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Decision Making

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Invoking consistency can help make your startup endure because it provides a mental break from choosing between options and reconsidering past decisions.

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Everyone deserves to work freely. When you eliminate work schedules altogether, then all employees are forced to make good decisions about how they spend their time…

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…people take ownership of the work they do because they have the power to decide what is best for them.

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…treat employees like adults by giving them freedom to decide how best to get their work done and hold them accountable for their results, not the hours they work.

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…no matter how collaborative our organizations, someone still needs to choreograph the players and make final decisions.

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Rather than cutting their losses, most people will throw good money after bad in hopes of recouping those losses and justifying their original decision.

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Often, when standing at the top of the pyramid, we are faced not with a black-or-white, go-or-no-go decision but with gray choices whose consequences are shrouded.

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The first steps along the path are morally ambiguous, and the right decision is not always clear. We make an early, apparently inconsequential decision, and then we justify it to reduce the ambiguity of the choice.

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The daily, dissonance-reducing distortions of memory help us make sense of the world and our place in it, protecting our decisions and beliefs.

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Marriage… is the greatest two-way decision of most people’s lives, and couples are enormously invested in making it work.

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