Top 38 Leadership Decision Making Quotes
#1. The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.
Archibald Marwizi
#2. I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
#3. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.
Michelle Bachelet
#4. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.
Roshan Sharma
#5. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Mark Miller
#6. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
M. Russell Ballard
#7. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#8. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
#9. All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.
Thomas Jefferson
#10. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
Tony Robbins
#11. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Martin O'Malley
#12. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Paul Gibbons
#13. If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#14. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.
Elton Trueblood
#15. The company's leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.
Pearl Zhu
#16. Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.
H.W. Brands
#17. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#18. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
George Friedman
#19. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.
Paul Gibbons
#20. I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony Blair
#21. Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.
Roy Bennett
#22. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.
David Pietrusza
#23. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
#24. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#25. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#27. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell
#28. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.
Paul Gibbons
#29. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.
Pearl Zhu
#30. Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.
Andy Stanley
#31. Those who depend fully on another person's knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields , but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.
Joelle Charbonneau Independent Study
#32. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.
Frank J. Barrett
#33. All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.
Angie Morgan
#34. Leadership is making the wise decision even when it's hard.
Todd Stocker
#35. Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.
Donald R. Hickey
#36. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Paul Gibbons
#37. Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.
Kennon Callahan
#38. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
