Encouraging - Decisions

The word decisive comes from the Latin root cedere, “to cut” as in incision, recision, or precision. The word decision means literally “to cut away.” When one makes a decision, one is making choices, which includes the choice of being willing to give something up….Most of the decisions we make in life turn out to be right or wrong not because we were prescient about the future – which, after all, does not exist yet – but because of what we do after we make the decision. And the less confidence leaders have in their ability to stand alone after they make a decision, the less likely they are to make one.

Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (Seabury Books, New York, NY: 2007), 69-70.