Chad SilversteinBuilt To Lead · Entrepreneur , Advisor, & Thought Leader

Making Decisions With Intention

Name: Making Decisions With Intention
Uploaded: 2025-03-07T12:00:05+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Chad Silverstein
Description: Chad Silverstein advises on cultivating a disciplined decision-making process: be decisive daily, preload and reflect on your intended response before…

7 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Chad Silverstein advises on cultivating a disciplined decision-making process: be decisive daily, preload and reflect on your intended response before acting, and balance prompt action with deliberate pausing (e.g., sleeping on decisions or waiting ~24 hours). He addresses founders and CEOs as frequent risk-takers who may act too quickly and emphasizes knowing when to delay and when to act.

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There's something really powerful, being able to have on a daily basis, a discipline, to be decisive, but then also to have a process for how you make your decisions, especially the big ones, and to be able to reflect, to preload your response of what you want prior, and to be deliberate about what you're doing and why you're doing it before you go do it. You know, I think there's a lot of people in our community, a lot of founders and CEOs that are risk takers, and they just press go, and they go a little too fast. I've done it. And, you know, sometimes waiting, pausing 24 hours, thinking it, sleeping on it, and getting a different perspective can change everything usually does. So you want to be able to be reflective and not take action too quickly, but then also know that fine line of when not to delay too long.