- Unless you are willing to take a risk, you will suffer paralyzing
inhibitions, and you will never do what you are capable of
doing. Chained by fear you become a slave. You forfeit your
freedom for security. We are sometimes afraid of losing money,
losing face, losing position, but what about losing opportunities? If
we don’t make a decision, if we don’t act boldly, that’s what will
happen...If you wait until all possible obstacles are overcome,
then you will never do anything.^41
- Peter Drucker said: “Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.”^42
- The time to be absolutely worried is when you are comfortable
- absolutely comfortable.^43
- The element of risk. The leader has no way of knowing
the actual results of his decision. That means each decision
contains an element of risk. Some leaders are reluctant to take
risks and as a result have problems making decisions. The good
decision-maker learns to calculate risks and make them work
for him in the decision-making process.
When evaluating alternatives, the leader should consider the
risks involved in each potential decision. However, he should
not try to eliminate all risk. The best decision is not necessarily
the alternative with the least risk. As a general rule, risks
decrease as facts and information increase.^44
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