{"id":241,"date":"2023-01-19T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:03:39","slug":"the-decision-maker-my-most-effective-leadership-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2023\/01\/19\/the-decision-maker-my-most-effective-leadership-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decision Maker: My Most Effective Leadership Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a leadership position, you learn to deal with uncertainty. I&#8217;ve hired a personal trainer for this discipline. My team calls him The Decision Maker.<\/p>\n<p>He is a true researcher with a proven record of making hard decisions. Having a long-running meeting? Cannot decide about the size of the buttons? General hardships in finding your work-life balance?<\/p>\n<p>Bring The Decision Maker into the room.<\/p>\n<p>You will immediately learn what is important and balance your conflicting priorities by finding good, fast and cheap solutions to satisfy his curiosity (and save your house from total destruction).<\/p>\n<p>Want to upgrade your leadership skills? Here is my two-step plan for you:<\/p>\n<p>1) take a UX course for theory (e.g <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/courses\/design-tradeoffs\/\">&#8220;Design Trade-Offs&#8221;<\/a> by NN\/g)<br \/>\n2) buy a (bloodhound) puppy for practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a leadership position, you learn to deal with uncertainty. I&#8217;ve hired a personal trainer for this discipline. My team calls him The Decision Maker. He is a true researcher with a proven record of making hard decisions. Having a long-running meeting? Cannot decide about the size of the buttons? General hardships in finding your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}