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The best way to get alignment is for someone to own the call, make the decision, and move everyone forward. It doesn't come from talking things through forever.
Long discussions feel safe. They even feel (mistakenly) like progress. But they slow everything down. Like a slow-mo scene from The Matrix. I hate it.
Clear decisions are risky and a bit scary. But they give your team the direction it needs.
Do this If you want faster and cleaner decisions:
Everything a CEO does can be boiled down to 3 main things: Setting direction, enabling people, and driving outcomes.
The best leaders know which of these matters most at any given time, and they shape their schedule around it.
Companies led by someone who understands that balance have a clear edge over those that don't.
Leaders push for speed so hard they forget the basics - a clearly communicated direction.
Everyone understands the direction eventually...once it's downhill.
The way people in an organisation work together towards shared goals forms the core of its culture.
No shared goals? No shared culture. Just meetings with snacks.
The best PMs are detail-oriented.
Even when under pressure to start executing, they still do the work in the background to make sense of it. If it doesn't, they bring it up in a non-confronting, logical way.
I've seen big decisions being reversed because of that, saving the company tens of thousands of dollars that could have been lost by going in the wrong direction where the maths does not stack up.
Hold on to these PMs.
