0019 - Making Data Driven Decisions ft Aidan Eyakuze

I believe that one of the cradles of leadership is decision making. Our ability as leaders to make decisions will determine the quality and the course of our leadership. I think the year 2020 has been a wonderful illustration of this. We have judged, we have labeled, we have categorized many worlds, corporate and religious leaders because of their decision making. Now since decision making is one of the cradles of leadership, It is in all our best interests to elevate our ability to make decisions that move us, our people, and the organizations we’re leading to the agreed-upon destination. Now, good decision making is not easy. And one element of decision making that was given a lot of attention by intellectual observers in the year 2020 is BASIS FOR DECISION MAKING. What are you basing your decisions on? Are you basing them on your own intuition or you basing them on actual data? And this led me to ask probing questions, can intuition and data collaborate to make better decisions? Does every decision need to be based on data? Are you supposed to abandon intuition altogether? When are supposed to lean on data and when are supposed to lean on our intuition in making decisions?