Management Rules: 50 New Rules for Managers

CHAPTER 5

MAKING DECISIONS IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

Being decisive sounds like one of those vague qualities like business sense, or acumen, or charisma which you are either born with or without.

Fortunately, decisiveness is a management art that can be learned. Many management decisions are very easy. It is dealing with the tricky decisions where you prove your worth. Faced with a tricky decision, managers will usually ask themselves a series of questions which will soon decide the answer:

• Do I recognise this pattern? Much of management is pattern recognition. Once you have seen the same movie several times, you know what happens next. Decide accordingly. ...