I often marvel at how people look at business leaders and criticize their decisions. They think – the decision there seems so obvious – why does the CEO not see it and make the easy decision. Well – more often than not – there are many more underlying factors that relate to the decision that most people are unaware of. So – in actuality – it is a situation where the CEO is making the tough decision and in doing so makes that decision look easy when in fact it was not.

In fact – I often caution people – if you cannot make difficult decisions / make them quickly / and make them with conviction then I would caution you about thinking of being CEO of an organization. All you do is make decisions all the time – and very few are as easy as they appear…