Learn more about problemsolving with this collection
How to make good decisions
How to manage work stress
How to manage email effectively
Specify your objectives
A decision is a means to an end. Ask yourself what you most want to accomplish and which of your interests, values, concerns, fears, and aspirations are most relevant to achieving your goal.
Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.
1.14K
3.78K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Consider linked decisions
What you decide today could influence your choices tomorrow, and your goals for tomorrow should influence your choices today. Thus many important decisions are linked over time.
1.05K
3.49K reads
Understand the consequences
Assessing frankly the consequences of each alternative will help you to identify those that best meet your objectives—all your objectives.
976
3.66K reads
Your risk tolerance
When decisions involve uncertainties, the desired consequence may not be the one that actually results. A much-deliberated bone marrow transplant may or may not halt cancer.
901
2.73K reads
Work on the right decision
The way you frame your decision at the outset can make all the difference.
State your decision problems carefully, acknowledge their complexity and avoid unwarranted assumptions and option-limiting prejudices.
1.09K
7.63K reads
Clarify your uncertainties
What could happen in the future and how likely is it that it will?
947
3.21K reads
Create imaginative alternatives
Your decision can be no better than your best alternative.
973
4.02K reads
Grapple with your tradeoffs
Because objectives frequently conflict with one another, you’ll need to strike a balance. Some of this must sometimes be sacrifices in favor of some of that.
918
2.77K reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Related collections
More like this
SMART goal-setting framework
Set goals that are:
- Specific: It will be easier to see what you need to accomplish.
- Measurable: How will you know when you’ve achieved your goal?
- Attainable: Or realistic. Is it possible to achieve the goal you’ve set for yourself?
- Releva...
How To Approach Risky Decisions
- Stop And ask why: Weigh the risk-reward ratio before taking action.
- Seek advice from someone neutral: Seek a mentor who can give unbiased advice on your plan of action.
- Winning is not enough: Achieving an end goal feels sh...
2. Prioritize your objectives (cont.)
Prioritize your objectives by asking important questions such as:
- Which of these initiatives will have the greatest impact when it comes to achieving our company mission/vision and improving our position in the market?
- What types of impact are ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates