Why are decisions so easy?
Oscar Trimboli
Award-Winning Author of how to listen, Deep Listening & Breakthroughs | Listener| Speaker | Apple Award-Winning Podcast Host
“You are what you do,
not what you say you'll do.”
Carl Jung
It’s not your decision that counts, it’s the action that follows.
Managers are fixated about decision making, leaders are obsessed about implementation.
Is your team constantly making up processes about how to make decisions, rather than making decisions and taking action?
Do those teams constantly revisit decisions they have made previously, confusingly asking - didn’t we make this decision last meeting?
This is well captured in Ram Charan’s article - Conquering a Culture of Indecision –“It’s not enough for a manager to say she’s assessing, reviewing, or analysing a problem. Those aren’t the words of someone who is acting.”
Ultimately it’s action that makes the difference between managing and leading.
Leaders have a bias for decision making and implementation.
A decision without action is merely a theory or hypothesis.
The fastest way to prove your approach is to act – to start the process and to experiment and learn through implementation.
The difference between the teams I see that are going through the motions and those that are high performance, is their willingness to move into action.
A decision is like a rehearsal, it’s not until you are actually performing in front of a live audience that you really understand what everyone is capable of achieving.
As General George Patton said “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
Which team are you?
Do you spend more time making decisions or do you spend 50% of time making decisions and 50% of your time making plans from the immediate implementation of the decision?
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About Oscar Trimboli
Oscar Trimboli is a Speaker, Author and Mentor helping people to explore how clarity creates change and challenging their assumptions about what is possible.
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8yI learn so much from your posts. You challenge my assumptions about what is possible. I must advocate for a situation that is long overdue, and ethically/practically needed on so many levels. A great deal of stress and time has been used assessing, reviewing, analyzing, and preparing a plan, yet still not feeling ready, and not knowing all the players and rules. As Patton stated, "A good plan... executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week". One might not be ready for possible conflict over a matter that should have simply, respectfully, and quietly been remediated, "if life was fair". Even in the dark, moving forward with hope in advocating for what is needed and what is right. Thank you, Mr. Trimboli for inspiring me and others.
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9yExcellent post and ideas! Thanks!