How to improve decision making

Crucial to evaluating decision making is having a clear idea what good decision making is. In a previous article I argued that decision outcomes on its own are not useful criteria for a good decision. A good decision is not necessarily a decision that turned out ok, and similarly a bad outcome doesn’t mean that the decision was wrong.

How to evaluate a decision?

In a thoughtful podcast sport scientist Sam Robertson and performance strategist David Joyce define eight characteristics of good decision making in sport. According to Robertson and Joyce, the decision: