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tradeoffs

Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 3:01pm

What you're willing to give up to get what you really want. Conventional goal-setting is often tedious, useless make-work because it never goes deep into tradeoffs. Boris (no relation to Johnson) is a goal-setting process that works as a forcing function for eliciting tradeoffs from individuals in teams and organizations—no surprise that it is intensely uncomfortable but much more effective in making organizations more effective under conditions of uncertainty.

See also: innovation, productive discomfort, strategy, the work of uncertainty.