Feeling bad about the option you didn’t choose can show up as guilt, sadness, anxiety that you’re missing out on something, ...

Making decisions is a key function of leadership. Leaders must make complex decisions that affect the lives of their teams, businesses, and communities. Expertise in the fine art of making decisions ...

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The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are ...

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Run a small business and you probably feel like you make dozens of decisions every day. Whether to cut a quality corner, or miss a ship date. Whether to respond to a customer complaint, or hope the ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

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Today, companies track everything — sales figures, customer behavior, marketing performance — yet one of the most important factors in success often goes unmeasured: the decisions themselves. We ...

Great leaders aren’t defined by how many decisions they make, but by the discipline to make fewer, better ones. Effective leadership is defined by the quality and impact of decisions, not the number ...

Should you invest in a new consumer market? Cut that underperforming division? Buy off-the-shelf or build custom technology you urgently need to compete? Over the course of my career, I’ve seen ...