The Unbooked Cost of Delay
Waiting is the only decision an organization can make without anyone being accountable for it. That, rather than caution, is why so much of it happens.
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Leadership Lessons
Practical leadership lessons from experienced Idahoans across the state's industries, institutions, and communities — guidance you can apply in your own work.
Sort by Reversibility, Not by Importance
How much process a decision deserves should be set by how hard it is to undo, not by how large it looks. Size is visible, reversibility…
Read →The Anatomy of a Decision
Choosing, deciding, and committing are three separate acts. Most organizations perform the first, believe they have done all three, and then wonder why the matter keeps…
Read →The Judgment Review
A quarterly ninety-minute session for scoring your own past decisions against what actually happened. The instrument that converts a decision record into calibration.
Read →The Traps That Survive Knowing About Them
Awareness of a reasoning trap does almost nothing to prevent it. Every countermeasure that works operates on the procedure or the order of information, never on…
Read →Deferring to Someone Else’s Judgment
Deference is not an escape from a decision. It is a decision about whose judgment is better here, and you remain accountable for making it well.
Read →Knowing the Limits of Your Own Judgment
Overconfidence and chronic hedging are the same defect wearing different clothes. Calibration is not humility; it is an accuracy property, and unlike humility it can be…
Read →When to Trust Your Instinct, and When It Is Lying
The strength of a gut feeling carries no information about its reliability. A hunch from a domain where you have no valid experience feels exactly as…
Read →How Judgment Is Built
Judgment cannot be taught, but the conditions that manufacture it can be arranged. The central one is permitted failure at survivable scale, which almost every organization…
Read →The Costs Nobody Describes at Promotion
Promotion is presented as accumulation. It is also a set of subtractions, and the largest of them is the loss of accurate information about yourself from…
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