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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
- 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 |