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Decision-making

Burning Fires

Triage for the problems competing for one team's attention.

5 minFramework
Personal effectiveness

Getting Things Done

Get commitments out of your head and into a system you trust enough to stop remembering.

8 minFramework
Decision-making

Inversion Thinking

Asking what would guarantee failure, and then removing the answers.

5 minHeuristic
Decision-making

Lead Bullets

When a rival is better at what you sell, a partnership or a rebrand won't close the gap.

6 minHeuristic
Personal effectiveness

Most Important Tasks

Pick the few things that would make today a success, and do them first.

5 minHeuristic
Strategy

Opportunity Cost

The cost of a choice is the best thing you gave up to make it.

4 minHeuristic
Leading people

SCARF

Five social drivers that decide whether a reasonable decision lands as a threat.

9 minFramework
Decision-making

Second-Order Thinking

Asking what happens after the thing you intended happens.

5 minHeuristic
Personal effectiveness

The Eisenhower Matrix

Whether something matters and whether it's due are different questions.

7 minFramework
Personal effectiveness

The Pareto Principle

A small share of the causes usually produces most of the effect.

5 minHeuristic
Decision-making

Two-Way Door Decisions

Match how carefully you decide to what it would cost to change your mind.

5 minHeuristic
Org design

Barrels and Ammunition

Output rises with the people who can carry work the whole way, not with headcount.

6 minHeuristic
Decision-making

Double Diamond

Separate finding the problem from solving it, and do each in two movements.

6 minFramework
Strategy

Jobs to Be Done

People hire something to make progress, and whatever else gets hired is the competition.

7 minFramework
Collection · 5 concepts

Transactional Analysis

A theory of what happens between two people in an exchange.

  • Ego States
  • Transactions and Crossed Transactions
  • Strokes
  • Life Positions
  • The Drama Triangle