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Making decisions is a key function of leadership. Leaders must make complex decisions that affect the lives of their teams, businesses, and communities. Expertise in the fine art of making decisions ...

Feeling bad about the option you didn’t choose can show up as guilt, sadness, anxiety that you’re missing out on something, ...

The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

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Everyone has experienced that feeling of being completely exhausted and not being able to make decisions because of it. But there must be a better way to address these times than just muddling through ...

Today, companies track everything — sales figures, customer behavior, marketing performance — yet one of the most important factors in success often goes unmeasured: the decisions themselves. We ...

Run a small business and you probably feel like you make dozens of decisions every day. Whether to cut a quality corner, or miss a ship date. Whether to respond to a customer complaint, or hope the ...

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