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A Guide to Smarter Decision-Making For Startup Leaders
Follow these three principles to keep moving fast, but slow down just enough to steer well
There’s one thing I’ve done in leading tech teams that’s improved our performance more than anything else.
It’s been important when I’ve led teams in large companies, but it’s been crucial when leading teams in the more uncertain and unstructured environment of a startup.
I’ve worked on making smarter decisions.
I have to admit that early in my career I bumbled along making decisions quite unconsciously. Bad results often followed. Worse still, I thought that speed was the only metric that mattered in a startup — so everything was a snap decision.
Luckily, I stumbled across the academic work on decision-making. It blew my mind when I realized that decision-making is a skill! An important skill that I could hone.
In this article, I’ll share my experience learning to hone my decision-making ability as a leader. I’ll also share three simple principles I rely on to make smart decisions in the fast-paced startup environment.