Being an effective leader is about two core tasks: making decisions to address threats and opportunities, and implementing those decisions. Implementing decisions is about the willingness of the targets of implementation to exert effort. …

Group Decision Making Decision analysis provides individuals with a systematic approach to making decisions. Unfortunately, no one knows everything, and individual decisions are often biased by a decision-maker’s unique perspective. Inclusiveness — inviting others to help make a decision — should result in better decisions than any individual alone could make. Using a…

Introduction In this blog post, we’re going to be talking about decision-making. The central challenge in making good decisions is that we have to make decisions under uncertainty. The way we manage uncertainty leads us to make decisions in ways that are biased and not necessarily fully rational. …

Leading Via Influence The challenge of leadership is that we live in a “fast” business world. That means things happen quickly in an organization’s environment, and in order to survive, leaders have to get their organizations to react equally quickly — and effectively — when those things happen. …

Well strategy, as you may well know, is one of those glamorous business words. Strategy is something that business managers spend a whole lot of time thinking about and talking about. It’s something you may need to prove that you can do well before you get promoted beyond a certain…

Most professionals don’t think of their careers in terms of a blueprint. Instead, they equate careers to “having a good job”. Instead, I’d like to present in this chapter an alternative definition of thinking about your career. These are the same techniques that I have used to take my career…

In today’s post, I’d like to lay out a framework for the job search process. Specifically, I’d like to list out 15 steps that if you start following, I believe you should start seeing success right away. A few questions to get started: 1. Have you ever felt that you…

Introduction The question we’re going to be thinking about today is about how can you lead effectively in a world where people are no longer in the same room, or in the same office and yet have to accomplish incredibly complex activities, working together in an interdependent way? This got me…

The 2 Jobs You Must Do As a Leader We can think of leadership as really involving two critical tasks. One of the critical tasks is to make decisions. Leaders have to make decisions about where to go, and they have to make decisions about how to get there. …