The Right To Choose
Posted 02-10-2010 at 04:59 AM by roydaya
Management is all about choices, success in management depends on good choices. Roy Daya
CRISIS! Your team finds a possible solution and you have to decide if to implement it or not whichever you decide you must decide NOW!
You know you cannot ignore the crisis but the risk of the proposed solution seems almost as high if it goes wrong
What should you do?
Step 1 Getting Choices
When you are faced with only one solution you have no real choice. Step 1 is to get some more choices.
Sometimes you start with several choices but most of them get narrowed-down almost immediately. At the end you end up with the least bad choice as the only alternative to doing nothing.
You can only choose when you have more than one plausible choice!
Step 2 Getting GOOD Choices
To get good choices you need a larger choice pool to choose from.
You need 2 kinds of people on your team:
Creative and fast thinking people to come up with many creative choices and alternatives.
Deep thinkers to sort the potentially Good choices from the ones that are not viable.
Step 3 Evolution
Create at-least 3 teams.
Each one will mature a solution with details and scenarios and will challenge the other solutions.
Bring each team as a consulting team to help the second team answer criticisms of the third team to their solution.
Make each team present the pros and cons of their solution and weather it is a real viable solution to the problem.
Step 4 Exposure
Bring in a panel of experts and let them meet each team and:
Improve the choice
Spot hidden risks
Rank choice according to their experience and expertise.
Step 5 Make a decision
Review the summary of the 3 or more GOOD choices and make a decision.
You might decide to not implement any of them or to try implementing a hybrid solution.
The choice is yours.
CRISIS! Your team finds a possible solution and you have to decide if to implement it or not whichever you decide you must decide NOW!
You know you cannot ignore the crisis but the risk of the proposed solution seems almost as high if it goes wrong
What should you do?
Step 1 Getting Choices
When you are faced with only one solution you have no real choice. Step 1 is to get some more choices.
Sometimes you start with several choices but most of them get narrowed-down almost immediately. At the end you end up with the least bad choice as the only alternative to doing nothing.
You can only choose when you have more than one plausible choice!
Step 2 Getting GOOD Choices
To get good choices you need a larger choice pool to choose from.
You need 2 kinds of people on your team:
Creative and fast thinking people to come up with many creative choices and alternatives.
Deep thinkers to sort the potentially Good choices from the ones that are not viable.
Step 3 Evolution
Create at-least 3 teams.
Each one will mature a solution with details and scenarios and will challenge the other solutions.
Bring each team as a consulting team to help the second team answer criticisms of the third team to their solution.
Make each team present the pros and cons of their solution and weather it is a real viable solution to the problem.
Step 4 Exposure
Bring in a panel of experts and let them meet each team and:
Improve the choice
Spot hidden risks
Rank choice according to their experience and expertise.
Step 5 Make a decision
Review the summary of the 3 or more GOOD choices and make a decision.
You might decide to not implement any of them or to try implementing a hybrid solution.
The choice is yours.
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