Leaders must own their decisions rather than avoid or endlessly delegate them. Whether you decide fast or slow matters less than actually deciding. Self-assess your pace: are you moving too quick, too slow, or just right, then adjust.
Of course, we talked decisiveness earlier, and some people aren't great decision makers, or some people really have to over-analyze, like really analyze, really dig in, do the due diligence. And again, there's no right or wrong. There's no right or wrong to decision making, whether it's somebody who haphazardly with very little information makes a decision or someone who over-analyzes and makes a decision. The point is to make the decision. And yet there are a lot of leaders out there that don't like to make decisions, avoid it, delay it. They will delegate the decision out because again, now it's not their responsibility if they delegate or even dump it out to somebody else. And you as a leader absolutely need to be able to make those decisions. And so you need to recognize, remember self-assessment, you need to recognize what what your decision-making process is. And sometimes it'll be just right. Sometimes it'll be too slow. Sometimes it'll be too fast. The outcome though, it has to be the decision. So then you can work on whether or not it, it needs to be done, you know, different, better, faster, slower, whatever the case might be. But you have to be a decision maker.
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
