It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
In fact, make several. Make more decisions could be your three word mantra.
Finally, someone agrees with me. One of the biggest demoralizers in an organization (in my experience) was the lack of someone standing up and just making a decision. Pick a direction. Any direction. It may not be the right decision (and may even turn out to be flat wrong). But, it’s a direction that your employees can latch onto and do something with.
The lack of decisions mean no traction, no effort, no movement. Decisions mean progress.
You can always correct a bad decision. You can’t always recover from the lack of one.
Travis Campbell is a seasoned Linux Systems Engineer with nearly two decades of experience, ranging from dozens to tens of thousands of systems in the semiconductor industry, higher education, and high volume sites on the web. His current focus is on High Performance Computing, Big Data environments, and large scale web architectures.