Something Funny Happens on the Way to the Widget.

A good decision is one that advances you towards where you want to be.

You make a decision.

Ping! (You.)

Listening....listening....listening...

      ...   ...   ...

PING! (Your boss or your team or your client or your family or The Universe reacts.)

Hmm....Ah-ha. Adjust course to Widget: zero-two-niner degrees...

Often the speed and path of the Decision Ping and therefore our measurement of the distance between us and where we want to be is distorted by passing through media of varying density.

Mostly other people.

Which is the Big Revelation of good decision making; namely:

Good decision making teaches more about where we are in relation to others, than our distance to our Widget.

It's all about the Widget.

It's never about the Widget.