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Decision: Our Vision

Every business, business unit or non-profit organization has a vision.  It may be: A well-thought, well-articulated statement of purpose that your entire team has fully bought into. The sum of all your moving parts, as the individuals on your team act in … Continue reading

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Decisions reduce complexity

My grandson Luke (4) is actively working out the cause-effect relationships that govern his world.  He recently told his mom, “I need to drink more water, I’m constitrated“.  Beyond the humorous combination of constipated + concentrated, he had discerned that his … Continue reading

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Analogies between life and strategy decisions

Once when I was refining a decision pattern for Decision Driven® Strategy, I was populating the strategy Decision Breakdown Structure (DBS).  By a stroke of brilliance (actually an unintended copy error), I seeded the strategy decision pattern with the top … Continue reading

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What are criteria?

Criteria are one of the most fundamental elements of making a high quality decision.  Simply put, criteria are the way that you define success for a specific decision.  There are many synonyms for criteria: factors, measures of effectiveness, attributes, characteristics, … Continue reading

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