I was talking about mistakes in my last post and I said I might look at bad decisions. Thinking about thinking I have made bad decisions because I did not wait to find out more information, but I also gone off to find more information, only to regret not making the decision early. Oh dear, it sounds like deciding whether to make a decision is in itself is a decision, so even avoiding a decision involves making a decision to avoid the decision. The only way to avoid that is to avoid deciding to avoid the decision, but that means … Continue reading The anatomy of a bad decision

I am an agile guy now so I believe in things like psychological safety, “safe to fail” and trusting people. Just like all agile coaches, I am a nice guy and I believe everyone else is too. So I let people try new things, they make mistakes and we are pretty happy about it all, since we know mistakes are a great source of learning. Of course there is a small blast radius where the mistakes led to some human suffering but that is cool because we all learned from the experience. But in the old days I did a … Continue reading Safe to fail, naughty or just a mistake