Quotes About Decisions
decisions never seemed to get made; discussion were slow and uninteresting, with few real exchanges; and everyone seemed to be desperately waiting for each meeting to end.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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Teams that commit to decisions and standards do so because they know how to embrace two separate but related concepts: buy-in and clarity. Buy-in is the achievement of honest emotional support. Clarity is the removal of assumptions and ambiguity from a situation. Commitment is about a group of intelligent, driven individuals buying in to a decision precisely when they don't naturally agree. In other words, it's the ability to defy a lack of consensus.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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Meeting #3:The Monthly Strategic This is the most interesting and in many ways the most important type of meeting any team has. It is also the most fun. It is where executives wrestle with, analyze, debate, and decide upon critical issues (but only a few) that will affect the business in fundamental ways. Monthly Strategic meetings allow executives to dive into a given topic or two without the distractions of deadlines and tactical concerns.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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To make meetings less boring, leaders must look for legitimate reasons to provoke and uncover relevant, constructive ideological conflict. By doing so, they'll keep people engaged, which leads to more passionate discussions, and ultimately, to better decisions.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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If we hate meetings, can we be making good decisions and successfully leading our organizations? I don't think so. There is simply no substitute for a good meeting—a dynamic, passionate, and focused engagement—when it comes to extracting the collective wisdom of a team. The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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enduring, successful companies adhered strictly to a fundamental set of principles that guided their behaviors and decisions over time, preserving the essence of the organization.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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How will we succeed? Or put another way, How will we make decisions in a purposeful, intentional, and unique way that allow us to maximize our success and differentiate us from our competitors?
~ Patrick Lencioni
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For cohesive teams, meetings are compelling and vital. They are forums for asking difficult questions, challenging one another's ideas, and ultimately arriving at decisions that everyone agrees to support and adhere to, in the best interests of the company.
~ Patrick Lencioni
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Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
~ Patrick White
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Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.
~ Paul Arden
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Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make. Making the safe decision is full, predictable and elads nowhere new. The unsafe decision causess you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of. And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want. Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a plce where others only dream of being.
~ Paul Arden
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You have the freedom to change your mind as long as those decisions are beneficial, in line with God's Word, and don't permanently harm the people around you. The decisions you make about your life might hurt other people, but remember, there is a difference between causing someone necessary hurt and causing someone permanent harm.
~ Unknown
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You can't let the suits make technical decisions for you.
~ Paul Graham
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Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear.
~ Unknown
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You know you've got my support, Reid told him. Whatever difficult decisions you need to make. All I would ask is that you be alert to... For a moment he seemed at a loss. To what? Louis said impatiently. Reid picked up a votive candle from the dresser top and observed its flickering light. The shimmer of things, he said. The spirit and not the letter.
~ Unknown
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Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.
~ Paulo Coelho
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you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Well, then, why should I listen to my heart? Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.
~ Paulo Coelho
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The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences.
~ Paulo Coelho
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You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
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With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn to reading books of advice from experts on relationships - but this is all folly. The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.
~ Paulo Coelho
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The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
~ Paulo Coelho
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