151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making

93Moving On—From Sucess and Failure

Assignment

Whether your decision was ultimately a success or failure, you need to learn from both, and keep both in healthy perspective.

When a decision has been a success, note what made it so, revel in it, and then get ready for the next one. Remember, good leaders have a track record of good decisions, and they know that one good decision does not a success make. Instead, it is the accumulation of multiple good decisions that give them the confidence and knowledge to keep making them again and again.

But though you will certainly want to strive to always make the right decision, the fact is no one is ever 100 percent. Let’s face it; even professional baseball players strive for a batting average of only ...