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Joseph L. Badaracco’s book, Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work, suggests asking five basic questions to help make hard decisions when the analysis, facts and data fail to provide a clear answer.

1. What are the net consequences? That is, if you have to make a decision that has a lot of uncertainty and significant human stakes,

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Authors: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Fox | Source: A Harvard professor on the five questions to ask when facing tough decisions | Subject: Decision Making Questions

1. Why now?
2. Is this a reversible or an irreversible decision?
3. If irreversible, what makes it so? Can I break it down into multiple smaller decisions, some of which may be reversible?
4. What factors won’t change in 10 years? How much of our plan is optimizing for durable traits versus betting on new trends and traits that will change?
5. How do we know we are succeeding in our goal?
6. What are

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Author: Kintan Brahmbhatt | Source: 35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly | Subject: Decision Making Questions

To audit their decision process, leaders can ask some simple questions:

• What shortcuts are we employing?
• Is the team converging prematurely on a single alternative?
• Are experts exerting undue influence?
• Have we drawn the appropriate analogy?
• Are we engaging in herd behavior?

Source:
Making difficult decisions in turbulent times
by Michael A. Roberto
Ivey Business Journal, May/June 2003

Subject: Decision Making Questions

Scholar and ethics consultant Laura Nash suggests twelve questions that can help leaders avoid the mind game of over simplifying. The following questions may raise ethical issues not otherwise considered, or help generate a variety of “out of the box” alternatives. Before settling on a solution, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Have I specified the problem accurately?
2. How would I describe the problem if I were

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Subject: Decision Making Questions

Scholar and ethics consultant Laura Nash suggests twelve questions that can help leaders avoid the mind game of over simplifying. The following questions may raise ethical issues not otherwise considered, or help generate a variety of “out of the box” alternatives. Before settling on a solution, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Have I specified the problem accurately?
2. How would I describe the problem if I were on

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Subject: Decision Making Questions