Thinking about this recently: decisiveness is an orthogonal quality to decision analysis, but yet contributes to overall decision quality.
We see a lot of people talking about improving decision quality through things like Bayesian thinking. Fewer talk about decisiveness.
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I suppose I should elaborate.
It’s one thing to use Bayesian updating and other fancy frameworks to come to a decision.
Let’s say you decide to fire a guy, after a few of weeks of analysis.
It is quite another to actually take action. Firing is hard. You may delay for weeks.
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this is a really good point- I feel like I've got the most utility lately from using mindfulness or CBT-based tools to deal with emotional hangups and blocks on execution (as opposed to doing extra analysis)
I don't see that discussed enough in popular decision science
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Same here! And action generates more information, so often removing hangups that get in the way of action often result in better outcomes overall, instead of getting lost in one’s head.
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