“Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions.... See more

In his 2015 shareholder letter, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos introduced us to lightweight, distributed decision-making. He calls irreversible decisions “Type 1” decisions and reversible decisions “Type 2.” He goes on to note that “as organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use the heavyweight Type 1 decision-making process on most

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CHOICES—DECISIVENESS REVISITED Setting priorities requires making tough choices as to what is really important. One reason so many people have such a difficult time getting focused is that they also have a difficult time making decisions: they balk at choosing which items will be left off their priority list. And you must be willing to take items

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