Tasking in Bets

We set tasks, but do we think about the payoff when we complete them? Or the odds that we can complete them at all?

I was reading Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets while crafting various tasks on a few projects. It hit me - we set tasks without contemplating the odds we’ll finish them or the dividends they might accrue when they’re completed. We set these objectives in motion without considering any risks or economic externalities like…

1. The risk that it cannot be completed