We Are Only as Influential as Our Choices Are Smart

As stated previously, vacillating does nothing for your reputation, but being decisively wrong—in your public’s eyes, at least—doesn’t do much for you either. Remember Carly Fiorina?

This is tricky territory. What makes a decision wrong? Is a wrong decision always bad? Is every good decision the “right” one?

In answering these questions, we first need to recognize that making a decision involves two critical steps: (1) the process by which we decide, and (2) the eventual decision itself.

The Decision-Making Process

Most of us have learned over the course of many quandaries that good decision-making processes can lead to bad outcomes, while flawed processes can actually lead to good results. But if we want to increase our chances of making good decisions, we have to put as much emphasis on the “making” as we do on the “decision.”