#13 (EN): Decision Making In Rapid Change

In this episode of **Me, Myself & IT Leadership**, Nova and Daniel discuss one of the most pressing leadership challenges in technology today: how to make good decisions when markets, technologies, and operating conditions move faster than traditional corporate decision cycles.

The conversation explores why, in fast-changing environments, the biggest cost is often not the wrong decision — but the delayed one. Daniel explains why perfect analysis can become an illusion, why consensus can both help and slow organizations down, and why reversibility and portability are becoming essential leadership principles.

**Topics in this episode:**

- Why corporate decision cycles often no longer match the speed of technological change

- Why perfect analysis can create false confidence in fast-moving topics like AI, cloud, and platforms

- How consensus can protect decisions but make later corrections harder

- Reversibility as a core decision criterion

- Portability as the practical answer to fast technology shifts

- Two-way doors and one-way doors in real implementation work

- Why teams escalate decisions even when they suffer from slow decision-making

- How incentive systems reward non-decisions and punish mistakes

- Why budget pressure often makes organizations slower instead of faster

- What the AI hype reveals about unclear responsibilities

- What leadership needs to do when technology cycles keep getting shorter

**Core idea:**

In fast markets, the winning organization is not necessarily the one that makes the one perfect decision. It is the organization that makes faster, consciously revisable decisions — and designs its architecture, contracts, and responsibilities so that course corrections remain possible.

**Hosts:** Nova and Daniel Jauss

**Podcast:** Me, Myself & IT Leadership