Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
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Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
5. Effective executives, finally, make effective decisions. They know that this is, above all, a matter of system— of the right steps in the right sequence.
Peter Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
Pre: What happens before the leader makes the decision The Call: What the leader does as he or she makes the decision that helps it turn out to be the right one Execution: What the leader must oversee to make sure the call produces the desired results
Warren G. Bennis • Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
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... See more
Farnam Street • Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
In well-run organizations, people can focus on their work (as opposed to politics and bureaucratic procedures) and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen both for the company and for them personally. By contrast, in a poorly run organization, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries and b
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