Designing Better Systems: Quiz on Clear Thinking

Treat decisions as experiments to iterate on

Make decisions only by committee consensus

Rely solely on intuition without data

Wait for perfect information before acting

Avoid linking actions to outcomes

Rely on high-level mission statements only

Define specific hypotheses and measurable metrics

Prioritize long wishlists without deadlines

Assuming others share your goals by default

Overfitting to past experiences instead of testing

Believing in random chance exclusively

Preferring complex solutions for simple problems

How will we measure whether this change actually works?

Will this make stakeholders feel comfortable?

Can the change be explained in an hour-long meeting?

Do people like the idea at first glance?

Commit full resources immediately to prove confidence

Only use past successful templates without adaptation

Run small, time-boxed pilots before full rollout

Avoid any rollout until consensus emerges

Only celebrating successful launches publicly

Relying on memory and informal updates

Documenting assumptions, experiments, and outcomes transparently

Encouraging secrecy around failed tests

That small teams can't innovate effectively

That breakthrough ideas must be perfect before testing

That iteration decreases credibility

That only expensive tools create insight

Put the decision to a prolonged vote

Design a measurable, short experiment to resolve the disagreement

Remove the feature entirely to avoid conflict

Default to leadership's intuition without testing