Tools · Decision-Making

Decision Field Card

The whole record on one sheet, for decisions caught on the move

Not every decision earns a full record, and the ones you make between meetings are the ones that quietly disappear. The Field Card holds the same discipline on a single sheet: frame it, read it, check your grip, name the trade-off, and commit with a number and a date. If the Read gives you a right-hand tick on reversibility, reach or stakes, it tells you to open the full Individual Decision Record instead. Built on MASTER, my six-move framework for consequential decisions.

What you get

• One sheet, printed double-sided or typed: the decision in a sentence, the question beneath it, the lenses you are using, and a four-row read that tells you when to open the full record instead
• The stake check, three options including doing nothing, the assumption that would change the answer, and the trade-off sentence in the same form the full record uses
• A confidence number, a first action written as a trigger, and an early-warning indicator or kill criterion, all set while you can still think clearly
• The reviews on the back: a checkpoint with a near-miss check and a verdict, then a debrief that scores the process out of five and asks whether your confidence was about right
• A line for the ledger in the Individual Decision Record, so a fast decision still contributes to the pattern
• Fill it in on screen using Adobe Acrobat Reader or Preview, then save a copy