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#Leadership : 15 Tricks for Making Better Decisions Faster…The Thing about Most Important Decisions is That you Usually Don’t Have much Time to Make them. Question: What is One Trick you Use to Make Faster, Better Decisions?

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“Measure the weight of a decision against your established set of core priorities for the company. Will the decision affect the top priority? Then allow yourself more time to deliberate and analyze various outcomes. If the decision pertains to one of your lower priorities or business goals, trust your instincts, get the opinion of one or two stakeholders, or delegate.” 

–ZACH ROBBINS, Leadnomics

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1- Trust My Gut

“It’s become cliched because it works. Trust your instincts. Your brain is an incredibly powerful machine capable of amazing things, including making good decisions. The best decisions are often the ones you make the fastest, before you have a chance to second-guess yourself over and over.”

–BRITTANY HODAK, ZinePak

 

2- Recognize the Danger of Indecision

“The most successful entrepreneurs recognize that they do not have time to get all the facts for the dozens of decisions they make each day. Instead, they need to gather just enough information to make sound decisions so their company can move forward. Some of those decisions will be wrong, but it is better to learn from those mistakes and try again than to be immobilized by indecision.”

–DOUG BEND, Bend Law Group, PC

 

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3- Acknowledge What I’m Trying to Optimize For

“Making decisions can be difficult when you don’t exactly know what you’re trying to accomplish. A great mentor asked me once what I was trying to optimize for in my personal life when I asked for feedback on deciding whether I should move or not. I’ve since used this thought process of thinking through what I’m trying to optimize for in different scenarios to help bring the best option to light.”

–KELSEY MEYER, Influence & Co.

 

4- Focus on What’s Most Important

“As an entrepreneur you will often be faced with a variety of difficult decisions. These decisions are so difficult because they tend to head in very different directions. The reason that a mission statement is so important for a company is because it is vital for decision making. Keeping that in mind allows you to focus only on the decisions that keep you on course.”

–JAMES SIMPSON, GoldFire Studios

 

5- Establish Litmus Tests Early On

“The best way to quickly know if you’re making an on or off track decision is to know what your gut check tests are. For us, when it comes to rolling out new features, building on consumer asks, or generally redirecting resources, we look to our established product principles, brand values and culture characteristics. If what we are contemplating doesn’t measure up or fit in, we don’t do it.”

–SHARAM FOULADGAR-MERCER, AirPR

6- Use the Eisenhower Decision Matrix

“Once I learned of the Eisenhower decision matrix, I realized I had been putting off extremely important tasks and decisions simply because they weren’t urgent. Learning how Ike made decisions has made me more confident, and therefore faster, at making good decisions.”

–BRENNAN WHITE, Cortex

7- Survey the Audience

“Nothing is better than asking your audience or trusted advisors for their input. There are many resources for surveys; however, if you need a faster turnaround and don’t want to mess with it, create an email list that you can easily use from time to time. You’ll be amazed on how often they don’t agree with what you originally wanted to do, and usually for good reason.”

–ANTHONY JOHNSON, American Injury Attorney Group

8- Focus on Getting to 90 Percent

“Particularly in meetings, the last ten percent of a decision is what puts you far over the time limit. Once you hit ninety percent, you can often make the right decision and table the minutia for follow up.”

–SAM SAXTON, Salter Spiral Stair and Mylen Stairs

 

9- Ask, “Does This Really Matter?”

“I first ask myself if this decision really matters. Next I ask, “Does this really matter for me, for my business and further, does it matter right now?” Many times the answer is actually no. There are things that I feel strongly about but that don’t matter to whatever I’m trying to get done at the moment. I can save myself time struggling through a decision that doesn’t even need to be made.”

–ERICA DHAWAN, Cotential

 

10- Prioritize and Delegate

“Making better decisions comes down to prioritization and delegation. Prioritize the decisions you need to make by impact on your business and allocate your time accordingly. If you’re spending too much time on decisions that aren’t vital, delegate the less essential decisions and review recommendations quickly together to keep the team and business moving forward.”

–JESS LEVIN, Carats & Cake

 

11- Give Myself a Deadline for the Decision

“It’s good to set a deadline for a decision, such as at the end of the meeting, the day, or before the end of the quarter. This creates a sense of urgency, keeping things moving forward, but you’re also likely to avoid paralysis by analysis. In fact, it’s very easy to overthink things and make bad decisions because of it, as you might introduce doubts that conflict with your gut instincts.”

–ANDY KARUZA, brandbuddee

12- Chart the Decision on a Graph

“Put cost of the decision (time or money) on the x-axis, and put impact on your business of the decision on the y-axis. Chart the outcome. If its low cost/high impact, then it’s a no-brainer. If high impact/high cost, then plan the appropriate resources to make it happen. If its low impact, then chuck it away.  ”

NICK FRIEDMAN, College Hunks Hauling Junk

 

13- Toss a Coin

“Last year, the Freakonomics team conducted a research study challenging their fans to make a decision based on flipping a coin. Participants would have to act based on the randomized coin flip and take follow-up surveys. Similarly, when I have trouble making a decision, I also flip a coin and go with what the coin dictates. If I’m really not happy with the coin toss, then I go with the opposite.”

–FIRAS KITTANEH, AstraBeds

14- Always Do a Pre-Mortem Analysis

“As an entrepreneur you always deal with uncertainty, which can stop you from making big decisions quickly. When I make big decisions, I always do a pre-mortem analysis on if this initiative or decision goes the wrong way, why will it happen. This allows me to analyze both the upside and downside quickly. If the downside is not high, I make aggressive decisions quickly.”

–KELSEY RECHT, VenueBook

 

15- Reference Your Core Priorities

“Measure the weight of a decision against your established set of core priorities for the company. Will the decision affect the top priority? Then allow yourself more time to deliberate and analyze various outcomes. If the decision pertains to one of your lower priorities or business goals, trust your instincts, get the opinion of one or two stakeholders, or delegate.”

–ZACH ROBBINS, Leadnomics

 

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#Leadership : How to Train your Brain to Make Better Decisions…Researchers have Shown this Growth-Mindset #Strategy of Changing How you Interpret an Event will Change Negative Response Patterns.

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Overcoming obstacles is synonymous with entrepreneurship. The ability to engage with difficulties and stress in an empowering way is described as the biggest factor for success in life — more significant than your IQ, social networks, physical health, or socio-economic background.

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When you encounter stressful situations, there are two basic ways your brain will respond: fight or flight. Whether you fight or flee can be boiled down to how you’ve been conditioned from past experiences. This negative pattern of responses is known as “learned helplessness.” If you’ve given a terrible presentation at a business meeting, you’ll have a stress-induced flight response in similar future scenarios.

To create a pattern of empowering “fight” responses when you encounter a stressful or difficult situation, adjust your explanatory style from pessimistic to optimistic, at three key points: the cause (internal vs. external); the timeframe (stable vs. unstable); and the context (global vs. specific).

If left unchecked, this pattern of “learned” avoidance behaviors will lead to passive and poor decisions. You cannot dominate in entrepreneurship and leadership if you have a pattern of unhealthy risk-averse decisions — always fleeing from challenges.

The good news is, researchers have found that learned helplessness can be short-circuited depending your “explanatory style” or “attribution style.” After encountering a stressful situation, before a passive behavior is “learned,” you first have to interpret the experience, and that interpretation can be changed. Your fight-or-flight respond is visceral, until you learn to stop and ask, “Why?”

These explanatory or attributional styles can be categorized in three ways:

1. Internal vs. external.

This is how you explain the cause of an event, where you attach the “responsibility.” Making it internal means you see yourself as the cause, rather than an external factor. Example: “I’m terrible at giving presentations” (internal), as opposed to “the material was challenging to explain” (external).

2. Stable vs. unstable.

This is how you explain the lifespan an event; whether an experience has permanent effects, or is transient. Example: “I always forget names, I was born with a terrible memory” (stable), as opposed to “I didn’t get enough sleep last night, my memory is a little off this morning” (unstable).

 

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3. Global vs. specific 

This is how you explain the context of an event; whether the situation is universal across all environments or unique to one environment. Example: “I don’t enjoy meeting people at conferences” (global), as opposed to “I didn’t enjoy meeting the people at that last conference” (specific).

What’s the best explanatory style?

Explanatory styles can be divided simply into optimistic and pessimistic. So, a person who responds to challenges with pessimistic attributions will believe they were born “dumb;” that their lack of intelligence is permanent; and will never succeed in any job. This person responds with a “flight-response.”

Reframing the cause, the lifespan, and the context with an optimistic lens means this person believes they were born with great resilience; that their struggles are temporary and change happens over time; and they have the ability to succeed in any career, regardless of past failures. This person responds with a “fight-response.”

These reframing techniques can sound like wishful thinking or making excuses, but researchers have shown this growth-mindset strategy of changing how you interpret an event will change negative response patterns.

To create a pattern of empowering “fight” responses when you encounter a stressful or difficult situation, adjust your explanatory style from pessimistic to optimistic, at three key points: the cause (internal vs. external); the timeframe (stable vs. unstable); and the context (global vs. specific).

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December 19, 2015 | Thai Nguyen, Entrepreneur