The other day I was just skimming through an wonderful piece of work by Peter F. Drucker called “the effective executive”. One of the important abilities of an effective executive as suggested by Drucker, is the ability to make effective decisions. He highlights some key differences between effective decision makers and the ineffective ones. Decision-making is only one of the tasks of an executive. It usually takes but a small fraction of his time.

Why experience and intuition can ruin decision making? There is more than one way. There is always more than one way. There is more than one way. There is always more than one way. This simple credo can be a practical beacon throughout our professional life, leading us to consider alternatives in how software might be organized and how people might be organized. But recognizing alternatives also carries a burden, the burden of making decisions.