Making Decisions
by Stuart Livesey
Decision making in small business is often something that’s done one the run. With a million demands on your time and your thought processes you still find time to make important decisions. And with all that stress impacting on you it’s quite possible to make the wrong decisions.
Even if you set aside time for a business meeting with your partner/s or others who may have some useful input you can still face a lot of distractions if you try and conduct the meeting while your business goes on around you.
Fortunately Toni and I learned early on that the best place to make important decisions was anywhere but right there in the middle of where we do business. In the past we’ve gone for coffee, gone for a walk, gone for a drive and even gone for dinner and invariably come up with the best solutions simply because we’ve been removed from all the things that would normally distract us.
You should try it the next time you have some important decisions to make, you might find that it works for you too.
Lunch three hours down the coast yesterday gave us plenty of time to make some important decisions and to stay focused on our core business goals.
