Leadership’s Decisiveness |
Perhaps, no person can qualify to be a leader should the ability to firstly decide and thence to be decisive about it be absent. The verb “decide” and the adjective “decisive” must co-exist in a person who is given command over people, resources and, significantly, if the responsibility of the leader also covers being an “influencer” or “thought leader”.
Managers/Leaders have to make a choice between options; this selection from amongst the available alternatives is decision-making. It is generally believed that the process of decision-making is usually slower than taking decisive actions. The connotative meaning derived here is that decisive leaders act fast, while those who choose to arrive at a decision after a thorough and careful evaluation of alternatives are slower to decide. This is not true. Decision-making and decisiveness are not about the speed of arriving at a decision; instead, decisiveness is more relatable to being confident about the decision taken.
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Leadership is to do the right things, but also in the right manner. There can be no licence for doing the right things by using unfair or unacceptable techniques. Robin Hood’s objectives were noble, but the means were not. The decisive aspect emerges following a decision. The decision, therefore, in the first place has to be housed within the confines of absolute honesty and sincerity of purpose and of the expected outcome. It is then only that decisiveness can be displayed.
A decisive leader exhibits that trait whilst evaluating and analysing the given situation. A decisive leader........