How Better Decision-Making Boosts Your Productivity
One of the fundamental time management skills that I teach to my individual clients and workshop participants is decision-making. Specifically, we discuss the decision-making skill of prioritization.
In my conversation with Dr. Somik Raha, he explained that in decision science, there are two parts: 1) how do we actually make decisions and 2) how do we make better decisions. This might be a very dry topic to some, but Dr. Raha broke down decision-making into six steps, beginning with being very clear on the question you’re asking yourself before even attempting to come up with a list of possible answers. Here’s an overview of the six steps in decision-making:
1 Be absolutely clear on what the question is that requires this decision.
2 Create a list of options.
3 What information do you know and is it relevant?
- What are your values on which you’ll base this decision?
- How do you integrate this with logic?
- Commit to action.
For all of the details about what goes into better decision-making and prioritization, watch the video here:
Connect with Dr. Somik Raha:
Book – Invaluable: Achieving Clarity on Value – https://amzn.to/424riLR
Website (get info) – https://invaluablebook.org/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/somikraha/
X / Twitter – https://www.x.com/SomikRaha
About Dr. Somik Raha:
Dr. Somik Raha has a Bachelors in Computer Science from Bangalore Institute of Technology and a Masters and PhD in Decision Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD dissertation was titled “Achieving Clarity on Value”; his book is a continuation of his research. Somik lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he actively explores the intersections between technology, philosophy, and the human experience through the lens of prioritization.
For tips on how to make better decisions about your time, check out The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer.
