Smart decision making is about knowing that you cannot remain still, knowing that the country has to keep moving forward, adapting to changing internal and external dynamics. It is also about developing a culture of smart execution, and not just having supposedly great paper strategies. For without smart execution, you have nothing.
Execution is not just about taking decisive action, it is also about taking timely action. Unresponsive 5-year plans, or rigid priorities that are set once and cannot be revisited even when conditions change, are a recipe for disaster. Continuous consultation, perpetual and timid postponement of action, are enemies of progress.
In these turbulent times it is sometimes necessary to turn on a tickey. Smart leadership is having the confidence to execute this without skipping a heart beat.
Smart decision making is also about making tough choices. It is about creating the conditions where your citizens know and accept that to have a prosperous future, they have to accept and endure the pain of today, the pain of transition from one phase in their forward motion to the next.
Easy choices are easy to make, and they make for transient happiness and satisfaction, but they mean harder and more painful decisions later. The time for hard choices is now.
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