I watched a meeting unfolding of the directors of a new company, who were trying to decide which vendor would supply a key service to the organization. After several minutes of heated debate, the director of business development literally stood up and pounded his fist on the table.
That got everyone’s attention!
“I think we should use [...]
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In a previous post, I described a continuum of five decision-making styles available to leaders:
Now Hear This!
Trial Balloon
Buck Stop
Life Raft
You Tell Me!
Successful leaders move across this continuum with grace, making it look easy. It’s not automatic, but you can learn to do it too. It might look a bit tricky at first, but then, so [...]
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Famous leaders are often remembered for one critical decision that shaped destiny, such as George Custer’s brash decision to attack at Little Big Horn, or Harry S Truman’s fateful decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I’ve have been studying organizational leaders for two decades, and have come to the conclusion that what [...]
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