Decisive¶
Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2013). Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work.
Cited by¶
4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Alternative Enumeration Checklist
- Its strength is that it directly attacks narrow framing — the well-documented habit of posing decisions as "whether or not to do X" instead of "X versus the best alternative use of the same resource."
This sourceNarrow framing casts a choice as whether or not to take one option; explicitly considering opportunity costs and alternatives widens the decision frame.
- Its strength is that it directly attacks narrow framing — the well-documented habit of posing decisions as "whether or not to do X" instead of "X versus the best alternative use of the same resource."
- Failure Trigger Dashboard
- Well-chosen triggers function as tripwires
This sourceUses preselected tripwires to interrupt an ongoing course and refocus attention at a consequential threshold.
- Well-chosen triggers function as tripwires
- Reopening Trigger Review
- The classic misuse is political: a stakeholder who lost the original decision dresses a plain objection as a "trigger" to relitigate it, or — the mirror image — an inconvenient trigger is quietly disarmed when it threatens to fire.
This sourceDefines a valid tripwire by advance specification, which distinguishes it from post-hoc relitigation or selective non-enforcement.
- The classic misuse is political: a stakeholder who lost the original decision dresses a plain objection as a "trigger" to relitigate it, or — the mirror image — an inconvenient trigger is quietly disarmed when it threatens to fire.
- Update-Trigger Checkpoint
- It works like a tripwire — a pre-set condition that pulls a decision back onto the table automatically, so revisiting is the default rather than an act of will.
This sourceDefines a tripwire as a predetermined circumstance that interrupts autopilot and prompts reconsideration of a decision.
- It works like a tripwire — a pre-set condition that pulls a decision back onto the table automatically, so revisiting is the default rather than an act of will.
Verification¶
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Links previously used in the corpus¶
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- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215508/decisive-by-chip-heath-and-dan-heath/ ×2
- https://search.worldcat.org/title/decisive-how-to-make-better-choices-in-life-and-work/oclc/794040681 ×1
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