How well does your organization choose the best decision-making style?

Our reader poll today asks: How effectively does your organization choose the best decision-making style for a given decision?

– Very effectively — we’re deliberate about choosing the right style: 5.78%
– Effectively — we choose the right style most of the time: 32.13%
– Not very effectively — we gravitate toward one style irrespective of the decision being made: 43.32%
– What’s a decision-making style?: 18.77%

Different decisions require different styles. Organizations tend to gravitate toward a single decision making style. Whether it’s autocratic, consensus-based, participatory, or democratic, organizations find a style that’s comfortable as a default. The problem is that many times it’s exactly the wrong style for a given decision. The better you understand the 4 decision making styles, the more effectively you can apply them to make better and faster decisions.

Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 200,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.