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Getting organised eases making of decisions in firms

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Something as simple as organising your desk can enable you achieve what common people can describe as miracle. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The success of any business entirely depends on the ability its leaders to make good and timely decision.

Big companies have boards of directors and management who contribute in making key decisions that guide the firm and ease implementation process. Most individual and family businesses largely depend on one person making most of the key decisions without moderators.

It is advisable that a firm of appreciable size have a management team to help making decisions ranging from policy to daily operations. This minimises wrong decisions or error judgement errors that can send the firm spinning.

In addition to this as business owner ensure you increase your capacity to make accurate and informed decisions most of the time. This can be done by taking care of yourself. Some of the things that affect your ability to make good decisions include poor health, lack of sleep, stress and poor outlook towards life.

In today’s busy life it is easy to sacrifice health eating and exercise as you strive to meet deadlines and strive to become more effective as a leader. But in real sense poor eating and lack of exercise in addition to posing a myriad of health risks lower your concentration, clarity of mind and ability to make sound judgements.

Good sleep and some daily quiet time to meditate, think and reflect on issues around you bring unmatched clarity in your life.

Do not always be on, ‘on your marks’ mode to jump out and chase opportunities out there. A smart woodcutter takes more time sharpening the axe than felling the tree. A fool does the opposite. Spend more time on planning and analysing things and scenarios surrounding you.

Look at the bright side of life. You hardly find a businessman confessing how good things are. Most will talk how things are tougher and worse than in yester years, even though they were still complaining in those years.

The things you confess daily affects your thoughts and actions and consequently your level of success. Things cannot be perfect or go your way always but you have enough things to be grateful for regardless of how your business is doing. Avoid grumbling about your employees, customers, competitors, economy and other things and set your mind free to make decisions that can improve the situation or mitigate the effects.

Finally get organised. How well your office is organised influences your ability to make quick and accurate decisions. If you have a well-orgarnised plan of action, you know what need to be done by who and by when, you increase not only the speed of making decisions but also accuracy.

Something as simple as organising your desk, your files and having a diary and writing down a to-do list every day can enable you achieve what common people can describe as miracle.

One of the things that bring confusion and bungle decisions making process is having too much to do and not having an orderly way of doing them.