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12 CRUCIAL QUESTIONS TO BETTER DECISION-MAKING:

Here are 12 crucial factors that consultant Nathan Magnuson says you should consider in decision-making:

* Are you the right person to make the decision?
* What outcomes are you directly responsible for as it relates to the decision? It’s crucial to maintain clarity on what you are trying to accomplish.[i.e. = "what are you solving for"?]
* What is more important to the boss?
* What would be most consistent with the organization’s core values?
* What would delight the customers the most?
* What is the most ideal long-term decision?
* What does the data say?
* What are the benefits? Consider primary and secondary benefits, as well as those that will be immediate and others that will lag.
* What are the costs?
* What are the risks?
* What solution is the most simple to implement? “All things being equal,” he says, “always be biased in favour of the simple option.”
* What will be the easiest to communicate?