By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc.
In the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, many of the stories focus on those outliers who were successful, often due to circumstances and luck. What if you have an outlying preference that holds you back? A behavior that, if modified, moves you closer to the norm and makes you more effective? Let’s take a look at Decision Outliers. We’ve all experienced someone who either makes decisions too quickly or too slowly, and for some of us we actually may have one of these tendencies ourselves. (more…)