Episode 1,997: Decisions and Doors
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Justin Su'a
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In this episode, I talk about one way and two-way doors.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,996. We're getting |
| 0:08.5 | closer to 2000. I had a buddy of mine. He's probably listening to this. He goes, what am I, |
| 0:12.4 | what am I, what am I, what am I, he asked me what I'm going to do for episode 2000. I have no |
| 0:16.6 | clue what I'm going to do. I'm probably going to do the same thing I've done the previous |
| 0:20.7 | 1,999 episodes and just keep going. But if you have any suggestions, please let me know. |
| 0:27.7 | So what I want to talk about today is Jeff Bezos and how they think at Amazon, how they think |
| 0:35.5 | about decision making. |
| 0:40.1 | And so they have two types of decisions. |
| 0:43.6 | One-way doors and two-way doors. |
| 0:50.4 | One-way doors are decisions that are consequential and nearly irreversible. They should be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. |
| 0:59.1 | The other types of decisions are two-way doors, decisions that are changeable and reversible. |
| 1:05.7 | They should be made quickly by high judgment individuals or small groups. |
| 1:09.5 | If you've made a suboptimal decision, you can reopen the door and go back through. |
| 1:15.1 | Jeff Bezos says this, quote, as organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use type 1 or one-way door decision-making processes on most decisions, including many type two, two-way door decisions. |
| 1:31.9 | So essentially what he's saying is on changeable decisions, people are using, they're going, |
| 1:41.1 | they're taking a very long time, they're careful, they're slow with decisions that they could really make right now because they're going they're taking a very long time they're careful they're slow with decisions that |
| 1:45.0 | they could really make right now because they're they're reversible the end result of this is |
| 1:50.7 | slowness unthoughtful risk aversion failure to experiment sufficiently and consequently |
| 1:56.5 | diminish innovation we'll have to figure out how to fight that tendency, close quotes. |
| 2:01.6 | So what does this mean for you? Think about the decisions you have right now. |
| 2:06.6 | Deciding if you're going to eat a cheeseburger or a hot dog should not be decided with a one-way |
| 2:13.9 | door decision-making process. It's really not that big of a deal. |
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