Tips to Better Business Decision Making

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My name is Ken Lear, and I’m an entrepreneur, businessman, and leadership expert.

Learning to make good decisions in business is a requirement for being a great manager. Through using built-up experience and solid logic, better choices can be made that can help a company be more successful. Utilizing tactics that decision makers us can make a tough decision be easier than ever before. Decisions making does not come out of nowhere, it takes years of experience and practice to make the tough choices. Here are a few tips that I follow to make great decisions:

Remove Emotion

Many times when we are evaluating a decision, emotion can play a relative factor. We are all human beings with passion and tend to follow the way our heart tells us to go. For smart decisions to be made in business, we must never allow our emotional ties to cloud our judgment. Tap developing true judgment, and utilize facts to see the consequences of each action taken. Eliminating emotion from decision-making will give you a real sense of the implications the choice will create.

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Utilize the Opinions of Others

Although we may want to make decisions all on our own, outside insight can help greatly when we are at a crossroads. Asking other peers or friends for their opinion can give you more information, and lead you to the right path. See what they believe is the right way , and going from there. They make choose a path that you might not want to follow, but at least you can see a viewpoint of someone else. Gaining their opinion of the right decision will allow you to develop a better hindsight of decision-making.

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Clear Your Mind

The right path comes to us when we least expect it. Typically, we are so enthralled over a predicament that we tend to lose focus on the right answer. By doing things that can clear your mind, you will allow your brain to find the right answer all on its own. Exercising or even meditating can focus your mind on something else for the time being, and let the correct choice come to you. Never spend hours on end worrying over a decision. You have gotten yourself this far to succeed; trust yourself that you will figure it out on your own.

If Your Have A Feeling…

Although I think you should remove emotion from decision-making, you should also take in account your instincts and intuition. There will be times where you will make a decision that people disagree with. However, it is important to take risks and chances once in a while to truly succeed. A great path to success is to do things that no one else has done. Use facts and research to make a decision, but if you’re hesitant to go one way, always go with your gut feeling.