Separate Decision Quality from Outcome Quality
Distinguish a good decision process from a lucky or unlucky result.
A good outcome can come from a bad decision, and a bad outcome can follow a good one. Why the distinction matters Decision Quality treats a decision as a process with inspectable parts. The result matters, but it is not the only evidence. When teams judge only by outcome, they reward guessing that got lucky and punish disciplined bets that faced bad external conditions. The practical move is to review the decision before the outcome is fully known. Ask whether the frame is specific, whether alternatives are meaningfully different, whether information is relevant enough, whether trade-offs are explicit, whether values…
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