Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 12, 2020

On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts LLC and author of Never Go With Your Gut : How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Lots of variables influence our day-to-day decision making — though perhaps none more potently than the attitudes and preferences of other people. The human instinct to seek belonging with others helps us collaborate and build systems and societies. What the author calls “peer pressure manipulation” directly targets our communal instinct.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you find meetings with your team disintegrate into dysfunction and chaos, resulting in ineffective decision-making, inadequate solutions, and team members — including yourself — with deflated morale? Team” is a misnomer for these bodies; “group” is more accurate. To turn your group into a team, you need curiosity.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Politics is not necessarily a bad thing. Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others. What are the formal systems for decision-making? Are decisions actually made in that matter? How are decisions really made? Are there cliques? Who's in the cliques?

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Politics is not necessarily a bad thing. Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others. What are the formal systems for decision-making? Are decisions actually made in that matter? How are decisions really made? Are there cliques? Who's in the cliques?

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David A Fields

JUNE 6, 2017

The good news: you’ve struck up a relationship with the decision-maker at a prospective client. The bad news: Denise asks that you chat about the project with Elliot Intheweeds, the SVP of Unspecified Stuff. Let’s call her Denise, the corporation’s CUO (Chief Unspecified Officer). Elliot is an influencer.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Decisions, decisions! Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And, guess what?

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 17, 2021

A decision with unknown variables has risk. When people think about decision-making under uncertainty, the tendency is to look at the outcome of a decision to determine whether the decision was a good one. Just because the downside event didn’t happen doesn’t mean you made a good decision on a risk-adjusted basis.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Decisions, decisions! Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And, guess what?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Also in plain view is the firm’s recent decision to issue a massive recall of and then terminate the Galaxy Note 7. Our research suggests that given the challenges of letting go of these weak products, companies like Samsung put important product decisions – like exit – in the hands of more senior managers.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bad relationships result in a hostile atmosphere and poor output – guaranteed. Such a situation is healthy if it meets the following criteria: E veryone leaves the discussion aligned on the final decision. But each person is committed to making the final decision a success. Conflict happens when the response is negative.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

No Decision Is a Decision Based on two decades of training and coaching hundreds of leaders, we can tell you one thing: we know what happens if you don’t deal with poor performance or bad behavior on your team. Remember, no decision is a decision. We don’t want to make the other person feel badly. Nobody wins.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

No Decision Is a Decision. Based on two decades of training and coaching hundreds of leaders, we can tell you one thing: we know what happens if you don’t deal with poor performance or bad behavior on your team. Remember, no decision is a decision. It’s Time to Make the Right Decision. Nobody wins.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 17, 2024

I’m emphasising the different sectors because all too often, I still come across the deep-rooted narrative of “public sector bad, private sector good”. Meetings should involve problem solving, decision making, or substantive discussion. No decision is going to get made in that size meeting. BEFORE THE MEETING 1.

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Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

His belief was that the top leadership level of the company should have a decision horizon in years. Executive time together should be focused on making a few, big decisions that would have long term business impact (acquisitions, new markets, new product lines). Include strengths and are not all bad news. Who is affected by it?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. I'm assuming the team and the product leader collaborate, but I wanted to explain where which people might lead the various decisions.). However, changing your mind is not the same as making decisions for other people. “Why not?”

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Action Plan

MARCH 18, 2024

He’d had quite a life – a good education, great parents, marriage, kids, many different jobs, divorce, and some bad financial decisions. To make a long story short, we ultimately found a 1984 Toyota Dolphin RV that was not in bad shape. So, every day, on my walks past Junction Park, I stopped, and we talked.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2022

While this can be a positive trait, for instance when pursuing a challenging profession where it is necessary to face opposition without being dissuaded, demotivated, or deterred, mere persistence alone can also lead to bad decisions and poor outcomes if the path you are following is the wrong one.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Fun perks cannot serve as substitutes for dealing with poor decisions, bad news, or unethical behavior. The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions. Encourage open dialogues, regular feedback, and transparent decision-making.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 19, 2023

Companies Fail to Make Good Decisions Though our organizational culture assessment found that healthy and decisive decision making is one of the strongest indicators of an aligned organization , many companies fail to make good decisions. Invest in decision making training to get everyone on the same page.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Second, they are, in fact, being left out of many discussions and decisions — not out of malice, but simply out of benign neglect. This is bad for morale and bad for business. When everyone is working from home and meetings are conducted by Zoom it’s easy to remember to bring everyone to the virtual table.

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Kraft Kennedy

JUNE 8, 2023

With the introduction of AI tools, bad actors are running complex phishing scams at a higher volume than ever, forcing organizations to increase their security posture on the digital and human front. Artificial Intelligence (AI) leverages digital tools to complete tasks that would normally require human thinking or decision making.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2019

You make thousands of decisions every day.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 23, 2020

Instead, imagine saying this: Very bad news: “We realize our business model doesn't work for our current reality. ” Moderate bad news: “We got caught flat-footed. We'll announce our first set of decisions in two weeks.” And, in the very bad news circumstance, will people still look for a new job?

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When I started my career, I thought the right decision could always be made through logic. If I had the right data and applied rigorous logic to the decision-making process, I would always come up with the right answer. However, many life decisions are far more complex. In many cases, it doesn’t.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Second, they are, in fact, being left out of many discussions and decisions — not out of malice, but simply out of benign neglect. This is bad for morale and bad for business. When everyone is working from home and meetings are conducted by Zoom it’s easy to remember to bring everyone to the virtual table.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There is a ton of bad advice out there. Most people make their pricing decisions with little consideration for what the pricing decision says about them. The price decision is where you get paid : Your marketing has been building value throughout the marketing journey. Pricing is difficult.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Presence is that magnetic personal quality which enables an Executive to hold people to higher standards and energizes them in good, bad and ordinary times.” just functional area) when making decisions. Considers both short-term needs and long-term implications when making decisions. Maximize Results.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In business, pricing seems to be one of the most vexing issues that people deal with and too many marketers run straight away from the pricing decision. For that matter, too many people, run from the decision. All of these are bad outcomes for you. This afternoon I wanted to lay out a few ideas to help you set better prices.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Sometimes, your decisions do not have the positive outcome you wished for. It’s tempting to think that a bad outcome = a bad decision. It’s true that some decisions are outright mistakes. Other times, a decision is merely a judgment call. It’s inevitable that some of those decisions won't go your way.

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Makarios Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But what about a change you assume will be received as good news but – to your complete surprise – is viewed as bad news? You might open up a new product line and be shocked by a bad attitude on the part of your customer service and support team. Accept that what you thought was going to be good news has been received as bad news.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Presence is that magnetic personal quality which enables an Executive to hold people to higher standards and energizes them in good, bad and ordinary times.” just functional area) when making decisions. Considers both short-term needs and long-term implications when making decisions. Maximize Results.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 4, 2020

When you’re faced with two options where you know that one option will be good and the other bad, it’s useful to take the time to analyze and determine which one is which. Other times, you face two options that seem equally bad. Decision making in real life is often imperfect. Action often provides feedback and clarity.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When a major decision needs to be made, and there is no obvious decision, it is the leader that bears the consequence of choosing incorrectly. Sometimes, a leader must make a wildly unpopular decision. Even though the decision is sound, that’s not how everyone else sees it.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, At least, the decisions you made earlier seemed quite important then. And because of your role, you're in the middle of many decisions. Your role demands that you shepherd many decisions in the organization. Other people are dependent on your decisions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 10, 2023

Some of these include: higher quality leadership relationships improved self-control better decision-making enhanced life satisfaction.⁠ Leaders can make bad decisions without understanding the wisdom of knowing their distortions and blind spots. Also, these rear-view mirrors have blind spots.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 18, 2023

People who make bad decisions can do nefarious or unsafe things with a lost or stolen firearm resulting in damaged property, injury, or death. For all of these reasons, and more, employers should consider conceal-and-carry a bad idea in the workplace. Increase risk of theft or loss: Guns can easily be lost or stolen.

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