Mike Zeidler2021-08-10T20:53:26+00:00There’s a lot of talk about collaboration these days — and with it often comes a worry about making decisions. The more you try to include people and decide things together, the longer it all takes — right?
Wrong! At least, it’s not necessarily so.
People who want to be inclusive can easily get caught up by thinking: Everybody must agree; and Things shouldn’t happen before everyone’s been properly consulted.
The trouble is, life simply isn’t like that. Decisions can’t always wait, and there’s always more than one solution because our minds are compulsively creative. The good news is that being properly inclusive and being swiftly decisive is actually quite easy(ish) as long as you keep a few simple rules.
The first is to use the right decision making process for the right job. In my experience, there are three kinds of decision making:
Decisions about purpose and meaning
Decisions about strategy
Decisions...
