361: On Decision Engineering and Evaluating Quality instead of Outcomes with Michelle Florendo

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Feb 11, 2024

Michelle Florendo, decision engineer and executive coach, discusses the importance of decision-making. Explore the concept of decision engineering and its structured approach to problem-solving. Learn about the attractive concerning table framework for decision-making. Discover the role of intuition in decision-making and how it complements rational processes. Explore the concept of grieving the loss of possibilities and how decision-making is empowering. Gain insights into making better decisions through decision engineering and accessing additional resources.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Decision Engineering and Structured Approaches to Solving Problems

01:48 • 6min

Utilizing the Attractive Concerning Table for Decision-Making

08:11 • 2min

Intuition and Rationality in Decision-Making

10:03 • 4min

Grieving the Loss of Possibility and the Empowerment of Decision Making

14:08 • 2min

Making Better Decisions through Decision Engineering

16:37 • 16min

Good decision-making is not about omniscience or clairvoyance—it's more about resilience, according to today’s guest, decision engineer Michelle Florendo. “Decision-making is harder than ever before, and it's not your fault,” Michelle says. “People feel like they ‘should just know’ how to decide.”

More About Michelle: Michelle Florendo is a decision engineer and executive coach who is passionate about teaching people how to make decisions with less stress and more clarity, from the small, consistent microdecisions over time that governs how you show up as a leader to the big macrodecisions you make about what direction to take next in business or life. Over the past decade, she has shown hundreds of driven professionals how to use the principles of decision science to grow their impact and fulfillment. She served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin's altMBA, was a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and helps train new coaches as a Faculty Coach at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. Michelle helped redesign the decision-making module in Stanford's famous Designing Your Life course and has taught courses on decision making for Stanford Continuing Studies, and hosts the podcast Ask a Decision Engineer.

🌟 4 Key Takeaways

Saying no to something “good” — What makes it good? How is it delivering the things you want? It might look good on paper to your peers or family or to society, but does it still work for you?
Every decision has three components: objectives (what is it you care about?), options (what are you choosing among), and information (about how those options might play out).
Intuition is the sum of our internal wisdom: It’s not separate; rather, it’s a quick synthesis of our inputs and rational processes. If you can’t explain a decision, remind yourself that “I just haven’t built the bridge . . . yet.”

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Tune into multiple sources of data: head+heart+body. Pro-con lists tend to mostly activate rational thinking. As an alternative, try an attractive-concerning table. Draw a 2x2 with a column for each option. What is attractive about each option? What is concerning? Look for themes that bubble up.

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361: On Decision Engineering and Evaluating Quality instead of Outcomes with Michelle Florendo

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