CAREER COACH
MEDIUM AUDIO PLUS
Theformer US president Theodore Roosevelt once said: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next-best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” I love this quote for several reasons.
It points out that the worst thing you can do is make no decision at all. In business, millions of decisions are made every day: minor and major, easy and difficult decisions. Sometimes, millions of dollars or people’s jobs may be at stake.
Many decisions involve more than one person — meaning a team. Should we assume that, if teams make lots of decisions, they’re also good at it? I would love to say yes, but in my experience, the answer is no.
When I work with a team, we inevitably come across the question of the decision-making process within the team. It could be a minor thing (“Where shall we go for our next team lunch?”) ...
FRANK PETERS lives in Cologne and works as a coach with teams and leaders, to make them a successful and happy team (again)
