4 Biases Behind Stupid Decisions
Intelligence doesn’t eliminate bias. It makes you better at defending stupid decisions.
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Drucker on Decisions
Drucker said, “If you have quick consensus on an important matter, don’t make the decision.”
Important decisions deserve rigorous debate. Constructive dissent makes them better.
The purpose of dissent isn’t disagreement. It’s wisdom.
4 Ways to Improve Decisions
Your Time Lens Shapes Direction
Time is a way of seeing.
The calendar and the clock impact decisions. Decisions shape direction.
Leaders make decisions with an emphasis on either the past, present, or future.
Discover your time-lens and learn how it impacts decisions.
The 6 Sense-Making Questions
Sense-making is map-making.
You don’t respond to events. You respond to what events mean.
Sense-making runs on questions.
You usually don’t notice your sense-making questions.
You feel the conclusions.
Learn the “Three Actions of Sense-Making for Leaders
The Destruction of “Maybe”
Saying “maybe,” when you mean “no,” keeps false hope alive.
Avoiding “no” doesn’t make you kind. It makes you deceptive.
Stop strangling progress with “maybe.”
Deceptive Substitutes for “No”
We’ll see.
Let’s see what you come up with.
Ask me another time.
Not now (without a clear timeframe).
Don’t leave talent hanging.
Forging Clarity in the Fog
You abandon the future when you run from uncertainty.
Don’t manage things that should change.
The future is forged in the fog.
#1. Clarity enables performance.
#2. Confusion is an opportunity.
#3. “Not knowing” is the path to innovation.
Don’t wait for clarity; create it.
Here’s how…