<\/p>\n
This malaise cuts across all levels of leadership and is probably at its worst at the C Suite level. The reason why we have the C Suite community is to take decisions. As that is the only way things move forward. Decide on things like entering a new market, investing in a new plant, hire additional talent, shut down some stores, more R&D on product development, offer the go ahead to an emerging technology etc etc. The core of their KRA is to ‘make decisions<\/em><\/span>‘ where value gets created and NOT not make decisions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If deferring decision making is your go to strategy, I am sorry, I beg to differ. A lot of us go through the motions of doing a job, go to work, follow instructions, attend some meetings, do some sales and then rinse and repeat it all over again, day after day. Decision making is deferred, infinitely procrastinated or ignored all together.<\/p>\n It would be useful to remember that as much as we are victims of our decision making, we are also victors<\/em><\/span> from it. The coin has two sides. And it is in those decisions the arc of your career or changing the course of your life to much better happens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bureaucracy and not making decisions are birds of the same feather. But the progress, growth and betterment of humanocracy<\/a> (a must read book of the same name by Gary Hamel<\/em><\/span> and Michele Zanini<\/em><\/span>) is contingent on decisions made NOT deferred or not made at all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fear is a reaction, creativity is a response! <\/span><\/em>And it applies both in the personal and professional context.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I will escalate this matter to my manager and we will get back to you within the next 24-48 hours“. How often have we heard this line emanating from multiple ‘customer service centres‘ around the world. The message is clear and simple. Either I am not in a position to decide or I don’t … Continue reading “To Decide or Not To Decide? Which Side Are You On?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fait-Accompli.jpg\")
<\/p>\n