When it comes to decision making, deciding how to decide is the most decisive factor. Are you going to decide by yourself? Ask for advice? Let your mom decide? Or debate with your management team for hours until consensus is reached? We answer intuitively, and when our intuition fails we end up with less time, less energy, and more frustration.

Sustainable Decision Making

Brain energy is a valuable and depleting resource

Methods of Decision Making

Who’s involved in the decision and in what way?

Consensus is terrible

It is a sure way to waste a lot of energy and time for multiple people

Command

When one person commands the decision

Conclusion

Sustainable decision making is the idea of investing less of your brain energy in these decisions by both deciding less and deciding more efficiently

Consult

When one person commands the decision but collects input from others first

Vote is only useful for inconsequential decisions that influence multiple people equally, and where most options are good enough

Don’t be tempted to vote on big decisions or you’ll get mediocre results

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