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#decisions
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
A majority vote among the generals
The solution would be to have each of the four generals exchange information with the other generals and take a majority vote to select which data that has been exchanged is correct.
Digital Transformation At Wellcome Collection – Stacks
Understanding of our audiences
We embrace decisions based on an understanding of our audiences Understanding our users is at the heart of everything we do. We spend time understanding what they do, what they want to do, what they can’t do, and we test our ideas with them. We consider those who use Wellcome…
Ibm - What Is Data Quality? - Overview
Four qualities of high-quality data
Data quality is an essential characteristic that determines the reliability of data for making decisions. High-quality data is: Complete: All relevant data —such as accounts, addresses and relationships for a given customer—is linked. Accurate: Common data problems like…
Kick The Can Down The Road - Idiom Definition - Usingenglish.com
Kick the can down the road
If you kick the can down the road, you delay a decision in hopes that the problem or issue will go away or somebody else will make the decision later.
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: align your goals with your true values
This takes some time and real work. We often act to fulfil a personal value. Choosing a late night at the office over the gym may signal a high value of commitment to work over health. When you are conscious of the true values driving your decisions, it's easier consciously to…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Proactivity means responsibility for our lives
While the word proactivity is now fairly common in management literature, it is a word you won’t find in most dictionaries. It means more than merely taking initiative. It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our…
Asking the proactive question
So on the third day, we decided to focus on the proactive question, “What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this situation?”
The Daily Routines Of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs And How To Design Your Own Master Routine (belle Beth Cooper)
Decision fatigue
Obama is also very careful to minimize distractions like decision fatigue: “I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing,” he told Michael Lewis. “Because I have too many other decisions to make.”
Why The Modern World Is Bad For Your Brain (daniel J Levitin)
Multitasking requires decision-making
To make matters worse, lots of multitasking requires decision-making: Do I answer this text message or ignore it? How do I respond to this? How do I file this email? Do I continue what I’m working on now or take a break? It turns out that decision-making is also very hard on…