Simple Insights…Urgency has a remarkable ability to impersonate wisdom.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Decision-Making
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…Sometimes God does not make the choice for us. He gives us wisdom with which to choose.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The issue is whether a cost will be intentionally assigned—or left hidden until it is silently charged to someone who never participated in the decision.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Do not call fear patience, passivity prayerfulness, endless consultation wisdom, or avoidance consensus-building.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Do not ask your people to carry indefinitely what you have been given the responsibility to resolve.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Do not demand from God a level of certainty that eliminates the need for faith.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Leaders often avoid the immediate, visible cost of action and force other people to absorb the delayed, distributed cost of inaction.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Decisiveness means accepting responsibility for moving the matter toward resolution.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality helps explain what may make a decision difficult for us. It does not excuse us from making it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
That is what makes chronic indecision more than an administrative weakness. It is a failure of stewardship.
~ Leadership Masterworks
A leader who refuses to make a necessary decision has not preserved neutrality.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Indecision is not neutral.
~ Leadership Masterworks
What is the next right thing I must do?
~ Leadership Masterworks
Courage lets fear speak. It simply refuses to give fear the deciding vote.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Commitments have costs, and wise people identify them before beginning.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The invoice for indecision continues accumulating interest.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Not deciding is still a decision—usually one made at someone else’s expense.
~ Leadership Masterworks