{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "As a a manager no one will ever agree with every decision you make. Not the\npeople you manage, and not the people that manage you. But if you always know\nwhy you made a decision and you can articulate that decision, then you\u2019ll be\non a good footing when someone asks you, \u201cHow did you know to do that?\u201d or\n\u201cHow did you know to make **that** decision?\u201d\n\nOne of the best lessons I learned from my boss LB is that the decision is less\nimportant than the **why** of the decision. Make no mistake, bad decisions are\nbad decisions, but they are much less likely to be made if you know why you\nmade it.\n\nOnce I was able to internalize that lesson, it freed me to actually make\ndecisions.\n\nWhen faced with a decision, I tend to ask these questions:\n\n  1. What do I know?\n  2. How do I know it (i.e. how confident am I in the information I know)?\n  3. What do I gain by waiting for more information?\n  4. What\u2019s the worst that happens if I make the wrong decision?\n  5. What\u2019s the worst that happens if I make no decision now?\n  6. Who can I talk to about this decision?\n\nHaving answers to these questions doesn\u2019t guarantee that my decision will be\nright, but it does help me to understand why I\u2019m making the decision that I\u2019m\nmaking. It will also help me to explain the decision later on if needed.\n\nOne of the things I try to tell the people I work with is this:\n\n> > The decision itself is less important than why you made the decision. If\n> you don\u2019t know why you made a decision, then you shouldn\u2019t be making the\n> decision yet.\u201d\n\nKnow **why** you made a decision and you\u2019ll be better equipped **to make** the\ndecision.\n\n", "2017-08-24", "the-why-of-a-decision", "As a a manager no one will ever agree with every decision you make. Not the\npeople you manage, and not the people that manage you. But if you always know\nwhy you made a decision and you can articulate that decision, then you\u2019ll be\non a good footing \u2026\n\n", "The why of a decision", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2017/08/24/the-why-of-a-decision/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["the-why-of-a-decision"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7698759436607361}