Hack #44: Foresee Important Problems

Learn to foresee the most significant problems you'll face by multiplying the probability of an event by its impact on human-friendly seven-point scales. The result is a final estimate of importance on a scale of 0 to 100.

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Links

• Bullet Proofing: http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/bulet-proof.php
• Keegan, Gerard. "Likert Scale" (glossary entry): http://www.gerardkeegan.co.uk/glossary/gloss.l.htm
• Wikipedia, "Likert Scale": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale
• Wikipedia, "Risk aversion": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion

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Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

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