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Judgment & ambiguity · Prioritizing without clear signal

It's mid-flight on a multi-channel campaign, three channels are all underperforming their targets by similar margins, and you have budget to meaningfully shift only one. Nothing is clearly the worst. How do you sequence the decision?

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When the lagging metric won't rank them, I stop staring at outcomes and rank on three other axes.

The full answer: structure, worked example, likely follow-up.

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