Decisions are one of those things everybody has to make on a regular basis. They can be as simple as which pair of socks to put on and as complicated as where to invest your money for retirement or whether to move your family cross country for a potential new job.
Leaders have to make them too. Daily. They're as simple as deciding when and where to have the staff party and as complicated as what to do when one of your leaders fails morally.
Through it all, there are things we have to learn to be better in the area of decision-making.
We all make mistakes. One proverb says: 'If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.' Rather than becoming paralyzed by mistakes, God calls us to learn from them and move ahead. Past mistakes can be awesome road markers for the future if we utilize them that way.
We need to develop the art of listening. I'm not talking about listening so we can develop a response, but really listening. Listening in order to understand. Another proverb teaches, 'A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird?'
And then, I've often had the sense that you have to be absolutely certain about everything before moving forward, and then I heard someone say: 'You're never going to be more than 90% sure.' That's probably true.
When you have to make a decision and don't make it, well, I guess that's a decision, isn't it?
And be blessed.
Leaders have to make them too. Daily. They're as simple as deciding when and where to have the staff party and as complicated as what to do when one of your leaders fails morally.
Through it all, there are things we have to learn to be better in the area of decision-making.
'When you have to make a decision and don't make it ... I guess that's a decision'
We all make mistakes. One proverb says: 'If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.' Rather than becoming paralyzed by mistakes, God calls us to learn from them and move ahead. Past mistakes can be awesome road markers for the future if we utilize them that way.
We need to develop the art of listening. I'm not talking about listening so we can develop a response, but really listening. Listening in order to understand. Another proverb teaches, 'A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird?'
And then, I've often had the sense that you have to be absolutely certain about everything before moving forward, and then I heard someone say: 'You're never going to be more than 90% sure.' That's probably true.
When you have to make a decision and don't make it, well, I guess that's a decision, isn't it?
And be blessed.
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