Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
If a decision can be unmade, it’s okay to make it quickly.
Delaying a decision is a decision.
When a decision remains unmade, there’s a reason. However, that reason is often unspoken.
The effort to make the right decision is proportional to the consequences of getting it wrong.
Decisions are sometimes made without the non-deciders realizing that they were made.
Trouble arises when the decision maker is not the customer of the consequences.
Decisions are made slowly when people are afraid to make them.
When you don’t know a decision was made, you’ll continue to behave as if it wasn’t.
If five people are responsible for the decision, who is responsible for the decision?
Even if you are unaware that a decision was made, you’ll likely be expected to behave as if you knew it was.
If no decisions will be made at the meeting, don’t go. Just read the minutes.
Documenting decisions is not standard work, but I think it should be.
Decisions can be made, not made, unmade, re-made, and re-unmade.
Decisions aren’t decisions until behavior aligns with them.
When a decision is yet to be made, you can influence the decision by behaving as if it was made in your favor.
If you wait long enough, the decision will make itself.
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