Decide

Topics

• too many cooks spoil the broth
• consent, a.k.a. integral decision-making
• thumb protocol
• delegation poker

From top to bottom, your control, involvement and responsibility increases, and decision speed decreases.

• You bless the decision, perhaps refine it a bit.
• You suggest any improvements which the author processes into a new revision.
• You can react within a time limit; no reaction implies your consent.
• You get involved and the decision must have your consent.

Sources

• Fast Company » Robert Chen » 10 decision-making principles that will help you make tough calls

• HBR » Peter Hopper, Jugnu Sakuja » A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions
• InfoQ » Geoff Watts » Book Q&A on Product Mastery
• Crisp » Henrik Kniberg » How we make decisions; see decision spectrum and bun owner.
• Big Think » Make Better Decisions: Redefining “Giving Up”
• Big Think » Alex Berezow » Unlike Voters, Fish Make Better Group Decisions
• InfoQ » Michael Nir » Three Practical Guidelines for Business Decisions
• http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/01/when-to-decide.html
• https://hbr.org/2015/01/make-it-easy-for-decision-makers-to-approve-your-deal
• http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/05/how-to-go-faster.html

Pearls for Decision-making

Decision-making	Goal:	Therefore:
Customer segment pivot	jump up your revenue and return by maximising value creation
Decision spectrum	pick the proper decision process	Pick the fastest decision process on the on the scale from “fast” to “well-anchored”.
Even over	make choices, to implement and deploy strategy	Publish and pin “even over” statements all over the place.
Nemawashi	decide wisely at the latest responsible moment	Slowly and thouroughly consider and consent all real options, and implement decisions rapidly.
Zoom-in pivot	refocus product development on just one successful feature of the larger whole