Proceeding quickly with reversible decisions reduces the risk of being late to market.
Mark Schwartz • War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
Gokul's S.P.A.D.E. Toolkit: How to implement Square's famous decision-making framework
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Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making. “A hierarchy isn’t responsive enough to change,” he said. “I’m still trying to get people to do occasionally what I ask. And if I was successful, maybe we wouldn’t have the right kind of company.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)
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There’s a common assumption that it’s important to know the exact right action to take before doing anything. That’s not how things are viewed at Amazon. As Jeff once said, “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake, don’t do anything new.”
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
We can represent different kinds of decisions in terms of their degrees of consequence and reversibility on a graph (see the following figure). Among these decisions, two types deserve special attention: decisions that are highly consequential and irreversible, and decisions that are inconsequential and highly reversible. When a decision is highly
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