the more we think about decisions and the implications of them, the more we back away from the right decisions. Quit thinking about implications. Just make decisions.

As a leader, your job is to make decisions! There are other things, too, but that is your main job. If you are going to create a successful firm that sells expertise, you’ll have to step out of your desire to always be right in your bent toward research and take some risks. All of us are afraid of making the wrong decisions, of course, but rest ass

bound to make some bad ones. Here’s the thing, though: If you get into the habit of correcting your bad decisions quickly, you’ll get comfortable making more decisions in the first place because you’ve learned that it’s not such a big deal to make the wrong one.

Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. Bu