The one thing that separates successful businesses from all others is good decision-making
Improving how you make decisions is probably the single area where businesses can make the biggest impact on their future.
Nobody has a crystal ball, so making the perfect decision every time is nearly impossible, but great businesses have found a way to improve their chances of making better decisions each time.
There are ways for you to give your business a strong foundation for decision-making, which will go a long way to improving the quality of decisions you make.
What do good decisions look like?
Excellent decisions don’t all look the same. They come in a bunch of different packages, and can change the trajectories of many businesses and their owners, like the examples below show:
- Steve Jobs and Apple deciding to develop and then release the iPhone (and even the iPod before it), despite there being no substantial existing market or demand for it
- Naspers investing in Tencent even though the venture was far removed from their existing business model and investments
- Netflix changing its business model as emerging technology changed consumer habits
On the flip side, the list of bad decisions littered through history is endless and filled with names we’ve all heard many times, such as Kodak (failing to pivot), Google (well, those who declined to invest, anyway)… the Titanic (risk management at its worst)… Talk about celebrity-status for all the wrong reasons, something we all want to avoid.
What would better decision-making mean to you and your business?
For you and your business, a great decision might take on a number of different forms. There are probably a few key questions you and your business are asking right now that need to be answered – with a decision.
Questions like:
- Do you continue to invest in a product that hasn’t generated the returns you’d hoped?
- Do you go out looking for funding to scale up, or keep trying to bootstrap the company to grow?
- Do you sell the business (or part of it) now, or wait for a better offer to come along?
The thing is, any one of the big decisions you need to make right now could be what makes your business succeed and sets you apart from the rest.
The real question is actually whether you’re equipped to make the best decisions you can, regardless of what the decisions are.
So how do we make better decisions?
There are three key ingredients that a business needs in place to make the best decisions it can.
Having one in place is helpful, and having two is incredibly useful. But with all three, you’ll sleep better at night knowing you’ve got what you need to tackle anything that comes your way.
It’s quite easy to get started making better decisions:
- Complete your details at the bottom of this page
- Complete the Business Maturity Assessment questionnaire
- We’ll send you your Business Maturity Assessment report within 48 hours, along with further details about the decision-making journey.
We want to show you how to incorporate the three key ingredients into your business for making better decisions, and to help you get started, we’re going to provide the Business Maturity Assessment mentioned above at no cost to you.
You can get started right now without any obligation.
Start your journey to better decisions
That’s right, for a very short time you can complete the assessment and get your report absolutely free.
Normally we charge over R1,000 for this report because it gives you a framework you can use to better understand your business, develop a strategy with and grow from for years to come.
Get started now
Fill in your details below and you’ll be able to start the assessment right away.
It’s quite quick and will take about 15 minutes. We’ll also email you a link in case you’re unable to complete it right now, and you can go back to it when you have a bit more time.
See you on the other side!