It beats bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, and improves, over time, people’s judgment in decision-making.Ģ. The distinction between two different types of decisions and, thus, two different types of decision-making mechanisms must be crystal clear. Those decisions can use a lightweight process. Many decisions are reversible, two-way doors. Never use a one-size-fits-all decision-making process. The end result of this is slowness, unthoughtful risk aversion, failure to experiment sufficiently, and consequently diminished invention. We'll have to figure out how to fight that tendency.įive rules can guide you toward high-velocity decision-making:ġ. Type 2 decisions can and should be made quickly by high judgment individuals or small groups.Īs organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use the heavyweight Type 1 decision-making process on most decisions, including many Type 2 decisions.
You can reopen the door and go back through. If you've made a sub-optimal Type 2 decision, you don't have to live with the consequences for that long. We can call these Type 1 decisions.īut most decisions aren't like that - they are changeable, reversible - they're two-way doors. 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. 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.
Unfortunately, it's easy to mistake a Type 2 decision for a Type 1 decision or to let caution creep in and assume that every Type 2 decision is a Type 1 decision.ĭo that and you become paralyzed - and make no decision at all.
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