How to Optimize Decision Making - Madelaine Weiss

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We explore how to optimize decision-making with Madelaine Claire Weiss. A Harvard-trained licensed psychotherapist, executive, career, and life coach, Weiss' expertise lies in helping high-stress professionals navigate work and life. Her distinctive approach is deeply rooted in her own life experiences, including overcoming the sudden loss of her father to work-related stress when she was just 15.

One of the dilemmas we all face is decision fatigue – the overwhelming feeling resulting from making numerous decisions daily. It's a common misconception that the more significant a decision, the more time we should spend on it. However, Weiss guides us to understand that decisions are challenging because they often involve weighing pros and cons. Fear of making a mistake can lead to inertia, which is damaging as 66% of people will not follow a hesitant leader.

Weiss shares valuable insight into optimizing our decision-making processes. Recognizing that perfect information is an illusion, exhausting ourselves in its pursuit is futile. Instead, she recommends designing actionable steps that are neither too big nor too small. This approach prevents decision paralysis and builds decision-making confidence. And most importantly, she emphasizes that the outcome of our decisions depends more on what we make of them than the decisions themselves.

Weiss believes in nurturing commitment to our goals and consistency in our actions. This commitment, she explains, needs to be developed and protected through practice.
Weiss is a former mental health practice director, a corporate chief organizational development officer, and associate director of the Anatomical Gift Program at Harvard Medical School.

She has been featured on NBC, W4WRadio, Fox TV, Talk4TV, written for Thrive Global, Authority Magazine’s Editor’s List, is an opinion columnist for CEOWorld Magazine, and presented for The American Bar Association, Harvard Law School, The International Association of Business Communicators, National Association of Realtors, DC Academy of General Dentistry, AARP, Wharton Innovation Summit, and the Bureau of National Affairs.

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