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How to make good decisions
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Create imaginative alternatives
Your decision can be no better than your best alternative.
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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.
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Understand the consequences
Assessing frankly the consequences of each alternative will help you to identify those that best meet your objectives—all your objectives.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Clarify your uncertainties
What could happen in the future and how likely is it that it will?
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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.
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When the other party is more powerful
The weaker party can be protected against a poor agreement by developing a BATNA - the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement.
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Live With Your Decision
Make a decision and hold firm to that decision. You can deal with any consequences of that decision as they arise later. In most cases, making a bad decision is still a lot better than making no decision at all.
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