How to Categorise Your Different Ideas
What do you do when you’re making a big decision and you’ve got multiple options, but different opinions and perspectives on what is most important?… Read More »How to Categorise Your Different Ideas
How to Defuse Turf Wars During Decision Making
Here’s a quick tip for defusing “turf wars” and “power struggles”! When 2 managers or teams are arguing over the right solution for a decision… Read More »How to Defuse Turf Wars During Decision Making
Is Your Team Guilty of Making Pseudo Decisions?
Is your team guilty of making pseudo decisions? These are ideas that sound good at the time, but are ridiculous in retrospect. Pseudo-decisions don’t solve… Read More »Is Your Team Guilty of Making Pseudo Decisions?
5 Reasons Why the Super League Was a Failed Exercise in Decision Making
The European Super League was a very high profile example of how not to make decisions. It shows that senior leaders supported by the best… Read More »5 Reasons Why the Super League Was a Failed Exercise in Decision Making
Binary Choices are for Computers, Not for Humans
“Yes” or “No” is a fundamental issue in decision making. A binary decision is a choice between two alternatives. For instance between taking a specific action… Read More »Binary Choices are for Computers, Not for Humans
Here comes hybrid working…
Managing remote teams is challenging. For some managers operating remotely has exposed capability gaps that were less obvious face to face. A much more sophisticated… Read More »Here comes hybrid working…
Why you need to become a Hypothesis Driven Leader
Every decision a leader makes – every target set, the direction taken – is fundamentally a hypothesis. Or more accurately an educated guess about the… Read More »Why you need to become a Hypothesis Driven Leader
Emotions in the workplace
If your emotions are bigger than the thing, it’s not about the thing… Dealing effectively with emotions is a key leadership skill, although under-appreciated and… Read More »Emotions in the workplace
Good or Bad?
What’s the ratio of good decisions to bad in your organisation? According to McKinsey, 72% of senior leaders reported they thought bad strategic decisions were… Read More »Good or Bad?
Generate options
Did you know that a 20 year study found 71% of organisation decisions are binary choices? i.e. “Should we do this, or should we not?”… Read More »Generate options