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Why Minimize Management Decision Time - Johanna Rothman I’ve mentioned before that my wife, trained as an emergency-room nurse, and myself, trained as an academic, have very different default approaches to decision making under uncertainty. I fall more under the “I’ll just do a quick literature review and read these two books first” school. She has what Google calls “a bias towards action”. Both are perfectly good approaches in the right context. Unfortunately, as a manger, my default stretching out of decision making - and...
Continue...Five Questions that Will Help You Strengthen as a Decision-Maker - Art Petty Tweet: “Every time I make myself write out…” - Cindy Alvarez As managers, making decisions is a pretty big part of the job - priorities for the team, criteria the next new hire, etc. It pays to spend a little time structuring our thoughts around decisions, whether they are decisions we’re making completely by ourselves, or decisions the team is making together. Petty has five questions he suggests we use to guide...
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The Decision-Making Pendulum - Candost Dagdeviren Our Role in Effective Decision Making - Kathy Keating Everyday Decisions, Done Dirt Cheap - Matt Schellhas Dagdeviren talks about the decision-making pendulum, the spectrum of decision-making processes ranging from authority (“Because I said so”), through advice and consent, to consensus decision making (“So say we all”). The processes at the extremes aren’t great for either the teams or the decisions that likely result (I don’t agree with everything Manager-Tools says, but I think they’re 100% right about consensus...
Continue...Unstuck yourself from the ideas that go nowhere - Candost Dagdeviren Falsify yourself - Jonas Lundberg It’s really, really hard to let go of an idea you came up with. We built the entire scientific method around that fact! And so outside of science and the rigour of hypothesis testing and unfriendly reviewers, it’s too easy to cling to ideas that clearly aren’t going anywhere. This is especially true in people or project management, where you lack the immediate feedback that comes with doing hands-on...
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