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Good Decisions Today Are Tomorrow’s
Successes Replayed

When you make good decisions, you set yourself up for success again and again. Each time you make a successful decision, and the outcomes prove it, you have a model to follow and experience to reflect back on when presented with future decisions.

But good decisions come about through good planning, knowing how to create a win-win through soft influence, and being able to evaluate how successful a decision was compared with the goals and objectives first established.

Frankly, if you master the elements of good decision making, and later delegation (which is the implementation of decisions), you’ll prove to yourself and others that you are true leadership material. You won’t have to tell anyone, or brag, or flash your resume around. You and the people around you will see. In short, the results will speak for themselves.

A successful track record of good judgment is built one decision at a time. And each one that delivers the expected result brings more opportunity to be included in more decision making. With so many professionals today clamoring to be “at the table,” it is—more often than not—the proven leaders that get invited.