When faced with a difficult decision, making a detailed list of pros and cons between the two choices is a perfect recipe for disaster and prolonged indecisiveness. Scoring the individual attributes in hopes of making a decision based on a total score is even worse. What is the key to effective decision making then? Need to focus on what is the most important factor (what is the single thing that matters the most i.e., Math.Max) and make a decision based on that.

I don’t remember it now, but I have read the same thing echoed in one of the business books I read – maybe it was Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things