McKinsey: Leaders spend 37% of their time deciding, and over half of it is used ineffectively. Fast deciders make high-quality calls 2x more often. Decide, communicate, move. Most doors are two-way.

🧭 Decisiveness is a leadership skill you can train — and my best teacher doesn't work in an office. It's the jiu-jitsu mat. 🥋 On the mat, a half-committed sweep always fails. Wait for perfect certainty, and you're already caught. You learn quickly that hesitation *is* a decision — usually the worst one available. ✨ The behavior that carries over into leadership: commit fully to reversible decisions. If a call can be undone, decide it quickly, communicate it clearly, and move — and save the long deliberation for the true one-way doors. McKinsey's research on decision-making backs the mat's lesson 👇 ➡️ Executives spend **37% of their time making decisions — and more than half of that time is used ineffectively** (McKinsey Global Survey). ➡️ For an average Fortune 500 company, that waste adds up to **more than 530,000 days of lost working time and roughly $250 million in labor costs per year.** ➡️ And the myth that speed hurts quality? McKinsey found organizations that decide quickly are **twice as likely to make high-quality decisions** as slow deciders 💡 The lesson: indecision isn't caution — it's cost. Sort your decisions into reversible and irreversible, and give each only the deliberation it deserves. Speed and quality are teammates, not rivals. 🤔 It also helps that Claude Cowork strips noise from my mornings — fewer open loops competing for attention mean cleaner, faster calls on the few things that matter. 🎓 Harvard and my MBA gave me frameworks for *analyzing* decisions. The mat taught me the other half: at some point, analysis ends and commitment begins. 💬 Fellow leaders: what's your rule for knowing when it's time to stop deliberating and decide? 👇 — Fernando Bello · Author of "Find the Best — A Full Guide for Product Management" · LinkedIn Top Product Management Voice #Leadership #ProductLeadership #ProductManagement #AI #Management #Productivity #GrowthMindset 📚 Sources for the stats: ➡️ McKinsey & Company — "Decision making in the age of urgency" (37% of time on decisions, >half used ineffectively; 530,000 days / ~$250M per year; quick deciders 2x more likely to make high-quality decisions): https://lnkd.in/eqSs6qjE