My favorite decision making frameworks

While frameworks can offer valuable perspectives and guide decision-making, rigid adherence to them can lead to tunnel vision and unhelpful outcomes. Successful decision-making often requires a blend of framework-guided analysis and intuitive judgment, where the needs of both the business and the customer are carefully considered.

Use the “3Ds” framework to make better decisions for your org:

1. Discover: Collect individual opinions independently before group discussion and then share these with everybody prior to the meeting.


2. Discuss: Compare perspectives within the group, focusing on understanding points of disagreement rather than building consensus.


3. Decide: Make decisions inde

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It's Not About A Spreadsheet Of Inputs

The goal of the framework is not to try and boil a decision like this down to a set of spreadsheet inputs that spits out a "right" answer. Instead, the goal of the framework is to:

• Be able to name the individual variables that are inputs into the decision.

• Evaluate each individual variable in a stru

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