What the Best Decision Makers Do

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🗓️ 24 October 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ram Charan, coauthor of "Boards that Lead," talks about what he's learned in three decades of helping executives make tough decisions.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
0:15.9	Listen and follow coaching real leaders for free
0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:34.5	I'm Melinda Marino, senior editor at HBR.
0:38.0	I'm talking today with world-renowned
0:40.1	business advisor, Ram Sharan, about the topic of decision-making.
0:45.0	Ram is the author of 18 books including his latest book,
0:50.0	Boards That Lead, which he co-authored with Dennis Carey and Michael Yousin.
0:55.0	Ram is the author of a number of important HBO articles and appears in
1:01.0	HBO's current November issue and the spotlight on executive decision making.
1:06.4	In a feature interview called You Can't Be a Wimp, Make the Tough Calls.
1:10.8	Ram also blogs frequently on our site HBR.org.
1:15.0	Ram Sharan thanks so much for talking with us today.
1:19.0	Thank you, Melinda.
1:20.0	I am honored to be able to work with you on this conversation.
1:25.0	Great, great, we have some questions for you.
1:29.0	So you have spent the past 30 years helping hundreds of executives and boards deal with their toughest
1:36.3	decisions. Can you give us a picture of the best decision makers you've worked with, what is it that the best decision
1:45.3	makers do? I think the key here is that there are some routine decisions and
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