2. Entrepreneurial Achievers Are Highly Decisive

All the desire in the world is of little value without an accompanying decision to go for it, often in spite of considerable organizational or institutional resistance. As speaker Dave Yoho says, "The power of any idea is measured by the resistance it attracts." 

Market research is a popular way to avoid a decision. It's used many times to defer a decision, rather than improve one. Insecure managers seeking to create maximum cushions for themselves point to market research if they're wrong and take credit for the decision if they're right. A decisive achiever, however, always seeks to move things forward.

A second way to delay decisions is to form a committee. Unfortunately, committees seldom make significant decisions. Many committees exist not to make decisions, but to avoid them. And when they can't avoid them, the depersonalized decision relieves the participants of the risk of being wrong. Indecisive people tend to form committees—and belong to them. For obvious reasons, decisive achievers avoid committees when possible.

Effective decision-making is not a group function. Rather, ideal decisions come from one person, an individual tuned to opinion and consensus, but having the courage to stand up in the crowd and tell it like it is. And not look back.

The ability to make decisions and be comfortable with them is a primary characteristic of achievers. Thank God!