Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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I found something good within all this political news recently. Before you click away, let me explain. A study was done that showed political partisans ignored facts in favor of information that supported their existing views. In fact, while watching a debate, areas in their brain affecting emotions became very active, while areas of the brain involved in reasoning were simply inactive. Partisans get high on their own supply! The longer a debate goes, the more a partisan can become entrenched in his or her view.
What does this have to do with managing your project? It shouldn’t just apply to politics. Any stakeholder you work with can have a strong belief in a strategy, business practice, application, and so on. Your best bet to get agreement from a decision-making group will be to hit them hard with your justification quickly and not allow them days or weeks to discuss it. Sounds like a high pressure vacation condo sales pitch, but you know what I mean. The point is to get agreements quickly from stakeholders before opinions harden irrationally.
Posted on: April 23, 2008 09:16 PM |
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