Five Steps To Better Decisionmaking – From The CIA

When I saw the Fast Company piece, A Former CIA Executive’s Advice On How To Make Hard Decisions, I was hooked. How does the CIA make decisions anyway? The article highlights the work of Phillip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and author of The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly – a book that purports to having an executive decisionmaking methodology for "solving complex problems quickly." It's a five-component decisionmaking model:

#1. Find the real question – You can only make the right decision if . . .