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·      You ask me, the best part of leadership is making decisions.

·      Flinch in the face of those and competitiveness is often lost.

 

Leading people or a business can seem like being a battlefield general – strategies hang in the balance of your decisions. It’s where the action is, and things happen, with or without you. Business often moves at the speed of thought and there’s no time to lose. It’s hard to remake decisions and even harder to rethink nondecisions or indecisiveness. Meaning you must know what you’re doing. When you start a new job, there may or may not be much of an on-boarding process – things like an orientation, a tour and introductions, job training, and formal discussions about policies, cultural norms, and general expectations may or may not be explained. If yes: listen, ask questions, satisfy your curiosity; if no, do the same. You’ll get out of your work what you put into it. It’s been my experience that many companies do a decent job with these things, but they leave as much still to be learned and hope you pick it up from co-workers, or the buddy they assigned to train you. If you have questions, don’t wait – ask them and get to the bottom of your needs. Think of this as your responsibility and you’ll get started more quickly today.

 

Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 – 2001): American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991