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Decisiveness
Success comes more rapidly to those persons who can lead and supervise others. Despite popular misconception, leaders are made - not born. But they are self-made. You -anyone–can be a leader. But only you can make yourself into one.
The most outstanding quality of leadership is willingness to make decisions. The person who won’t or can’t make decisions - after he has sufficient facts on which to base them - can never supervise others. You can train yourself to make decisions quickly and with minimum of fretful worrying. It’s a matter of habit. You can develop the good habit of deciding now, immediately, on a course of action or you can develop the bad habit of procrastination.
Learn, first of all, to distinguish between big and little decisions - those which have highly important risks or consequences, and those where the outcome makes little difference.
Make little decisions as rapidly as possible. Give yourself more time on the big ones, to make sure you have all facts in hand and have related them carefully from the standpoint of logic. But set yourself a definite time limit — and when it expires, make your decision instantly. And remember, once you’ve made a decision, never look back at it to wonder — or regret — what might have happened had you taken another course. Such contemplation is useless. It merely takes your mind off the new decisions that will inevitable be facing you.
By demonstrating a willingness - and eagerness, even — to make decisions you will show others that you are willing to accept responsibility. Recognition of that fact will bring you the respect of others.
By consciously trying to shorten the time it takes you to make a decision, you’ll help yourself develop stronger initiative, better judgment, a more flexible attitude and open-mindedness.
In short, adopt an aggressive attitude toward decisions. Seek them out and make them! In doing so you’ll find that often you’ve prevented little problems from becoming big ones.
If there’s a decision to be made, don’t let it lie there and hope it’ll go away. It never will.
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