The Eightfold Path
7. Decide
The “decide!” step appears in the Eightfold Path as a check on how well you have done your work up to this point. Even though you personally may not be the decision maker, you should at this point pretend that you are. Then, decide what to do based on your own analysis. If you find this decision difficult or troublesome, perhaps the reason is that you have not clarified the trade-offs sufficiently, or that you have not said quite enough about the probability of serious implementation problems emerging (or not emerging).