8 Tips For Being A More Decisive Leader
CIO, Friday, February 21st, 2025
Making decisions is an important part of leadership. But being decisive is an art. These tech leaders have mastered it.
When you lead a team, your people will turn to you to make the final call on a huge number of decisions. People admire a leader who is decisive. But decisiveness is challenging to master. You have to live with the decisions you make. And history is rich with tales of hubristic leaders who were willing to make tough decisions - boldly ignoring naysayers - and ultimately leading their crew into crushing disasters. But you can't always wait for more data to ensure your decisions are sound. Your hesitation could itself become an inadvertent decision.
'Decisiveness is hard,' says Raju Malhotra, CPTO of Certinia. 'You are often making a judgment call based on imperfect information, very quickly.'