Placing a Time Limit on Decision-Making Yields Higher Quality Choices

The next time you, or your team, have a big decision to make, Inc suggests using a timer to limit the endless discussion:

“Here’s a messy little truth about most decision-making processes: if you place a firm time limit on discussion and everyone knows there’ll be a vote at a specific time, you’ll get better-quality decisions than if you just let your team run out the clock with endless debate and try to push through an agreement at the end of the meeting when everyone is tired and irritable.”

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