Making decisions

• Decision making meeting

• Rule based decisions - Following Dogma and Process. Prevents creative thinking and limits options.

• Informed decisions - Using Principles, Tricks and Techniques to make decisions. In this case, we are using what we know to guide the decision but not limiting ourselves.

• Unintentional decisions

• Decisions can be important or urgent. See Eisenhower Matrix. Important to not confuse important as urgent. Take time for important decisions.

• Don't make big decisions, make big decisions irrelevant

  • Big Decisions = decisions we'll have to live with for a long time or decisions that are high risk
  • what's the cost of making the wrong decision versus the cost of making the decision irrelevant?

• If you need to make big decisions:

  • Ask for help
  • Share your work
  • Take your time
  • Answer what's the worst that'll happen, and how do we handle it

• Sometimes a decision is made when it's "good enough for now and safe enough to try"

• Create path of least resistence to make good decisions.

Communicating decisions:

1. Present the problem or opportunity
2. Show you studied the potential solutions
3. Make a recommendation
4. Ask for validation

Resources

• https://www.parabol.co/blog/async-decision-making-slack
• https://thedecider.app/
• https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/decisions.php