All tagged Better decision making
The “Armchair Quarterback” really is a thing.
In fact, it’s alive and well in each one of us. Time and again, we’ve all taken on that role in one form or another. Whether it’s politics, business or sports, we’ve watched, listened and assessed, and then provided our own commentary on what the answer should have been.
Does consensus = compromise?
Conventional thinking touts the need to “get to consensus” as we make decisions. But is ‘consensus’ the right answer?
In concept, consensus makes a lot of sense.
More often than not, we tend to judge how a particular situation will turn out based on how easily that outcome comes to mind, which is influenced by what we’ve seen, experienced or heard most recently.
This is called the Availability heuristic or Availability bias, which suggests we weigh our judgements towards the most recent news.
How many times have we done that?
We wake up in the middle of the night, and an issue we've been grappling with grabs hold. And we begin to turn it over in our heads. And over. And over. And over.
