If you can undo it easily, decide fast. Save the long debates for the stuff you can’t take back.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Decisions differ mainly in whether they are reversible, and treating them all as equally serious wastes an enormous amount of time. Anything you can undo is best decided quickly, since the information you want will arrive faster by doing it than by thinking about it. The irreversible ones deserve the slow careful process.

Sort your pending decisions into those two piles before working on any of them. Clear the reversible ones this week with fast calls. Then give the remaining ones the time you just saved.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which easy decision have you turned into a long debate?

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