From the C-suite to frontline managers, decision-making is your most important business activity. And Nobel Prize winning research shows that our brains are a weird place to do it. In this fun and practical Dreamforce session, Erik Larson, Founder and CEO of Cloverpop, shares decision making insights from behavioral science that will help us make faster, better decisions…no PhD required. Use this Harvard Business Review checklist to unlock better, faster decisions together.

1. Confidential
2016
Cloverpop
Erik Larson, CEO
Decide twice as fast and make half your meetings disappear.
Meeting Magic
Dream
pitch
Sem
i-finalist!!!
The Enterprise Decision Making Platform

2. DECISION
MAKING
ELSE
EVERYTHING
DECISION
EFFECTIVENESS
DRIVES 95% OF
BUSINESS
PERFORMANCE.
Bain & Company
HBR:The Decision Driven OrganizationCloverpop

3. OUR BRAINS
ARE A REALLY
WEIRD PLACE
TO LOCK UP
BUSINESS
DECISIONS.
Jill Bolte Taylor TED Talk:
My Stroke of InsightCloverpop

4. ALONE, OUR
BRAINS ARE LIKE
A HOUSE OF
MIRRORS WHERE
LOSSES FEEL
TWICE AS BIG
AND PROJECTS
TAKE HALF AS
LONG.Jill Bolte Taylor TED Talk:
My Stroke of Insight
Marilyn Monroe
CarnivalCloverpop

5. TOGETHER,
OUR BRAINS
ARE LIKETHE
BLIND MEN
WHO THINK
WHATTHEY
SEE IS ALL
THERE IS.
Cloverpop

6. OUR BRAINS
ARE NOT
MACHINES,AND
DROWNING IN
DATA DOESN’T
CHANGETHAT.
Jill Bolte Taylor TED Talk:
My Stroke of Insight
Marilyn Monroe
Carnival Cloverpop

7. OUR BRAINS
INVENTED SLEIGHT
OF HAND. DON’T GET
TRICKED,
WIDENYOURVIEW.
Cloverpop
Sheldon Casavant
Card Tricks

8. DECISIONS ARE A
PROCESS.
STOP MAKING DECISIONS.
START DOING DECISIONS.
Cloverpop

9. Invest 20 minutes. Cut 20 meeting hours.
Weigh In
15 minutes 5 minutes
BEFORE DECIDING AFTER DECIDING
Review
Weigh In
Weigh In
Weigh In
Frame
Buy In
Buy In
Buy In
Buy In
Follow UpRecord
Cloverpop
Booth 343.

10. 7 BRAIN TRICKS
TO DECIDE TWICE AS FAST
& MAKE HALF YOUR
MEETINGS
Cloverpop
DISAPPE
AR

11. cloverpop.com/hbr

12. Cloverpop
#1 - Write down 5 goals and priorities.

13. Cloverpop
#2 - Write down at least 4 real alternatives.
1. Eat it
2. Drink it
3.Taste it
4. Ask the Hatter
5. Wake up
Walt Disney
Alice in Wonderland

14. Cloverpop
#3 - Look for what’s missing.

15. Cloverpop
#4 -Tell the story of one year from now.
IT’S LIKE DEJAVU,
ALL OVER AGAIN.
-YOGI BERRA

16. Cloverpop
Super riends
Marvel Comics
#5 - Involve at least 3, but no more than 7.

17. Cloverpop
#6 - Record what, why, who and how much.
Paperboys
NT Times

18. Cloverpop
#7 - Follow up to change the map or change course.
Boat
Louis Helbig

19. Confidential
2016
Decision Database
Record and track people, priorities, choices and results.
Analyze
Measure and improve
Engage
100% communication
Collaborat
e
Cloverpop internal research, as published in Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2016/03/a-checklist-for-making-faster-better-decisions
Decision Execution
20% better results
Cloverpop is a cloud software platform for
decision making from the C-suite to the front lines.
Booth 343.

20. Modern enterprises use software systems
to manage important business processes.
It’s not decided until it’s in Cloverpop.
Booth 343.