Some thoughts on decision making

Jason Yip
4 min readNov 12, 2022

How decisions are made is more important than who makes them

“Wow, everything about that decision is wrong… but at least we have a clearly accountable decision-maker.”
How decisions are made is more important than who makes them

Higher decision quality is about data, reasoning, insight, perspective, consideration of alternatives, consideration of timing and context, etc. It has nothing to do with who makes the decision.

If a decision is made well, it doesn’t really matter who makes it… except in terms of…

Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl