Every leader is required to make important decisions regarding long-term development of her/his company / department.  The leader must thoroughly investigate the important decision from all possible sides before he applies it on the company / department.  Please below find four actions facilitating better decisions:

To be good leaders, managers, leaders means to continually enhance the subordinates’ performance by watching their backs:  providing a safe working environment for the employees to act, learn, and take calculated risks;  protect them from unnecessary distractions and any external idiocy of any stripe;  and creating hundreds of small scenarios to help them achieve one small success after another (regardless of the size of the success it has a huge positive impact on people’s motivation) and feel dignity and pride along the way.

A key factor in the effectiveness of the techniques is the selection of people who will use them and the overall group skills.  Generators of good ideas are a rare kind of people.  These people know how relatively accurately to predict what will happen in the future H if we start today activities A + B + C. When you encounter such a talent, please take care to enter it in the "green" notebook – the one with a list of people who have the potential to help your success.

The desire to obtain approval affects our decisions and actions.

The excessive need for approval leads to decisions and actions pleasing the people, whose approval we seek at the cost of the “right” decisions and actions.

Low need for approval leads to self-isolation and loneliness.

D. Marlowe and D. Crown’s test allows evaluating our desire to get approval on our actions and words from the people surrounding us.

Peter is your best employee in that department and you promote him to Customer Service Manager.

6 months later you find out that Peter is still your best employee, but he is not appropriate for manager.   He fails to praise and reprimand his subordinates, sets low department goals, etc.  You have set 2 business objectives: