McChrystal: Determine decision deadlines by back-planning from required execution time
Stanley McChrystal · #132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership · Mar 8, 2022 · at 25:39
Retired General Stanley McChrystal discusses decision-making heuristics under uncertainty with Shane Parrish on The Knowledge Project.
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“Your one technique that's worked very well for me is you start with what action would need to be executed to be effective. And then you back plan and figure out how long it would take to implement that action. And so that's your decision point. You must make the decision, which gives you time to propagate the decision out to everybody, and then time to actually act on it, and you go by the point the last possible time you can make that decision and have an effective outcome.”
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