Of course, decision making is something we all have to do, but is there a link between good leadership and good decision making?

Some suggest that it is primarily through their decision-making abilities that leaders really show leadership (versus management), I have heard others say that it is also important for good leaders to enable their followers to make the decisions.

Decision making can appear very rational, with an emphasis on gaining lots of information and analysing probabilities, risk etc., but of course there are many cases where this does not happen. Some of you may have heard of Simon's views on bounded rationality and 'satisficing' (doing enough to make a reasonable but not necessarily optimal decision). Mintzberg himself emphasises the role of intuition and time constraints - again some say that better leaders are better at this type of intuitive leap under pressure.

I will try to post more later but does anyone have comments or questions so far?

kind regards
Stephanie

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Dr Stephanie Morgan
Crosslight Management
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Stephanie - I have used this post as a trackback starter on the Crosslight forum which is just starting on the DASA.

Will post relevent documents here as we debate the approach to a performance improvement method for decision making. If BizFace members wish to contribute they can over on the other sister forum

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