Make Better Decisions Faster, Checklists That Get Results, Feeling Overwhelmed?, How Our Bodies Fight Infections
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Business
Make Better Decisions Faster – Great 7-point checklist to help you and your people make better decisions. Adapted from “A Checklist for Making Faster, Better Decisions” by Erik Larson.
Setting goals is inspirational, but making great decisions is what gets goals accomplished. Studies show that effective decision making practices increase the number of good decisions a team makes by 6x and cuts failure rates in half. Those kind of results make the effort worth it. Help your team make better decisions so your organization can reach your goals by using this checklist.
- Write down five company goals that will be impacted by the decision. This helps you avoid the rationalization trap of making up reasons for your choices later.
- Write down at least three realistic alternatives.
- Write down the most important information you are missing.
- Write down the impact your decision will have a year from now.
- Get buy-in from a team of at least two (but no more than six) stakeholders. Hearing different perspectives reduces your bias, but bigger groups have diminishing returns.
- Write down what was decided as well as why and how much the team supports the decision. This increases commitment and helps you measure results.
- Schedule a follow-up in a month or two to make course corrections.
How to Build Checklists That Deliver Results – For a checklist to deliver results, it must be used – all the time! Click here to find out how to build checklists that work.
Health
What Makes You Feel Sick – Apparently it is something called Cytokines! Fascinating look at how our bodies fight an infection. What an amazing creation our bodies are. Very cool 5 minute video here.
Life, Fun, Whatever!
Life a Little Overwhelming? – We can all get overwhelmed by life on occasion. We want comfort, we want rest – and we need both of those. But, the comfortable places in life are not where we grow. We are given the gift of challenges in our life to grow us and to grow us closer to God. This video is one of my go to’s when I need some motivation to push through the hard times.
The title of the video is “Lift That S**t or Die Trying”, so you know it is not a video you’d play in church. But, if you can see through the crassness, there is a powerful spiritual message. Our struggles are a gift, they make us stronger, they help us lean on the amazing strength of our heavenly father. Worthy 2-minute watch if you need some motivation.
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