Reversible and irreversible decisions

A decision that can be undone deserves a light process; one that cannot deserves a heavy one. Treating them alike slows everything.

• Decision-making
• Leadership

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  Day 2 begins when a company manages to proxies and treats decisions as one-way doors

  Check whether the metric is still the goal or has become the goal, and reserve the heavy process for decisions that cannot be undone.

  Product and leadership questions, assessing a large company's culture, and deciding how much process a decision deserves.

  From Amazon's 2016 letter to shareholders (Day 1) · Jeff Bezos