August 24, 2021
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Author: Karl Schoemer
Things are different today. The pace of change – combined with the speed of marketplace demands wrapped in a sea of information – requires more and faster decisions at ever-lower organization levels. It’s the only way businesses can compete, and it’s the only way your employer can survive.
Making decisions is part of your job. Like it or not, decisions are part of every job, at every level, in every organization. This is truer today than yesterday and will be truer tomorrow than today.
In fact, making decisions vs. executing the task is a primary responsibility, regardless of your role, title, or tenure.
If you would rather defer, stall, stay quiet, or let someone else decide, you’re putting yourself at risk. Making no decision is a decision – with commensurate consequences.
Organizations are investing time, money, and energy each day to equip people with what’s needed to make decisions. Understand that you are paid to make decisions. Use your intellect, your experience, your good judgment, your intuition. Don’t procrastinate or duck responsibility. Decide . . . it’s what you are paid for.
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