How to make a sensible decision in the toughest situations?

1. Consider whether or not you will be able to look proudly into the mirror the next day. -Marcia Jones

2. Reflect on past difficult decisions and how you made them. The problems don’t have to be similar for the method to work the same. -Gentry Harvey

3. Meditate and listen to your instincts. ~Stacey Chandler

4. Meditate on how it affects balance within your life. Then have the faith and will to carry out by action. -Isaac Guest

5. Set aside time to give careful thought to the decision. The worst thing you can do is act in haste. -Dana David

6. Ask yourself, “Who will it affect and what does my heart tell me?” -Phyllis McBride Molhusen

7. Imagine having made the decision. If you get a feeling of relief, that’s the way to go, even if it’s coupled with sadness. -Emma Gilding

8. Ask yourself, “What is the most pleasurable choice, and where is the most fun?” -David Heisler

9. Check with your internal compass. How will you feel if you make one decision? How will you feel if you make the other? -Kyczy Hawk

10. Make mistakes and learn from them. -Sandra Leigh

11. Talk it through with friends. Then after you have gathered as much info as possible, decide and act! -Charlene Wood

12. Make a patient effort and have confidence in yourself as decision maker. Whatever choice you make is valid, as you can gain experience and wisdom through any experience, preferred or not. -Meagan Le Dagger

13. Let go of fear. Know there is no “right” or “wrong” decision. Any decision is better than indecision -Deidre Americo

14. Ask yourself three questions before diving into something new or daunting: What’s the worst that can happen? How likely is that to happen? Can you deal with it? -Long Ho

15. Go with your first instinct. The minute you second guess yourself or doubt your choice, then it goes all downhill from there. -Kelsey Walsh

16. Take a moment to think about the consequences of every course of action, and decide which course will be best for everyone. -Daniel Roy

17. Try to see the situation from all angles. Also ask your elders for advice. They are always great sources! Sometimes you need to walk away from the issue for a bit, and then come back for a fresh look. -Lisa Marie Josey

18. Remember this quote: “Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.” -Paulina Angelique

19. If you find that you have to talk yourself into something, it is usually a bad decision. Good decisions usually feel right without much second-guessing. -Triana Avis

20. One method is to contemplate options and select the one that you feel a sense of excitement for. -Katherine Melo Sipe

21. “Stay in the tension” as long as possible. If neither choice feels right, try to delay making the decision. Sometimes a third option you hadn’t thought of before becomes open. -Jody Bower

22. Listen to your emotional instinct. If it feels good, authentically good, then go for it. If it does not use caution and back away. -Dedric Carroll

23. Ask yourself two questions: Is this choice good for me? Is this choice good for my family? Then listen to what your heart says. -Andrew J. Kelley

24. Make the small decisions with your head and the big ones with your heart. -Emily Keith

25. Take a step back and try to stop thinking so much. -Liz Morton

26. Take two pieces of paper and write down your options on each. Put them in a hat, close your eyes, and pick one. If you feel disappointed with the outcome, then you know that is the wrong decision to make! -Dina Agnessi-Lorenzetti

27. Reflect on my past decisions. Good or bad, each teaches a lesson. To learn by your mistakes is key, but don’t forget your triumphs. They are just as important. -Mick Roman

28. Think about how you will feel when you’re 70. First, it will put the difficult decision into perspective (maybe it’s not as big a deal as you think it is) and secondly, it will help you make a good decision for the long term, rather than just for instant gratification. -Andrew Gills

29. Have a good, deep, non-judgmental look at what’s inside you, and journaling also helps. -Indigo Perry

30. Align your actions with your life purpose and personal values, and then it’s much easier to know the direction that is right for you. The prerequisite to this is actually knowing and defining yourself. Gain awareness. Be true to who you really are. Follow the path of least resistance. -Self Improvement Saga

How to Make a Sensible Decision in the Toughest Situations? It is easy to be paralyzed for managers when they are forced to make decisions in tough situations, especially in those where they have understood all the facts and done all the analysis, but still cannot figure out what to do.

WHAT ARE THE NET, NET CONSEQUENCES of all my options? Open your mind and put aside the initial assumption about what should be done, assemble a panel of trusted advisers and experts, and consider together with them every course of available actions and their consequences in the real-world, thoroughly and analytically. Meanwhile, it could be very useful to have a second pair of eyes to question your thinking and preventing you from rushing to conclusions or falling into the trap of group-thinking.

WHAT ARE MY CORE OBLIGATIONS? Step out of the comfort zone, put yourself in the shoes of all stakeholder groups, especially the most disadvantaged ones, and identify your biases and blind spots. The best way of doing that is speaking directly to the people who will be affected by your decision, or ask someone to role-play the stakeholders or outsiders as persuasively as possible.

WHAT WILL WORK IN THE WORLD AS IT IS? After considering the consequences and duties, now you need to think about practicalities – which of your possible solutions to the problem is most likely to work? To answer this question, managers can do a stakeholder analysis and evaluation to understand the power or force of each party, and then choose out the most resilient solution based on the analysis.

WHO ARE WE? This question requires managers to step back and think about the decision they made from lens of its relationships with and values for the team, the organization, and a broader community. Just imagine you are writing a paragraph in your organization’s history, which solution you might choose could best reflect what your organization stands for?

CAN I LIVE WITH MY DECISION? Good managers commit to, act on, and live with the consequences of their choice. So the decision you made must reflect what you really care about as a manager and a human being. Writing down your decision and the reasons for it allows you to think more clearly over it.

Making tough decisions is the responsibility that managers cannot escape from. When you have to make a sensible decision in a tough situation, your job isn’t finding solutions; it’s creating them with your judgment

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As already very goods points have been mentioned I would like to share my views.

First of all we all know every problem has an solution,

In that particular situation, try to find out what is the root cause of the problem where such tough situation has been created.

Once you got the problem than check for the options to solve it, you can do discussion with others take their views etc..  

Now when you have both the root cause of the problem and a solution to solve it, than you can take the sensible decision  in any tough situations.

Hope you will appreciate my answer.

1. Think hard before taking a decision but then stick to it.

2. Convey the reasons properly with all stake holders

3. Plan risks and mitigation if things don't go according to plan

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The British government notifies the company Virgin Trains Virgin Trains she had lost the rights to run the rail line to the west coast of the United Kingdom. It is worth mentioning that the Virgin Rail company has line management, who valued the rights to run seven billion pounds for a period of fifteen years, during which increased the number of passengers from 13 million passengers to 30 million passengers annually.

Richard Branson, founder and CEO of Virgin Group companies wrote in his book on the Virgin way: all I know about leadership that he was surprised and embarrassed that he lost the operating right to rival First Group.

Tempering Branson began to meet with lawyers and advisers to see if the company had lost the competition fairly Virgin, and all came from speaking with them Branson estimates that the British government made a mistake in its calculations because the display First Group Inc. does not compare Bardhm.

Your project will not be without emerging from the strategic problems: how to overcome them with confidence?

Despite this, many of his aides advised him not going to sue the British government which will take a very long time and without interest, but after thinking Branson decided to invoke to crack.

One week from the date of the hearing of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom before, contact the Minister of Transport, the British government Beranson to teach him that after auditing the ministry discovered that she erred accounts are very large and it certainly Virgin offer is the best.

Mark Branson's decision to sue the government This is one of the most right decisions taken in his life, despite the enormous risks, which in turn has maintained for Virgin Trains, which are as follows Branson tells us four steps mentioned in the book on how to make the tough decisions.

1. Do not take emotional reactions

Branson says he was surprised when he learned that the Virgin deal for the trains did not go well, but the reality of his experience to ease the opinion first to gather sufficient information and that does not make his feelings control his decisions. He had the time to make a statement to the press ..

It is frustrating or sue the British government based on instinct rather than the study of the facts would have been in the unenviable position, and also makes it clear that this applies equally when the chill, positive feelings toward something do not let emotions control Baqraratk.

Your steps process to draw up a professional plan for the road to success

2. Try to find all defects thoughts

Branson is always trying to put in front of him all the wrong scenarios any idea before the decision taken to build it, and talk about the issue of the railway has lawyers Branson telling him that he has a chance only 10% to earn the issue of the prosecution of the British government.

But then it collected evidence to confirm the existence of a defect in his opponent held in favor of Virgin lifted the Alqdahoho are confident that with the right support and the public in the case.

3 prior to his decision to the Branson calculates the impact of this decision on other projects in the medium and long term, Branson Coordination well in his book, "this opportunity was missed too hard, but is its effect on other Almcharaawalooloyat? Is it possible to postpone the project for some time? If you have to choose one of the projects, what is it and why? "

And Branson mentions an example of the best examples to ignore the big picture when he went Mickey Arison, CEO of Carnival Carnival for the game of basketball in Miami at the same day when one sank from cruise ships his company off the coast of an Italian island in 2012, killing 32 and injuring many others.

Branson and adds that Mikey continued to discredit his company when he repeated the same act after less than a year and was one of the company's ships have run out of gas and forced the passengers to wait five days at sea without water or any other source of energy.

His nascent failure .. turned to leading a successful business!

4. risk protection

 The best lesson he learned from his father how he sheltered from the risks and how to reduce losses before embarking on a new business. Branson's father told him that he could not complete his education Althanoahwaltafrg school to create student magazine only if he sold what Vimith four thousand pounds Astrellne of publicity on the cover and the pages of the magazine

And are the same strategy applied in 1984 when he moved a big leap from the music industry to the aviation industry through the creation of Virgin Atlantic Virgin Atlantic, when he persuaded his partners in the Company's filings that agree to the aircraft deal where he agreed with Boeing Boeing, said the company will return the plane after a year of completion of the transaction in the event that things did not go as planned.

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Thanks for the invitation. I agree with the given decisions from the experts.

tough decisions are the part of manager's job. that defines the ability of him/her taking decisions. in a tough situation one should see the outcomes of all the possible decisions and see the most effective one. but sometimes mangers have to decide for the benefits of the long runs and has to be more patient and high temperament. any decision taken with full confidence can also achieve more efficiency form the team members to confidence and body language is also the key. 

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i agree with Mr mohammed rabie & Ahmed

By being calm & composed , no matter what the situation is . Weigh the pros & cons of prospective decision you are planning to take.

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Agreed with expert nice reply