Chapter Eight
Score points
Articulate your criteria and make sound trade-offs
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Bill Gates
BENEFITS OF THIS MENTAL TACTIC
Making the right decisions between several options is never easy. But good decision making starts even further upstream – with the generation of valid alternatives. Here we introduce techniques to come up with options to choose from, go through the various types of criteria, and offer several scoring and ranking methods to make sound decisions.
ARTICULATE YOUR CRITERIA AND MAKE SOUND TRADE-OFFS
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