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To make an agile decision, it is essential that decision makers are clear about the decisions they must make, know what their role is in the decision-making process and have the right process for making them. How to identify the roles of each player in the decision-making process and put them together in a team? 

A single meeting in a company can cost $20,000. Here are some guidelines to keep only the useful ones and make them really work.     

With the rise of the Internet and the increasing complexity of organizations, collaboration has become a favorite word in modern management. But collaborating also has a cost, in time and resources. How to find the right amount? 

More and more specialists in neuroscience affirm that we make most decisions guided by emotion, and then justify them through reason. However, it is our challenge to ensure that reason is the protagonist in corporate decisions.

When making decisions in companies, those responsible find themselves with a great difficulty: the impossibility of knowing what will happen in the future. Some challenges that may arise depending on the approach adopted and how we improve our decisions… 

It is difficult to find people in our organizations who believe that they do not know how to make decisions. However, some biases that make us systematically be wrong exist. What is worse, they prevent us from realizing our mistakes. 

In times of pandemic, we have seen supply chains severely affected by global isolation protocols, frozen logistics operations, emergency regulations, and a lot of uncertainty. In this context, it has been common to find managers and directors attending emergencies, facing the unexpected on a daily basis, and seeking to mitigate the short-term shock effect by all possible means. 

Talking about failure in organizations is fashionable. We are increasingly hearing that allowing mistakes within companies is a path to learning, building resilience and innovation. But what about the learning that comes from success? How can we learn in both experiences?

Organizations value reason and predictability. In companies, quality control in production processes guarantees that, on average, products will come out better and clients will be more satisfied. Incentive systems reward desired attitudes and punish those that are to be avoided. However, in decision-making none of this happens. What is it that conditions the quality of the decision-making processes?

Matrix structures have redefined organizations and, as a result, the way in which teams interact with each other has become extremely complex. However, matrices are here to stay. Understanding four key levers can help us put them at the service of the objectives of the organization.