by Rick Baker
On Aug 9, 2019
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
According to Chip Heath and Dan Heath ['Decisive', 2013] "When the researchers compared whether process or analysis was more important in producing good decisions - those that increased revenues, profits, and market share - they found that "process mattered more than analysis - by a factor of six.""
Good Decision Making relies on good decision-making processes.
Good Influencing relies on good influence-making processes.
And Business Contains Only 3 Things: People, Processes, & Situations
by Rick Baker
On Aug 8, 2019
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Only on rare occasions do we need to deliver decisions with urgency. For the vast majority of situations we can take time to de-stress or reduce negative feelings before we make decisions.
Given a little time for clear thought we can consider options, we can check our gut, and we can perform common-sense tests.
As the saying goes, "If it's worth doing it's worth doing right".
Note: this not intended as an argument against the value of intuition...sometimes gut reactions bring the best decisions. And - there is value in taking time to think about gut reactions...and learn from them.
by Rick Baker
On Aug 7, 2019
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Discussions help you determine whether or not you have good/talented/skilled people on your leadership team. Quality discussions allow you to help the people you work with....and vice-versa.
Decisions set the paths to results, either failures or successes. Learning from failures is the route to better future decisions and top future effectiveness, success, & profit.
Delegation of decision-making authority and accountability is the only way to grow a business. Delegation takes tasks to talents.
Master discussion first, then decision-making, then the art of delegation.