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Tools for Deliberate Reasoning

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Overview

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.

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

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