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Katherine Wastell on finding a balance between thinking and doing - How to use the ladder of inference to avoid cognitive biases
A useful mental model to help you be more aware of your inferences and support you to become a better thinker - Mental Models for Engineers and Managers
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Luca Rossi shares some great mental models for decision making - One- and two-way doors
Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel talk about how can do risky experiments in risk averse environments - Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions.
Nicky Thompson delves into the psychology of decision making and how we can use our understanding to make better decisions in this excellent talk. - What choices to make — and not
"Leadership is about making only the choices that you are best positioned to make — and not making the ones for which you aren’t, even if you are more senior than the person who will make the choice." - Roger Martin - How to measure all your work in progress to make better decisions
Johanna Rothman shares a practical example of taking a snapshot of work in progress to enable a team to focus on what is important - Meetings *are* the work
Elizabeth Ayer challenges the trope that meetings aren’t work - Prioritise the riskiest assumptions in big problem spaces
Harry Vos's useful reminder to focus our attention on the riskiest assumptions in our decision making - The Fingerprint Principle
Esther Darby gives some great advice on letting people for getting buy-in for change. This approach also gets feedback on your ideas sooner and enables better decision making. - Modes of decision-making
An outline of decision making modes. It is really helpful to be clear with one another, ahead of making a decision, which mode you are adopting for a particular decision - Effective confrontation
Simon Sinek shares the Feelings, Behaviour, Impact (FBI) approach to confrontation - Estimating cost of delay
Charles Lambdin on the value of estimating costs of delay and advice on combatting our natural over confidence. - Measuring engineering productivity
Excellent guidance on making decisions about what to measure about engineering productivity in Chapter 7 of the Software Engineering at Google book - The danger of avoiding conflict
Patrick Lencioni reminds us that we can't have commmitment without conflict - How to disagree with someone more powerful than you
Amy Gallo offers clear practical advice on disagreeing more effectively
Recommended links about decision making
Recommended books, articles, sites, talks and podcasts about decision making.