Self-assessment
Under what conditions do you really make decisions?
20 statements on dissent, information flow, alternatives, outside view and review. Four minutes, immediate results, no registration.
Decisions rarely fail because of the thinking.
They fail because dissent comes too late, information is filtered and alternatives never seriously make it onto the table. This check does not measure your decision-making competence. It shows whether the conditions under which you make decisions are right.
Four minutes
Twenty statements, four response levels. No free-text fields, no login, no download.
Five dimensions
Dissent, information flow, alternatives, outside view and review. You see immediately where decision quality is being lost.
No email address
Your results are generated in your browser. Your answers are not transmitted and no email address is requested. All that is counted, anonymously, is that a check has taken place.
A note on honesty: good decision-makers do not need applause. They need a system that allows bad news, real alternatives and qualified dissent at an early stage.
What this check measures
The check does not measure you. It measures what happens around you. The higher up you sit, the less often anyone contradicts you. That is not a leadership failing, but the statics of hierarchy. The question is not whether it affects you – but what you have built to counter it.
Your answers stay in your browser. They are not transmitted or stored, and the check does not ask for an email address. Only when you share your result at the end does it leave your computer – and even then only to the recipient you choose yourself. All that is counted, anonymously, is whether a check was started, abandoned or completed, how long it took and which route you chose afterwards – without your answers, without your IP address, without a cookie and without recognising you again. What exactly is counted →
Basis: groupthink after Irving L. Janis (1972) · the premortem after Gary Klein (2007) · defensive routines after Chris Argyris (1985) · the outside view after Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo (1993)
Where the twenty statements in this check come from – and what I changed in the four models:
Dissent
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Your results
Your profile across five dimensions
Your biggest lever:
And the other institutions?
You will deliberately not find benchmark values here. A check sheds light on one section; your institution, however, is not a section. What your compliance function permits may be prohibited at the institution next door – the same matter, two judgements, two different scopes for action. An average conceals this and invites the wrong conclusions. Sound benchmarking requires knowing the whole, not just this one area.
Why I take this approach – and what you should ask if someone offers you benchmarks:
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This check makes no statement about you as a person, your abilities or your suitability. It describes only the conditions under which you currently make decisions.
Note: this self-assessment provides general information and does not replace an examination of the individual case. The legal information applies.
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A self-assessment, not an expert opinion.
This check is a tool for self-assessment. It does not replace a conversation or an examination of the individual case.
The result is based exclusively on your own answers. It is therefore as reliable as your assessment – and just as subjective. Another person from your institution, an external auditor or I myself may arrive at a different result and different conclusions from the same statements.
No commitment can be derived from the result – neither about the state of your organisation nor about the effect, duration or success of possible measures. You make decisions on your own responsibility.
Your answers stay in your browser and are not stored. All that is counted, anonymously, is that a check was started and completed – what exactly that means.
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