
The Choice Chain: Why Better Decisions Beat Better Data
Six months after their first conversation sparked the idea that became The Choice Chain, Louise Hosking returns to Christian Harris's podcast to explore where the thinking has led. Why can organisations collect more data, undertake more activity and still struggle to achieve better outcomes? Louise explores the constellation of interconnected decisions behind organisational outcomes and how choices about purpose, priorities, signals and trade-offs create the conditions people eventually experience. The conversation moves beyond Health & Safety into Environmental Health, sustainability, governance and integrated thinking, drawing on Louise's work with the Capitals Coalition and recent study with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. At its heart is a simple challenge: significant outcomes rarely result from a single decision. If every significant outcome is created by a constellation of decisions, how visible is that constellation in your organisation?
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