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Where Do You Want To Be in the Next Five to Ten Years?
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ─ Alan Kay There is another technique to help us make a better decision in developing and moving our career forward. You have two choices regarding your future: you can wait for it to happen, or you can invent it and then work to achieve it. In this …Continue Reading
Reflections from Your Best Career Experiences and Finding the Lessons Within
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ─ Confucius The last four blogs looked at how Master Leaders are Master Decision Makers. We will now look at tips that can help you become a …Continue Reading
Double Pro/Con Analysis
A variation on the old pros and cons analysis is the Double Pro/Con Analysis. Once you have seen how powerful and easy-to-use this technique is, you will find many uses for it in both your professional and personal life ─ and you will be able to create and make better decisions. Let me give an example of a decision that …Continue Reading
The 70% Rule
In times of war, decisions have to be made quickly, but the consequences of a wrong decision can be fatal. It is also true that you will never have 100% of the information needed to make a decision. Therefore, to better enable its soldiers to make the right decision more often, the United States Marine Corps developed “The 70% Rule.” …Continue Reading
The Weighted Averages Method of Decision Making
Research has demonstrated that when decision-making reaches a certain level of complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to make a decision because most of us can only keep a certain number of variables in our minds at any one time. Furthermore, there is typically a steep decline in our ability to make decisions once the number of variables exceeds 14. However, …Continue Reading
Master Leaders are Master Decision-Makers
A journalist was interviewing a successful businessman. He asked what his success was based on. The reply was “decisions.” Not being happy with the answer, the journalist asked, “What were those decisions based on?” The answer was “experience.” Still not happy, the journalist asked “how did you get that experience?” The answer – “Bad decisions.” ─ Anonymous Every day …Continue Reading
The Master Leadership Model
All of the interviews I conducted for my book The Seven Strategies of Master Leaders: Featuring key insights from 32 of Canada’s top leaders and all of the studies I have read can be summarized in the seven strategies pictured below. Mastery is being able to use the right leadership strategies combined with the right higher-order skills such as …Continue Reading
