In his recent post “To accept or to decline: mapping life’s little dilemmas using IBIS“, Kailash Awati provides a nice case study of using mapping to make a significant personal decision. Interestingly, the “little dilemma” in the case study is just the same kind of issue that was facing Joseph Priestley when he wrote to Benjamin Franklin [...]
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How to think about a job offer
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation, Moral algebra on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Draft Introduction to Decision Mapping Book
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Decision Mapping Book, Deliberation, Moral algebra on October 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’m currently working on a book on decision mapping (and more generally, deliberative decision making), tentatively called Draw the Right Conclusion!. I’ll be periodically releasing draft chapters. First cab off the rank is the Introduction. Comments and suggestions most welcome. Here are the opening paragraphs: In late 1772 Joseph Priestley was wrestling with a [...]
Boards sharing arguments
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Wisdom of Crowds on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two recent publications suggest the Boards can improve their decision making by using structured techniques to improve information sharing.
What Donna Should Do…
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Julie Garland Mclellan has posted another of her Director’s Dilemmas. This time I had the interesting task of coming up with one of the three “answers” or commentaries, and used decision mapping to derive my recommendations. Here is the map: Click on the image or here to view the zoomable pdf file. Transcribing the [...]
Board deliberations – white paper summary available
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now available: Enhancing Board Decisions with Decision Mapping (pdf) Boards can improve their effectiveness by refining their decision-making processes. To this end we recommend adoption of decision mapping to assist individual Directors to appreciate the logical structure of Board decisions, thereby enabling them to participate more effectively in Boardroom debates. Specifically, Management create decision maps [...]
What is decision mapping?
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A brief overview of decision mapping, in a question-and-answer format
Mapping Directors’ Dilemmas
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is well known that every issue of the Harvard Business Review includes a case study, an interesting business situation calling for a decision, with three expert commentaries. The decision mapping methodology fits these case studies very well, as I illustrated in a previous post. Every month Julie Garland McLellan, an Australian consultant to company directors [...]
Chaotic deliberation
Posted in Decision mapping, Deliberation on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Comic writer Danny Katz illustrates the kind of chaos that so often goes on in our minds as we try to make decisions: Dizzy with salt-hypertension, I froze before this great plastic-bottled Red Sea, overwhelmed by the choices, staging a whole National Water Commission in my head: Do I want Natural Water? Will it be [...]
Board decision making – Draft Whitepaper
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Geoff Williams and I have started circulating a draft version of a whitepaper Improving Board Deliberations: The Role of Decision Mapping. We intend to release a final (“1.0″) version in about a month, and are keen to receive feedback, especially from folks with direct experience of board-level decision making. Download (pdf)
Simple but not easy
Posted in Argument Mapping, Decision mapping, Hypothesis mapping, Mapping, Thinking on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“As I have said many times, it is simple, but not easy.” – Warren Buffett. Buffett is of course talking about investment, but the same seems to me to be true of mapping (whether of the decision, argument or hypothesis variants). The principles are simple enough. What for example could be simpler to state and [...]
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