Start a work decision journal
Start a work decision journal
A simple practice with compound ROI
To begin our exploration of how to improve our decision game and get better at hard calls, let's begin with a simple practice that has enormous ROI over time.
Start a work decision journal today.
When you make a change or decision today, do these three things:
(1) Jot down 3-4 sentences: what the change is, what you hope happens, and any notable concerns or open questions.
(2) Put this in a timestamped log of decisions. To take it to the next level and drive team-wide clarity, turn it into a Slack channel to build a knowledge record about key decisions (thanks to Adam Judelson for this team suggestion).
(3) Set a task to revisit the decision in e.g. 3 or 6 months. Closing the loop with the self-review is what completes your decision learning loop.
Do this consistently, and watch improvements in your thinking process compound quarter by quarter, year after year. And you know what they say about compounding... (get it working for you!)
Brilliant and Simple- The journal is a practice to do what we often don’t do for ourselves… by reflecting on our work we can distance ourselves from our repetitive roles- and develop a conversation with ourselves making us more effective as we return to what we do. Decisions become faster and better over this practice.