Students demonstrate the ability to employ a rational process that avoids rationalizations and elevates logic over emotions. The rational process includes: 1) Identifying long-term and short-term objectives. 2) Devising alternative courses of action to achieve the objectives. 3) Foreseeing potential consequences to each person or group (i.e., the stakeholder) affected by the decision. 4) Choosing the course of action most likely to produce the optimum (i.e., best possible) result. 5) Monitoring the effectiveness of the decision and making adjustments as necessary to achieve the objectives.