The Art of Decision Making

The Art of Decision Making (A Guide to Executive Decision-Making in Africa)

Everyday executives and managers working across Africa have to make decisions the outcome of which could make or mar their careers. Apprehensive and concerned about the consequences, some executives spend hours seeking and gathering information to guide the decisions. Others, paralyzed by fear of the consequences, chose to do nothing hoping time will solve the problem; yet others rush headlong into making a decision in order to get it over with or cede the decision to be made to a subordinate to avoid taking the blame if the decision goes wrong. Any of these may lead to a less than desirable outcome detrimental to the organization.

The Art of Decision Making (A Guide to Executive Decision-Making in Africa) provides managers and executives working in Africa, as well as business owners and directors, useful perspectives on: how the effective executive takes decisive action; reason why executive end up making wrong decisions; the effect of psychological biases on decision making; dealing with uncertainties in a volatile operating environment; how culture, ethics and religion affect decision made by executives in Africa; how paucity of information or information overload gets in the way of good decisions; and approaches and steps to good decisions-making. This book also features CEO’S from small to large companies sharing their approach to aspects of decision-making in each chapter.