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Ten years ago, from a routine search engine, most topics would yield less than one million results. Today…hundreds of millions is common.
Then, consider the volume
of social networks, digital editions, e-books, blog sites, and a
zillion others…all forms of static and interference. Then, the
hardware…smarter by the digital minute and growing by the
nano-second.
The application of
filtering becomes vital when the targeted information is conflicting.
As you are seeking the truth, you are being drowned by a volume of
competing noise.
The questions: Will you
filter? How will you filter?
Could you use a MODEL?
What should it include?
At the risk of redundancy,
the Model for Intelligent Decisioning remains our best offer to help
combat this compounding problem (does anyone believe it will get less
conflicting in our future).
Again, the four steps
applied to this dilemma:
Step One: Discovery (your
issue, objective, problem, candidate)
Step Two: Commitment (your
dedication, testimony, involvement)
Step Three: Solution (your
specific answer to your discovery)
Step Four: Action (your
plan of execution)
The beauty of a model is
that it allows you to organize your thinking/decisioning using
successive and interactive steps. On the contrary, if you are not
willing to take the time to methodically organize, then the decision
before you may not be that important.
Boiled down, we often find
deciders in one of two camps.
The Methodicals or The
Herders
The Methodicals will
decide by commitment, resolve and relentless determination. The
Herders will tend to fall (and decide) into a group (herd) with
limited individual research, facts or true information. They will
believe and accept unchallenged polls, data or news and then melt
into their adopted herd.
One camp seems to get
it…the other one does not, and of course there are those others who
are stuck in the middle and stay frozen in place.
As always…you decide.
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