Better Insights, Better Results
There are two different kinds of compromises in decision making. One compromise results in a decision that gets you towards the solution. The other compromise results in a decision that is worse than where you started from. In The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management, Peter Drucker …
“Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” — Tony Robbins All talk, no action? Good ideas, but no results? A common problem is a lack of action commitments. If you don’t break your decisions down into effective actions with owners, …
How do you make more effective decisions? As a leader, how do you know whether to build consensus or to simply make the decision based on input? In The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, Michael Watkins writes about effective decision making using consult-and-decide and build-consensus techniques. Key Take …
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel Expert judgment is the ability to make predictions and avoid problems in a given domain. How can you test the judgment of somebody on your team? You can observe them over time, or you can accelerate the process by asking them about …
How do you get a group to make better decisions? In Social Psychology: Theories, Research, and Applications, Robert S. Feldman writes how cooperative controversy is an effective technique for enhancing group effectiveness. Beat Up and Explore Ideas Together Beating up an idea is good. Resistance makes it stronger. The trick is how to beat up …
