Decision Making For Dummies

Part IV

Making Decisions in Various Roles

Five Ways Decision-Making Changes with Changing Roles

• As responsibility and accountability increase, a decision-making style that directs and controls performance should change to a more collaborative approach. It’s a difference between “Make it so” and “How can we make it so?”
• As your management style transforms from controlling others through power, fear, or intimidation to giving away control, you can work with and engage staff, employees, and customers.
• Moving into unfamiliar decision-making territory builds your inventory of what works and what doesn’t so that you have more solutions available on call.
• Moving from an operational to a strategic role requires a complete shift in thinking as you move from decisions based on predictable circumstances to decisions that are ambiguous, uncertain, and high risk.
• To move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, you must jettison fixed notions about what makes business success. Doing so gives you resiliency and the ability to openly explore ideas.

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In this part …

• Discover how, to become a better leader and decision-maker, you must change your mindset as you increase responsibility and risk ...