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Decision-Making

The importance of questioning your work

16 June 2008

Taking time out to think and reflect on what your busy with and what’s your purpose, what are you striving to achieve? Then ask yourself, is what I’m doing directly contributing to my purpose? To remain on track 37signals suggests that to remain effective that we question our work, by asking the following:
 

 
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The power of commitment

15 June 2008

As leaders we often underestimate the power of commitment, there is something powerful about being committed, I mean being truly committed to a cause, to a vision or to a meaningful purpose.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." – Goethe

The decision to act [...]

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Insights into effective decision making

15 April 2008

Leaders are central to the development of an environment that encourages effective decision making. As CCL discusses in their article “Unbalanced Influence: How Myths and Paradoxes Shape Leaders Myth of Effective Decision Making“. The article discusses how some leader feel that decision making is their right and their responsibility, where “the belief that a decision [...]

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Peter Drucker On Leadership

15 April 2008

There is a great article “Peter Drucker On Leadership” discussing the leadership principles of Peter Drucker, some of his ideas from the article that stood out to me are as follows:

What Needs to Be Done: “Successful leaders don’t start out asking, ‘What do I want to do?’ They ask, ‘What needs to be done?’ Then [...]

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Do you have a set of leadership principles that enable others to act?

24 February 2008

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An article by Dan Heath and Chip Heath, in Fast Company, Analysis of Paralysis discusses a key principle, "If your strategy doesn’t help employees act, it’s not a strategy.", as discussed in the article….
"Researchers Eldar Shafir and Donald Redelmeier helped prove this point in an article in [...]

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Strong opinions weakly held…

15 September 2007

The phrase “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” from a post by Bob Sutton describes an important philosophy for leaders, Bob Sutton describes the importance of this idea as:
“….the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act on their knowledge, but the humility to doubt what they know…to deal with an uncertain future [...]

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Constructive conflict is essential for creating commitment to decisions

15 May 2007

An article from HBS Working Knowledge “Don’t Listen to ‘Yes’“ where Martha Lagace,talks with Professor Michael Roberto, author of the new book Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer on why it’s essential for leaders to spark conflict in their organizations, as long as it is constructive.
If people smile, nod, and say “yes” at your company, [...]

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Leadership’s New Rules

23 October 2006

With the increasing complexity the roles and behaviours of leaders need to change to suite a complex environment. The Dannemiller Tyson Associates discusses three new rules for leaders in the 21st Century:
Old Rule #1: The leader’s job is to know, and to serve as a final authority in important decisions.
New Rule: The leader’s job [...]

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Study Recommends Sleeping on Complex Decisions

13 May 2006

A Dutch study proves what we’ve all suspected:
The study found that people can think unconsciously and that for complex decisions unconscious thought is actually superior. The team argued the problem with conscious thought is that the brain can only focus on a few things at the same time, which can lead to some aspects being [...]

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Nine Decision-Making Pitfalls – And How to Avoid Them

3 January 2006

Analysis Paralysis. The cure: The 70% solution (stolen from the Marine Corps). If you have 70% of the information, have done 70% of the analysis and feel 70% confident, then move.
Sunk-Cost Syndrome. The cure: Burn the boat. Seymour Cray built two things: sailboats and supercomputers. Obsolescence is a given. To drive the point home to [...]

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