No Regrets

No Regrets

We are all prone to impulsiveness at different times. Sometimes that can lead to one hell of a fun ride and other times it can lead to regret.

For a no regrets lifestyle we need to work with our tendency for impulsiveness. In Daniel Kahnemann’s book Thinking Fast and Slow he gives more than forty heuristics, where we take mental shortcuts to make a quicker decision. (Erik Johnson has a nice summary of each of them here). Kahnemann explains how each of these are by no means fool proof and suggests that we need to identify the times when we should slow down our thinking to check if the heuristic in play is valid in each case.

Risk assessment is one form of thinking slow. Taking the time to deliberate possible outcomes and their likelihood of occurrence. However, not everything needs a risk assessment. Hence, I came up with my own decision model that can be applied rapidly to any decision. I call it the MCI Decision Model.

My model checks if you have gone straight to Implementation mode without the Clarification that comes from developing and comparing a suite of options and confirms if your Motivation behind your decision is creating positive or negative blockers to your decision making.9765388482?profile=RESIZE_710xWhether you are fussing over a decision as to where to eat tonight, or a bigger decision, my MCI Decision Model will quickly test your thinking.

You can read more about it in this paper – Think it Through.

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Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.

Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].

He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.

<a href="http://www.bryanwhitefield.com">www.bryanwhitefield.com</a>

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