DecisionBot
Need help making a decision? DecisionBot can help you make a good choice for our company and clients.
Need help making a decision? DecisionBot can help you make a good choice for our company and clients.
When faced with a decision, ask yourself, “Is it a one-way or two-way door?”
One-way door decisions must be made slowly and very carefully.
Two-way door decisions should be made quickly.
Jeff Bezos explained the difference between decisions that are one-way and two-way doors in a letter to Amazon’s shareholders:
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. But most decisions aren’t like that – they are changeable, reversible – they’re two-way doors. If you’ve made a suboptimal Type 2 decision, you don’t have to live with the consequences for that long. You can reopen the door and go back through. Type 2 decisions can and should be made quickly by high judgment individuals or small groups.