “It tells readers to set standards and look for "good enough," rather than holding out for the very best conceivable choice: to "satisfice," in the jargon of social scientists, rather than "maximize.”

  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run

• “Thill says she does not think "satisfice" should be a dirty word.”

  USA Today: Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise

• “If these students are trying to "satisfice," it probably isn't so that they'll have more time to goof off, she said.”

  USA Today: Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise

• “To satisfice is "to decide on and pursue a course of action that will satisfy the minimum requirements necessary to achieve a particular goal" OED.”

  How to Choose a Sewing Machine - A Dress A Day

• “Dynamic Tension eliminates the tendency to satisfice by making it impossible to succeed without thinking differently.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Elegant Solution

• “There is always some foot-dragging in order to satisfice sufficient numbers of the laggards to justify a game from a business perspective.”

  March 2005

• “Saunders and Tuggle commented in the same vein that a lack of stringent competition allows managers to “satisfice at a more comfortable level” instead of having to optimize, as planning supposedly does 1977:21.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

• “They do not maximize or“satisfice;” they often make quite poor, subrational choices.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE MORAL DIMENSION

• “Firms would try to ‘satisfice’ rather than to maximize. 1959, p. 263, italics provided.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE MORAL DIMENSION

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