Chapter Six
Choose your route – Evaluate your alternatives
It’s usually not possible to pursue all alternatives; at least not simultaneously. Many of the important decisions we face are forks in the road, where choosing one path precludes us from pursuing others that might also be attractive. So, after having thought divergently to create potential alternatives, let’s think convergently to identify the alternative that would best help us achieve our goals, given limited resources.
Chapter 5 helped us prepare that decision by clarifying what matters to us in an alternative. Because we typically want more than one thing – say, a solution that is ...
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