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NOTE: This DF Method is in development. See also below.

Decision Free Management is about achieving desired outcomes against minimal resources by the utilisation of available expertise in the field of Management.

Decision Free Management may sound like a paradox. How to manage without decision making? But management is not about “decision making”, as is explained in this column.

A decision is an unsubstantiated choice (as explained here). A decision increases risk. Management has better things to do than increase risk. They should first and foremost create the conditions to fully utilise the expertise available to them. Let the experts avoid decisions (by substantiating choices), or explain why they propose a certain decision. In Decision Free Management the manager no longer makes decisions but approves or disapproves.

Decision Free Management:

  • Is about creating the conditions required to optimally utilise the available expertise (establishing a culture of no-decision-making)
  • Allows for the positive identification of those best suited to do so
  • Maintains the role of managers as “gatekeepers”, but instead of decision making managers are to approve or to disapprove.
  • Replaces decisions with substantiated choices, ensures experts make the decisions (for further approval/disapproval), and identifies decisions as risks to be considered for Risk Management

Decision Free Solutions is currently developing this method and would like to get in contact with any part interested in:

  • Co-developing DF Management
  • Analysing/evaluating the role of management in modern organisations from the point of view of DFS
  • Implementing the method of DF Management within (a segment of) the organisation

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Explaining the Fundamentals of Decision Free Solutions

The alternative to decision making is transparency.

Decisions are conclusions reached after consideration. When something needs to be considered it means it is not transparent. Create transparency and what follows are not decisions but approvals (e.g. Decision Free Management).

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Everybody can manage risk, only few can minimise it.

In every organisation there are both identified and unidentified risks. To manage identified risks is straightforward. Everybody can manage identified risks. Which leaves the unidentified risks. Who will minimise these? Not everybody can.

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Understanding that decisions increase risk impacts all.

Decisions are unsubstantiated choices. Once you realise a decision may not contribute to achieving a goal you want to avoid them. The approach of DFS, using four steps and five principles, does so in a systematic way.

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That decisions increase risk is not semantics, it is logic.

That decisions increase risk follows from the dictionary definition and use of logic. Few experience decisions in this way, for various obvious reasons. These reasons don't take anything away from decisions increasing risk. The risk is for real.

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Understanding that decisions increase risk impacts all.

Decisions are conclusions or resolutions reached after consideration. When something needs to be considered it is not transparent. When a decision is made when something isn’t transparent risk increases. With every decision it becomes less likely the aim will be achieved. How do decisions manifest themselves, what types of decision making are there? How will the approach of Decision Free Solutions avoid them?

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That decisions increase risk is not semantics, it is logic.

That decisions increase risk follows from the dictionary definition and use of logic. Few experience decisions in this way, for various obvious reasons. Many unsubstantiated choices are made based on experience or are educated guesses. We get a lot of decisions right. When the risk does occur, usually much later, we often fail to make the link with the decision. What is more, making decisions often makes us feel good. But the risk is still for real.

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Everybody can manage risk, only few can minimise it.

In every organisation there are both identified and unidentified risks. Unidentified risks occur e.g. when aims are not clearly understood, when it is unclear whether the right expertise is available, or used appropriately. All of which results in decision making. To manage identified risks is straightforward, to minimise risk you must avoid decision making. Which is what an expert does. But what does it take to become an expert?

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Decision Free Birthing empowers expectant women.

Decision Free Solutions is a generic approach. It can be applied in any field. As a demonstration of this Decision Free Birthing has been developed. DF Birthing is a method to empower expectant women to get the birthing experience they want. For this to happen today’s prevalent practices need to be changed. For example, a woman should not write her own birth plan, an expert should. Until the woman fully understands and approves it. Decision Free Birthing has been put in practice too.

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The alternative to decision making is transparency.

Decisions are conclusions or resolutions reached after consideration (the Oxford dictionary definition of ‘decision’). When something needs to be considered it means it is not transparent. Create transparency and what follows are not decisions but ‘the logical next step’. When something is transparent you don’t have to think. Transparency allows decisions to be replaced by approvals.

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Decision Free Solutions will save the world.

What if everyone, every organisation, will have his aim achieved? What if you are allowed to do what you excel at – as long as you can explain what you are going to do, and only have to tell them that all is going well, not having to share the details of what it is you are doing right now? What if expertise really matters –  always? What would politics be like? How if healthcare worked that way? Hard to imagine, but easy to start contributing to today. Let us explain how.

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