Idea 66: Sharing decisions

When people are of one mind and heart they can have Mount Tai.

Chinese proverb (Mount Tai is a famous mountain in Shangdon Province, the highest known to Confucius)

It is useful for you as a leader to know the options open to you in decision making or problem solving.

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The decision-making continuum is a simple model: it uses the metaphor that a decision is like a cake that can be shared in different ways between the leader and the team as a whole or any individual member. At one end of the continuum the leader has virtually all the cake: he or she issues an order or command. The next point on the line is where the leader ...

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