A short YouTube monologue (Mark Simpson) arguing that efficient decision-making is crucial for business success. The speaker emphasizes a practical rule for resolving disagreements: make a decision rather than stall — if one person cares more they should decide, otherwise hash it out — to prevent fights from halting progress.
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But I think one thing that we both agreed on early on was, you know, we have to make a decision. Right. There's no excuse to not make a decision because you disagree or you're angry with each other or whatever it is. Like, so I think we've always like, okay, well, you might disagree with me, I might disagree with you, but we need to come to an answer. And it's either you, I care about it more than you, so I'll make a decision, vice versa, and we both care about enough, then we'll, like, we'll hash it out, and, like, we're going to make it, but we're going to make a decision on this point. And I think that's really helped us carry forward. Because the hardest thing is, like, you get in a fight, you stop talking, and then three days later, nothing happens. And that's just not the right way to operate a business. And I don't think we'd be where we were, where we are now, if we, you know, didn't have a way to make decisions efficiently. Yeah.