Go code instead of declarative? 🧑💻
Accept aggressive timeline and forgo sleep and mental health?
Recruit for charisma, certs and qualifications over ‘dull’ experience?🧑🎓
Making decisions quickly, based on facts and logical thinking is part of the job as #RealProjectManagers.
“But I find making decisions really hard!” 😣
I hear that from so many people.
Here’s an easy way to think about decisions.
Ask yourself:
What’s the impact of getting it wrong?
Are you making a decision about
🍩 What HAT to wear today?
🍩 What HAIRSTYLE to choose?
🍩 What TATTOO to ink?
HATS can be changed easily with no impact to a bad choice. Just pop a different one on.
No drama. 🎩👒🧢⛑️
Poor HAIRSTYLE choices stay a bit longer but is rectifi-able. You just have to wait a bit.
💇👱🧑🦱
And TATTOOS on the other hand, are pretty permanent. They don’t age so well, and would require quite a bit of money and pain to ‘fix’.
Once you’ve decided what type of choices you’re making, then it’s easy to decide how much energy or emotional investment you’re going to put into worrying about impact.
A lot in life belong in the H category – Hat and Hairstyle.
You make mistakes which are low impact, and you learn from them.
There are a few that are TATTOOS, and it pays to pay attention to the impact of those decisions.
How do you get better at making decisions?
Practice!
Practice until that decision muscle is honed and sharp enough to quickly discern impact and select the appropriate choice.
Birthday Donut for breakfast?
Especially when it’s Vanessa Grant`s kiddo hitting the new double digit decade?
Absolutely! 🍩😋
My decision making muscle barely twitched on that one. 💪🏻
Do you have trouble making decisions?
What tips can you share?
#OnThePeiroll
#DecisionMaking
