Hello and welcome to Radical Cander, a podcast from Panoply and Gretchen Rubin's Onward

project about how not to hate the boss you have or be the boss you hate.

I'm Russ Larraway, co-founder of Cander Inc. and career-long operational manager across

the Marines, Google, and Twitter.

And I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Canter Inc. also.

And former executive at Google and Apple and CEO coach at Qualtrix Dropbox and a bunch of other great companies.

I'm also the author of a Radical Cander.

So welcome to another weekly episode of Radical Cander.

Today we're talking about one of the most important things that needs to get done

at work, decision making. Decisions are critical to getting things done, but a lot of us are

still really bad at making them. Usually the biggest problem is not that you're making the wrong

decisions. It's usually that you're not making any decision

at all. Whether you're the employee or the boss, this is a huge problem. Being indecisive or too

focused on getting everything perfect isn't helping anyone. So in today's episode, we'll talk about

the danger of not making decisions, of course, with our own horror stories.

We'll also talk about why people often have so much trouble making decisions.

And as always, we'll share our tips for decision making in the candor checklist.

All right, here we go.

So, Russ, what happens when people fail to make decisions?

Maybe it's pretty clear that this might have bad consequences, but let's share a couple of stories

from our own careers. Yeah, first, I just want to say that it's especially bad when bosses

refuse to delegate or make decisions, when they're kind of

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