Quotes About Decision-making

For finally, "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing," as Churchill pointed out, "but only after they've tried everything else.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." —JIM ROHN

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them.

TODAY GIVE YOUR TIME ONLY TO THINGS THAT PASS THE REQUIREMENT, RETURN, REWARD TEST.

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.

Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.

Leaders who have reached the top of their profession or the top of their organization cannot take anything for granted. No matter how good they've been in the past, they still need to strategize, weigh decisions, plan, and execute at a high level.

Não é fácil fazer o que é certo quando é mais fácil fazer errado. é necessário ter um carácter forte. (p. 130)

Years ago, I used to tell new leaders I hired that every person in our organization walked around with two buckets. One bucket contained water, and the other gasoline. As leaders, they would continually come across small fires, and they could pour water or gasoline on a fire. It was their choice.

while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending." So

If you want to be successful as a person and as a leader, you must make choices. You must prioritize. You cannot have it all. No one can.

Cualquiera que trajera un problema y quisiera que yo le ayudara, debía traerme también tres soluciones potenciales antes de venir a verme.¿Cree usted que hice eso porque no quería ayudar a nadie? No, lo hice porque quería que aprendieran a ayudarse a sí mismos. Pronto se volvieron creativos e ingeniosos. Con el tiempo necesitaban menos ayuda, por lo que se convirtieron en mejores líderes que tomaban decisiones.

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

The question is not, "Will my calendar be full?" but "Who will fill my calendar?" If we are leaders of others, the question is not, "Will I see people?" but "Who will I see?" My

We don't get to pick our talents or IQ. But we do choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices—to cop out or dig out of a hard situation, to bend the truth or stand under the weight of it, to take the easy money or pay the price.

Management has no power. Management has only responsibility." I

As leaders we need to remember that. Strong convictions precede great actions. When we know something is right-- and that conviction is bolstered by the knowledge that our motives are pure...-- we need to follow through. Others may second-guess our thinking and our decision-making. But when we know what's right, we can't let those things throw us off. We need to stand by our convictions.

Prioritize the things that yield high return. What's the key to being productive? Prioritizing. To be an effective leader, you must learn to not only get a lot done, but to get a lot of the right things done. That means understanding how to prioritize time, tasks, resources, and even people. Effective prioritizing begins with eliminating the things you shouldn't be doing.

There are two things that are most difficult to get people to do: to think, and to do things in order of importance." He

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST TODAY AND NEGLECT THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTER.