Decisions Over Decimals

Index

• Page numbers followed by f and t refer to figures and tables, respectively.

• Action:
  • for decisions to have value, 125
  • driving, 200
  • informing, compelling vs., 139–140, 202
  • transitioning from analysis to (see Synthesis)
• Active listening, 8
• Advanced analytics, 194
• Agent‐based models, 191
• Aggregating questions about problems, 25–29, 26t, 27f, 28f, 29t
• Agile decision‐making, 17, 163, 165, 169
• AI (see Artificial intelligence)
• Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 33–34
• Allocating time, 108–110
• Alternatives, distribution of, 193–194
• Amazon:
  • decision reversibility assessment of, 115
  • decision types of, 153
  • leadership principles of, 172f, 173
  • PR/FAQs of, 46–48
• Ambiguity:
  • in communication, 133
  • in decision moment, 118–121
• Analysis paralysis, 52, 104
• Analysis phase, 144
• Analytical mindset, 178
• Anscombe's Quartet, 60–62, 61f
• Answers:
  • developing the need for, 2
  • precision answering, 3–6
  • in Socratic method, 3–4
• Apgar score, 110–111
• Approximation(s), 73–87
  • accuracy, 74, 83–84
  • art of guesstimating in, 76–78
  • becoming comfortable with, 82–86
  • in context, 82–85
  • first‐order, 76–77
  • guesstimation in QI framework, 86–87
  • learning, 76–78
  • power of, 74– 76
  • in practice, 78–80
  • statistical significance vs., 85–86
  • why guesstimation works, 80–82
• Archetype personalities, 129–131 (see also Audience)
• Artificial intelligence (AI), 185, 186, 194–196
  • AI Risk Management Framework for Winter 2022/23, 194
• Ask step (IWIK process), 19–21 (see also Powerful questions/questioning)
• Assessing data, 51–64 ...