Category
Decision Process
How to Use a Weighted Decision Matrix
A step-by-step method for comparing options across several criteria at once, with a fully worked three-way job-offer example and the pitfalls that quietly corrupt the result.
How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis
Why over-analysis grips us, and six practical fixes — satisficing, decision deadlines, shorter shortlists, the 70% rule, two-way doors, and good-enough thresholds — to get unstuck.
Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions: The Two-Way Door Rule
Jeff Bezos’s one-way versus two-way door framing, why reversibility should decide how much you deliberate, and practical ways to turn irreversible choices into reversible ones.
How to Run a Pre-Mortem Before a Big Decision
Gary Klein’s pre-mortem technique imagines a decision has already failed to surface hidden risks, using prospective hindsight to defeat overconfidence and groupthink. Includes a worked example.
Decision Journaling: How to Learn From Your Own Choices
A decision journal records what you thought at the moment you chose, before the outcome is known — defeating hindsight and outcome bias. Includes a copy-ready template and a sample entry.
How to Build a Weighted Decision Matrix You Haven't Secretly Rigged
A weighted decision matrix is only as honest as its weights. A worked before-and-after example, computed directly with ReDecide's own matrix tool, shows exactly how easy it is to flip a result — and four checks that catch it.
When to Decide and When to Wait: A Timing Framework
Deciding too early and deciding too late are opposite mistakes with the same root cause: no explicit plan for how much time a decision actually deserves. Two worked examples, computed with ReDecide's own timing planner, show how to set that plan deliberately instead of guessing.
Reversible vs Irreversible: Matching Your Decision Effort to the Real Stakes
"Match your effort to the stakes" is easy to say and hard to apply. A set of worked comparisons, computed with ReDecide's own timing planner, turns the reversibility half of that rule into an actual number of days rather than a vague impression.