This deck explores how decisions are made when information is incomplete or uncertain. Learners discover how leaders and decision-makers evaluate risks, probabilities, and potential outcomes. The cards explain how structured reasoning and risk awareness help improve decisions in uncertain environments.
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Card 1
Outcomes have estimable probabilities based on data or models.
Explanation
Risk implies that you can assign at least rough probabilities to possible outcomes, unlike pure uncertainty.
Common mistake
Thinking any unknown future event is pure uncertainty, even when past data allows probability estimates.
Card 2
It stems from inherent randomness that cannot be reduced.
Explanation
Aleatory uncertainty arises from natural variability in outcomes that persists even with perfect information.
Common mistake
Assuming more analysis can always eliminate variability that is fundamentally random.
Card 3
Factors you recognize as uncertain but can describe or monitor.
Explanation
Known unknowns are identified gaps, such as a competitor’s exact launch date, that you know you lack.
Common mistake
Confusing known unknowns with completely unforeseen events that no one has considered.
Card 4
Preferring options with known probabilities over vague ones.
Explanation
People often choose a clearly quantified risk instead of a potentially better option with unclear odds.
Common mistake
Rejecting ambiguous opportunities automatically, even when their expected payoff may be higher.
Card 5
Accepting larger downside variability for potentially higher returns.
Explanation
Risk appetite reflects how much volatility in outcomes a decision maker is willing to tolerate.
Common mistake
Assuming higher risk appetite means ignoring downside scenarios rather than accepting them consciously.
Card 6
It makes them more willing to take additional risks to avoid that loss.
Explanation
Loss framing often increases risk-seeking behavior, even when probabilities are unchanged.
Common mistake
Believing that decision quality is unaffected by whether outcomes are framed as gains or losses.
Card 7
They combine limited evidence with expert judgment and prior beliefs.
Explanation
Subjective probabilities arise from reasoned judgment when objective frequencies are unavailable or weak.
Common mistake
Treating subjective probabilities as arbitrary guesses rather than structured judgments.
Card 8
The probability-weighted average of all possible monetary outcomes.
Explanation
Expected value summarizes many uncertain outcomes into a single comparable figure.
Common mistake
Confusing expected value with the most likely single outcome.
Card 9
It accounts for both payoffs and their probabilities across scenarios.
Explanation
Expected value balances downside risk with upside potential using probability weights.
Common mistake
Overweighting rare disasters and rejecting options with strong overall expected value.
Card 10
Which assumptions most strongly change the decision outcome when varied.
Explanation
By varying inputs, you see which uncertainties truly matter for the decision.
Common mistake
Treating all assumptions as equally important without testing their impact.
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