The Decision Debt

Every decision you put off is quietly charging interest. Who is paying it?

The restructure "under review" since last spring. The senior hire who isnt working. The product that should have been retired a year ago. Most leaders have no shortage of decisions. The trouble is that theyre carrying them, and the cost is mounting where nobody can see it.

The Decision Debt shows how every decision a leader delays, dodges or half-makes builds up a debt that compounds: lost momentum, confused teams, missed chances and a constant, low hum of stress. It explains why capable, conscientious people stall, and how they can move again.

Warm, practical and free of jargon, this book shows you how to:

- recognise the fear, perfectionism, consensus traps and politics that keep decisions stuck

- triage the decisions on your desk and clear the costliest first

- tell doors that swing from doors that lock

- know when you have enough information, and decide well under pressure

- delegate decisions, communicate them so they stick and own the calls that go wrong

- build a team that decides at the right level and the right speed

Through the stories of a founder with seventeen "nearly made" decisions, an operations director trapped in his own steering group, a finance director whose papers were brilliant and late, and a chief executive who had perfected the art of keeping things open, The Decision Debt offers a clear, humane way to get unstuck.

For managers, executives and founders who are tired of carrying what they havent yet decided.

Pay it down. Move again.