People in Projects

The Ability to Be Decisive

Your organization reacts to your actions. When you delay making crucial decisions, you also delay the time that will be needed to implement those decisions. Many organizations have the capacity to increase their productivity and effectiveness. By putting off decision-making, you are not driving your organization efficiently. If you delay your own decision-making, you are also preventing the next tier of decisions from being made. This decision queue can build to a point where progress within the organization is seriously impacted. The result is an uncontrollable sluggishness that spreads throughout the organization and that only the project leader can correct.

Once the WHAT is decided, the HOW always follows. We must ...