There are times when you know you have deep intuition about an important decision, but really no data to prove whether you are right or not.
I have been there, and I am sure you must have been too.
So, what can we do, especially in cases where one has to convince the boss about certain decisions and you know for sure that the boss doesn’t care about data, but just his/her opinion.
Sharing with you, key atomic ideas from the book Build by Tony Fadell
You make hundreds of tiny decisions every day, but then there are the critical ones, the ones where you’re trying to predict the future, the ones that will put a lot of resources on the line. In those instances, it’s important to realize what kind of decision you’re faced with:
Data-driven: You can acquire, study, and debate facts and numbers that will allow you to be fairly confident in your choice. These decisions are relatively easy to make and defend and most people on the team can agree on the answer.
Opinion-driven: You have to follow your gut and your vision for what you want to do, without the benefit of sufficient data to guide you or back you up. These decisions are always hard and always questioned—after all, everyone has an opinion.
But data alone doesn’t help solve an opinion-based problem.
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