When it comes to making decisions associated with a given opportunity, one mistaken assumption people frequently make is to think that they need immediate resolution on every decision—right now! Very rarely is this assumption true. We need a way to identify where our attention should be focused, however, and where we can defer our attention to avoid the inefficiency of that way of thinking.
Solving a problem usually involves breaking that problem down into useful categories of information. I call this process partitioning . Before ...
