I’m becoming increasingly more convinced that where one adds the most value in a workplace is not a set of skills one possesses, but the ability to make reasonable decisions faced with imperfect information, which is really just three things:

• An ability to see the possible outcomes (ability to visualize; one something you may call creativity)
• An ability to enumerate the value and the possible risks of each
• An ability to evaluate these trade-offs

In other words, everything there is to a responsibility is the ability to make decisions and each decision is simply an output of an evaluation function of all the pros and cons of all the possibilities.

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