Full Description
Decide to Lead explores decision-making and all its complexity. Decision-making is, and has always been at the heart and soul of leadership activity. Leaders are responsible and held accountable for the decisions that are made within the organization, whether they personally make them or not. Enhanced with resources and questions for further reflection, Decide to Lead examines decision-making through the lens of a leader. The book addresses what leaders know: knowledge of self, knowledge of others, and knowledge of one's community and context; how leaders think, with a focus on cognitive systems and the forces that influence decision-making; and what leaders do to set up the conditions for effective decision-making in their organizations. This includes leader actions such as building capacity, designing a decision friendly organizational architecture and effectively employing decision-making models and processes.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Know
Chapter 1 In Search of Self
Chapter 2 Motivation, Trust and Engagement
Chapter 3 Community and Context
Section 2:Think
Chapter 4 Forces that Shape our Decisions
Chapter 5 Frames that Guide Decision-making
Section 3: Do
Chapter 6 Building Capacity: Teams and Networks
Chapter 7 Building the Architecture for Decision-making
Chapter 8 Deciding How to Decide: Employing Different Models.
Chapter 9 Defining the Problem
Chapter 10 Enacting Decisions and Leveraging Impact.
Conclusion
Resources
References
