Golden Opportunities · The record · Component
The review
What actually happened, checked later — uncomfortable and the only thing that calibrates.
The deliverable
What it is
Reviewing declines is the uncomfortable half and the informative one. What happened to the opportunities the organisation did not take is available and rarely looked at.
The pattern across several decisions is worth more than any individual one: systematic over-caution or over-enthusiasm is correctable once visible.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The judgement
Whether the decision was sound given what was known.
3 attributes: Decision quality · Outcome · Reason
LearnThe pattern
What the record says across several decisions.
3 attributes: Pattern · Decisions reviewed · Correction
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A good decision can turn out badly and a bad one well. Assess against the reasoning, not the outcome.
The other components in the record
The decisions
What was taken and what was declined, with the reasoning — the declines being the more informative half.
LearnThe expectation
What was expected to happen, recorded at the time — because expectations reconstructed afterwards match whatever occurred.
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