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Five Tips for Making Better Decisions
Being able to pull the trigger is one of
the benefits of being your own boss, but some entrepreneurs are still gun shy.
Making a decision is
one of the most powerful acts for inspiring confidence in leaders and managers. Yet many bosses are
squeamish about it.
Some decide not to decide, while others simply
procrastinate. Either way, it’s typically a cop-out -- and doesn’t exactly
encourage inspiration in the ranks.
To avoid pining over what to do and what to skip,
it can help to learn how to make better decisions. You’ll be viewed as a better
leader and get better results overall. Here are five tips for making quicker,
more calculated decisions:
1. Stop seeking perfection. Many great leaders would prefer a project or report be
delivered only 80% complete a few hours early than 100% complete five minutes
late. Moral of the story: Don’t wait for everything to be perfect. Instead of
seeking the impossible, efficient decision makers tend to leap without all the
answers and trust that they’ll be able to build their wings on the way down.
2. Be independent. Good
decision makers are “collaboratively independent.” They tend to surround
themselves with the best and brightest and ask pointed questions. For instance,
in a discussion with subject-matter experts, they don’t ask: “What should I
do?” Rather, their query is: “What’s your thinking on this?” Waiting for
committees or an expansive chain of command to make decisions could take
longer. Get your information from credible sources and then act, swiftly.
3. Turn your brain off. Insight comes when you least expect it. Similar to
suddenly remembering the name of an actor that you think you'd just plumb
forgotten. The same happens when you’re trying to make a decision. By simply
turning your mind off for a while or even switching to a different dilemma,
you’ll give your brain the opportunity to scan its data bank for information
that is already stored and waiting to be retrieved.
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As
one of the pioneers in responding to the construction litigation crisis in Las
Vegas, Lee, Hernandez, Landrum, Garofalo & Blake (the “Firm”), has
experienced first-hand the phenomenal growth of Nevada’s business and
real-estate markets. Founded originally in 1996 by David S. Lee, the Firm
evolved as its partnership grew, most recently from Lee & Russell to its
current iteration. The Firm is proud to be the preeminent defense firm in the
Las Vegas, Reno and Phoenix legal communities, meeting the litigation needs of
developers, general contractors and design professionals.
East San Diego County
Personalization is one way of
showing a person they mean a great deal. Personalizing a gift is a way of
making it have more sentiment and it even adds extra importance and value to
even the smallest and most inexpensive gift. After all anyone can buy a blanket
at a store, but how many blankets have your child's name and picture imprinted
on them? The same holds true for a hat or a shirt. These items can be bought by
the gross, but only that personalized hat or shirt you choose for a child will
feature their name or picture. Here is your opportunity - if you wanting to
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Deepak Chopra on the Entrepreneurial Soul
The New Age author shares his views about what
it takes to be an extraordinary leader.
After
writing more than 50 books on topics ranging from Buddha to getting a good
night's rest, Deepak Chopra recently turned his attention to leadership and
entrepreneurs in "The Soul of Leadership" (Random House Harmony
Books). While there's no shortage of spirituality in this book, readers --
Chopra hopes -- will get a healthy tutorial on how to practically start and
build organizations and companies that thrive and possibly even inspire.
Here are
his answers to a few of our burning questions:
Why write about leadership and why now?
I've written about physical well-being, emotional well-being, social
well-being. And I just thought it was finally important to address business and
organizational well-being because the long-term financial success of any
business depends on its health and how it's functioning. Also, I feel that the
time is right because many people are disappointed with the leadership on Wall
Street and at many large companies. So many corporations and companies are
reinventing themselves right now.
What are the keys to
successful leadership?
Any entrepreneurial leader has one main goal: How to envision that future and
how to create that future. So in order to be really effective, the leader needs
to harness the intelligence, creativity, emotional engagement and also the
emotional connection with the people that are part of his or her team in order
to manifest that vision.
Can leadership be
learned?
Leaders are not born that way. Circumstance, context, history, culture and
precise timing bring out the leader. It's said the civil rights movement was
born when Rosa Parks refused to get up from her seat. When asked why she did
that, she said she was tired. It is really a mysterious phenomenon, but I
believe that in any moment of crisis, there's a moment for leaders to emerge,
and they usually do. Among the many, there are always one or two people who
realize the opportunity and their potential. We all have the potential. We all
may not have the desire. If you don't have the desire, then you're not a born
leader. Inherent in the desire is the potential for leadership.
What can entrepreneurs
get out of reading your book?
Entrepreneurs are risk takers in general, so they will learn to take calculated
risks. They will learn to look and listen at four levels -- the level of the
physical experience, or observation; the level of the mind, or analysis; the
level of emotions and heart and feeling; and ultimately the level of deeper
consciousness where our insight, imagination and creativity are nurtured. So
it's much more holistic. For business leaders, what their followers expect most
is that they have a vision, and that the vision will be actualized. But what
they also want from leaders is hope, trust, values and stability.
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