Your Difficult Decision

Think of a real decision you are currently avoiding or struggling with — this canvas is for that decision only.

Name the decision

Write the decision in one honest sentence. Not 'we need to improve X' — the actual choice: 'Do I leave this role / cut this product / end this relationship with a supplier?'

What's truly at stake

If this goes badly, what is the real loss — for you personally, and for your organisation? Name both.

For me

For the organisation

Sort the forces

List the reasons pushing you toward action in one zone, and the reasons pushing you to wait or avoid in the other.

Act now

Wait / avoid

How urgent is this, really?

Mark where this decision sits on the spectrum. Be honest — urgency is often exaggerated to avoid discomfort, or minimised to justify delay.

Can wait months

Must decide this week

The obvious answer

Write the answer that most people in your position would give — the safe, expected, comfortable choice.

Attack it

Now look back at step 3. What does the obvious answer from step 5 cost you — what does it ignore from your 'act now' zone, and what does it protect in your 'wait/avoid' zone?

The hidden trade-off

Using Bezos, Klein, or Grove's method, write the decision you would make if politics and sunk costs were removed. Then write the ONE word that names what you have been protecting by avoiding this decision.

Why that word?

Discuss Share your one word with a partner — does their reaction confirm it, or challenge it?

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