The One Thing to Win at the Game of Business: Master the Art of Decisionship -- The Key to Making Better, Faster Decisions

Introduction ix

Part I: Decisionship in theory 1

1 What is decisionship? 3

2 The anatomy of decisions 15

3 The entrepreneurial eye 23

Part II: Overview of the decision-making process 33

4 A powerful decision-making process 35

5 Step 1 of decisionship — define 41

6 Step 2 of decisionship — assess 63

7 Step 3 of decisionship — decide 79

Part III: How to use foresight to build a solid decision-making foundation 89

8 The six lenses of clarity 91

9 The passion lens 99

10 The philosophy lens 115

11 The proficiency lens 127

12 The progress lens 141

13 The prototype lens 161

14 The plan lens 177

Part IV: How to use insight by focusing on the information you have at hand to make decisions in the present 187

15 Introducing the perpetual growth principles 189

16 Principle 1 — reduce frictions 197

17 Principle 2 — foster actuators 213

18 Principle 3 — minimise mass 227

19 Principle 4 — maximise balance 237

20 Perpetual growth principles in practice 247

Part V: How to use hindsight to develop perspective to reflect on your own results 253

21 Developing hindsight 255

22 Building a decision bank 265

Part VI: Decisionship in practice 275

23 Practising the art of decisionship 277

24 The decisionship accelerator 285

25 Decisionship in the real world 295

Conclusion 311

Appendix: the decisionship accelerator 315

Index 317