What you need to do to make better decisions

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What you need to do to make better decisions

Several recent McKinsey Quarterly articles take on the age-old question of what companies and leaders need to do to up their decision-making game.

Three keys to faster, better decisions

Decision makers fed up with slow or subpar results take heart. Three practices can help improve decision making and convince skeptical business leaders that there is life after death by committee.

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Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones

Executives often assume that speed comes at the cost of quality in decision making. A survey challenges this belief and offers tips on getting the best of both worlds.

Ensure quality

Want a better decision? Plan a better meeting

Effective meetings produce better business decisions. Yet too many decision meetings are doomed from the get-go. You can do better.

3 big questions

Five Fifty: Decision factories

Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”

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