When making major decisions in my life, I like to make a balanced scorecard. It's a common tool taught in business school used to evaluate the main strategies and objectives of a project in relation to one another. You determine the main pillars or areas of strategy, their outcomes, and then assign each pillar a weight, or percentage indicating relative importance, so that all percentages add up to 100%.
I hadn’t considered using a balanced scorecard for a job before—what a fantastic idea! :) It’s a smart way to structure a personal and often emotional decision. I especially loved the 'good story factor'—it perfectly captures the importance of finding a job that feels meaningful. A job becomes truly fulfilling when you're learning, contributing, and genuinely excited to share your work with others. Thanks for sharing such an insightful approach!
Really interesting anecdote, and such an interesting method. It almost feels like the real value in the tool was not in actually making the decision, since you adjusted the weights to get the outcome your heart had already decided. What seems really valuable is this method forced you to think about, and explicitly rank your values/priorities at the time in the form of relative weights, sort of a numerical self-reflection. Do you track how your weights have changed over time, or in different contexts, like a personal career decision vs decisions made as a CEO on behalf of a company? It also seems like recording your weights for various decisions would be a great educational tool for others to understand how, for instance company culture, is applied in real examples. Very intriguing article, thank you!
Nice - I see "a good story" as "a good purpose" but I am out of the loop on "which first job to take". Are you doing something that will "be meaningful" or "make a difference" for those that come after you? That works for me!
I hadn’t considered using a balanced scorecard for a job before—what a fantastic idea! :) It’s a smart way to structure a personal and often emotional decision. I especially loved the 'good story factor'—it perfectly captures the importance of finding a job that feels meaningful. A job becomes truly fulfilling when you're learning, contributing, and genuinely excited to share your work with others. Thanks for sharing such an insightful approach!
That's a really cool factor :D
Really interesting anecdote, and such an interesting method. It almost feels like the real value in the tool was not in actually making the decision, since you adjusted the weights to get the outcome your heart had already decided. What seems really valuable is this method forced you to think about, and explicitly rank your values/priorities at the time in the form of relative weights, sort of a numerical self-reflection. Do you track how your weights have changed over time, or in different contexts, like a personal career decision vs decisions made as a CEO on behalf of a company? It also seems like recording your weights for various decisions would be a great educational tool for others to understand how, for instance company culture, is applied in real examples. Very intriguing article, thank you!
Nice - I see "a good story" as "a good purpose" but I am out of the loop on "which first job to take". Are you doing something that will "be meaningful" or "make a difference" for those that come after you? That works for me!