Next Bearing Method — Medium Decision Guide

For decisions that need more than a quick answer, but do not require the full Complex Decision process.

The Next Bearing Method — Medium Decision Guide helps you work through important decisions involving uncertainty, competing priorities, several realistic options, financial considerations, or meaningful consequences.

Using the Next Bearing Method DESIGN framework, this guide helps you:

• Define the real decision
• Establish what the decision must accomplish
• Separate facts from assumptions
• Identify realistic options and important unknowns
• Gauge consequences, risks, and reversibility
• Name the best current path and your next action

The Medium Decision Guide is designed to give you enough structure to make a thoughtful decision without turning the process into hours of paperwork.

If your decision involves major long-term consequences, multiple stakeholders, difficult-to-reverse outcomes, or several conditional paths, the Complex Decision Guide may be the better fit.

Start simple. Go deeper only when the decision requires it.