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Decision log
Stop relitigating the same decision every quarter.
Who this is for: Organizations where past decisions get revisited because nobody remembers the reasoning.
What is inside
- The seven fields that make a decision findable later
- Where to keep it so people actually read it
- How to log a decision that was made badly, without blame
- A worked example with real reasoning captured
One thing most people get wrong
Record the reasoning, not just the outcome. The outcome tells the future what you did; the reasoning tells it whether the decision still applies.
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