Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions

The quality of a decision process should be proportional to the cost of reversal, not the perceived importance. Most organizations catastrophically over-invest in reversible decisions and under-invest in irreversible ones, because they confuse the emotional weight of a decision with its actual reversibility. The meta-skill is accurately classifying which type you face before choosing how much analysis to apply.

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