Hello, everybody, because everybody does have a buddy. Welcome to the Radical Cander podcast. I'm Kim Scott,

co-founder of Radical Cander and Just Work. And I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.

And I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander podcast.

If you have been following along at home, we've taken a few breaks from our Get Shit

Done Wheel series. But today, we're back with number four on the wheel, which is Decide.

So you've gone through the listening, clarifying, and debating

spokes of the get shit done wheel. You've likely lined up decisions and facts. And hopefully,

Kim, I don't know how big our hopes need to be. We have shoved all the ego, especially our own,

out of the way. Does that actually ever happen

that the ego has been shoved? And we wouldn't really want to shove it totally out of the way.

We just want to manage our own egos, not other people's egos, but our own egos. And we want

systems that mitigate the odds that egos enter in unproductively, I think. So today we will be exploring ego mitigation

strategies and systems. Ego mitigation strategies and systems. Or as Twitter and Square CEO,

Jack Dorsey put it, we want to push decisions into the facts. Kim, you also say you like to have that quote to always get it

right rather than be right. Is that right? Am I getting? Yes. You got it right. Well,

would that it were so easy, but not so fast. In a recent McKinsey survey, 61% of executives said

at least half the time they spent making decisions, and I think

much of that is spent in meetings, at least half the time it was ineffective. And just 37% of

respondents said that their organization's decisions were both high quality and timely. So we want to help. We want to help things

be more timely, better quality, more efficient. Kim, in Radical Candor, you talk about four steps

to follow when making decisions. That's what we'll focus on today. And the first is that it's

really important to understand that if you're the boss,

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