
How to help your team navigate personal challenges
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by Sameh Abadir Published 17 November 2021 in Brain circuits • 2 min read
In every crisis there are winners and losers, so we have spent a lot of time talking to and researching leaders who have been successful in times of crisis. There are three key things these leaders understand that you should embrace when your company faces tough times.
It is a terrible situation to haggle over a decision in a meeting and then come out of the meeting and keep debating. Debate needs to end. Once the decision is made, people need to get behind it. Democracy in the meeting phase is good, but in the execution phase zero democracy is better. In other words, there should be high democracy in decision-making and zero democracy in execution. You must come to the best decision possible based on the information you have, and then act on it, even though you might be wrong.
If you have these three factors firmly under control, you can lead your company effectively through even the toughest crisis.
Professor of Leadership and Negotiation at IMD
Sameh Abadir is a Professor of Leadership and Negotiation at IMD. He is the co-director of IMD’s Negotiating for Value Creation program (NVC) and is co-director of IMD’s signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP).
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