Decision-making improves capacity building.

Is your decision-making impulsive, emotional or pragmatic?

Proper decision-making is fundamental to your role as a business manager. You will have to make lots of them and, in many cases, without the benefit of all the facts. What you can do is minimise your careless decision-making. Poor decision-making and procrastination put the brakes on capacity building and better outcomes.

Many things can cause you to become careless or sloppy. These can include a lack of or poor direction or objectives, laziness, fear of making mistakes, complacency, or merely taking the easy way out.

Remember, the right decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. Nothing happens until you decide to act. However, it would help if you were informed first. Right decision-making should also be based on the critical numbers in our business first.

If the going gets tough, do not slow the numbers down or speed them up. Instead, make more calls and presentations, in other words, increase the business’s pulse rate.

The right decisions come about by having valuable information.

Perhaps the biggest issue facing us in decision-making is making a decision, “knowing what we do not know,” to make the right decision. Of course, anything is possible if you do not know what we are discussing or what is happening.

What decisions will propel your business successfully into the future? How fast and decisively will they be made? Start by making a list of the things holding you back, and then make the decision that will remove the roadblocks and create breakthroughs. Get others to help you think a decision through; it can be too hard doing it by yourself.

Always take into account lifestyle decision-making.

People often get carried away with an idea without considering their lifestyle, family, or the people involved, only to regret their decision later. Sure, it’s essential to have a good idea or opportunity on which to base your decision. However, all the fundamentals should be present.

Life is made up of an infinite number of choices. Most decisions, such as what you’ll eat for lunch today, are small and only slightly impactful. However, it’s the big decisions, the ones that can change your life forever, which are the tough ones.

Quotable Quotes

“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions”. Jim Rohn

“Occasionally, the small incremental decisions will change your life forever”. Peter Sergeant