The Better Decision Project
Good decisions are rarely accidental.
Research, executive practice, military command, governance, and teaching brought together to help people and organizations make better consequential decisions under conditions of complexity.
Latest Essay
Better Thinkers Before Better Answers
Most organizations try to improve decisions by improving the quality of today’s answer. What might change if they invested instead in the capability of tomorrow’s decision-maker?
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“My goal is not to provide answers. It is to help people develop the capability to discover better answers.”
The project examines the people, practices, cultures, and systems that make good judgment more likely.
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The Library
Essays and long-form thinking organized by theme.
The Atlas
Frameworks, models, diagrams, and infographics.
The Reading Room
Books, research, and ideas that influence the work.
The Workshop
Practical tools for framing problems, deliberating well, and learning from decisions.
One question. Many disciplines.
The common denominator is not leadership. It is people making consequential decisions together.
Decision Quality · Governance · Leadership · Complexity · Mission Command · Organizational Culture · Diversity · Crisis Leadership · Judgment · Deliberation
The best decisions begin long before the moment a decision must be made.
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