Build a practical toolkit for deliberate reasoning: pre-mortems, pre-set criteria, decision journals, and decision-mode choices. Apply the right tool to stress-test plans, compare options fairly, review decisions honestly, and match your level of analysis to the stakes.
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit 1: Stress Testing With Premortems
- Distinguishing Structured Thinking From Pessimism
- Facilitating a Launch Pre Mortem
- Ranking Failure Modes Into Safeguards
- Unit 2: Setting Decision Criteria
- Quiz about Setting Decision Criteria
- Scoring Vendors Against Fixed Criteria
- Defending the Vendor Choice with Evidence
- Unit 3: Separating Decisions From Outcomes
- Spotting Resulting In Decision Reviews
- Judging Decisions Not Just Outcomes
- Build Your Decision Journal
- Unit 4: Matching Thinking to Stakes
- Fill in the Blanks about Decision Modes
- Matching Thinking to the Stakes
- Right Sizing Three Decisions by Mode