Archive for June, 2011
New Media
“Six in 10 Americans regularly use the Internet for news.”
Related:
* Newseum (Map)
* Why the #iPad is not (and was not meant to be) ready for the public kiosk.
Follow-Through
So it seems that some companies pay more importance to taking the right decision than doing the follow-through. I suspect that more often than not, you can make a “wrong” decision right in its follow-through. Doing so, along with setting up few arbitrary constraints, also lessens the often debilitating and sometimes paralyzing effects of decision-making in an over-abundance of choices, no matter how much you break the process down. And it increases the chances of a “command presence” which helps in the follow-through. Also, it opens up the possibility of more than one decision being right (or wrong, but don’t think about that too much because you’d never know until later anyway), especially since information relevant to decision-making is almost always still trickling in. Quite unlike in the academia where often all relevant information can be known via some analytical processes and the “correctness” of decision-making therefore mostly rests on how you apply those processes and put their results together, in “actuality” you can often never fully know all that is relevant and therefore have to act on incomplete imprecise implicit data points and shifting goal posts or evolving requirements. But by making the follow-through important, you end up taking more shots and while that decreases your batting average, it increases the probability of more home runs.
Updated: Aug 2011
* The Problem with Perfection
* The Cure for Analysis Paralysis
