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A selection of insights to reflect on and boost ideas.
Empowerment vs. Impoverishment: How to delegate without suffocating in the attempt?
All bosses delegate mechanical and routine tasks such as information searches. But how many dare to actually delegate decision making?
How to align support areas with the business?
There is a tradition of enmity between support and business areas. But it does not necessarily have to be this way. Here, a series of guidelines to ensure that line…
Deciding to do more with less. How to move towards a portfolio management culture? – Part II
Portfolio methodologies make it possible to optimize in a more efficient way the allocation of resources to products, assets, projects, channels, and other variables in order to maximize the value…
Hurry, a decision must be made
The prevailing cultural model in business holds that leaders have to be people ‘of character’ who make decisions in the blink of an eye. However, gut decisions often fail, and…
Opinionists and silent naysayers, how to avoid these two great evils of companies?
The opinionist speaks without knowing and delays decisions that seemed already made. The silent naysayer never opposes, and later becomes defensive: “I never agreed with this decision”. How to avoid…
Achieving simplicity through a decision-making approach
Companies have become complex organisms, or are they actually (too) complicated? Simplicity can be achieved by redefining the way in which decisions are made.
Nudges, understanding the architecture of decisions
A school principal conducted an experiment in the cafeteria to analyze the behavior of her students and induce them to eat a healthier diet. An introduction to nudges, and decision…
Deciding as a team: when more ends up being less
Making decisions as a team has the advantage of a greater number of perspectives and commitment to execution. But you need to be careful, for groupthink biases can lead to…
Quarreling teams, successful results, how to manage conflict in decision making?
Organizations fear conflict. Their value statements emphasize “teamwork” and “collaboration”. When a problem arises, it is often denied or hidden to convey an image of a united team.