Decisions Were Being Made.

‘Some mistakes were made along the way. And that’s good. Because it means that some decisions were being made.’ Steve Jobs

To maximise the learning and continuous improvement from a mistake, you must be able to find the errors in your working out.

A good decision making process such as the Five Steps allows us to do this.

Did we not Step Back long enough to allow us to shed emotion and bias?

Did we not Define the Issue correctly and get distracted by the Topic or an Agenda or Hype instead of Reality?

Did we not collect and Assess the Information thoroughly or accurately enough?

Did we not check for any Bias we may have and become distracted from our Widget?

Did we fail to Give a Hearing to anyone likely to be affected by our decision and deny ourselves the benefit of someone with skin in the game?

A Good Decision Making process gives us the benefit of a decision making autopsy. ‘Autopsy’ comes from the Greek ‘autopsia’ - to see with one’s own eyes.