Goal Setting / Purpose / Innovation

Bias for action

Delayed decisions are expensive and frustrating. Improve your decision making skills.

Organisations waste a lot of time and money waiting for decisions. Complex decisions need a lot of input, and It can take time to gather the right information or to talk to the right people; that’s OK. What’s not OK is for a leader to hold up the process, either through lack of drive or their own indecisiveness.

Putting off a decision doesn’t feel expensive but it is: every hour, every day that your team wait for a decision is an hour or day that your competition can catch you up, that your customers get more frustrated, that your stakeholders get more annoyed. Prioritise decision making so that your team can keep moving forward.

Do your due diligence - get the facts you need to decide - but once you have, come to a decision quickly. Not making a decision is a choice in its own right, one that carries its own costs and consequences. Your team won’t enjoy the experience of waiting for you, and your dithering will demotivate them. Decide.