The Decision Papers

  • The Decision Papers — The Admission Gate: When a Trigger Earns the Right to Interrupt. Banner with a line drawing of a gate structure.

    I.5 — The Admission Gate: When a Trigger Earns the Right to Interrupt

    “I have made it a rule never to have my letters opened until three days after their receipt, and I find that by that time nine-tenths of the letters have answered themselves.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Most leaders think a decision begins when options appear. It begins earlier, the moment something claims the right to interrupt…

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    I.1 — Many Sciences, One Question: Why Do We Choose?

    “I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.” — Terence, Heauton Timorumenos You remember your life in peaks. The promotion. The crisis. The betrayal. The breakthrough. But almost none of those peaks was built by a single heroic choice; they were built by a long chain of small selections, the defaults and the…

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