Anchor System Thinking: How to Make Life Changing Decisions

A. I. Shoukry

Anchor System Thinking

How to Make Life Changing Decisions

First published by A. I. Shoukry 2021

Copyright © 2021 by A. I. Shoukry

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Contents

Preface

I. ANCHOR SYSTEM THINKING

1. Introduction to Anchors

2. Anchor System Thinking

3. Anchor Points

II. APPLIED ANCHOR SYSTEM THINKING

4. Anchor Maps

5. Applied Anchor System Thinking

6. Be the Anchor

III. ANCHOR SYSTEM THINKING FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES

7. Introduction

8. Anchor System Thinking for Organizations

9. Anchor System Thinking for Societies

IV. FINAL

10. Conclusion

11. Appendix

Acknowledgement

References

About the Author

Preface

Today’s choices determine our future

If there is one lesson you should learn from the Covid-19 pandemic, you should never take anything for granted again.

You will never be able to predict the future, but at least you should be more prepared.

Every day you make hundreds of decisions that might determine your near and future existence.

Not only that, sometimes you are not making decisions for just yourself, but the people around you. You might be a parent, partner, founder, or leader. It is your responsibility to make the right decisions in such difficult situations. And it is your responsibility to learn how to make great decisions.

Any decision-making process falls between two extreme cases depending on our level of knowledge about our actions’ outcomes. One side of this scale is deterministic. You have full knowledge; the opposite is deep uncertainty, where you are in complete ignorance. Between these two extremes lies the risk, where you have some knowledge but not all of it.

A risky situation is when you understand the system, know the consequences, and can quantify the probability.

Uncertainty is when you know the system and the consequences, but you do not know the probability.

Your daily life decisions mostly fluctuate between deterministic and risky situations and sometimes complete uncertainty.

In the COVID-19 pandemic, ordinary people, executives, and even governments struggle with the decisions they need to make on every level. Crucial decisions that do not only affect their