“Steering the future of the company” may sound very cool. But being a manager requires mastering many challenging processes. For example, we can look at the above sentence in reverse; you are steering the future of the company, which means that if something goes wrong, you will be responsible.
In this professional position, which is as rewarding as it is challenging, “uncertainty” is just one of the many challenges.
We cannot know the future, so how do managers make decisions that determine the future of the company? How do they navigate through so much uncertainty and ultimately succeed?
Let’s discover together.
First of all, a good manager always accepts the existence of uncertainty and risk. Because it is not possible to achieve great success without taking risks. As such, all successful managers should have a “plan of action in risky situations”. So what should this plan include?
First of all, managers need to accept uncertainty and create decisions and alternative plans that can be adapted to this uncertainty. The ideal method is to keep the plan updated with necessary changes as the process progresses.
There is another method recommended by professionals: Managers should ask themselves the question “What is the worst that can happen?” and create action plans based on their answers to this question. In this way, they think broadly enough not to worry about minor setbacks and are prepared to solve the big ones in a planned manner.
In addition, another recommended attitude for managers is to think like a 4-year-old. You must have seen children in this age group around you, they are always trying to understand and learn many things with questions like “Why?”, “How?”, “What?”. Because the world is an undiscovered treasure for them, so they try to understand the world. In business life, what will happen to the company in the future is a big unknown, so one of the effective methods you can apply as a manager is to constantly try to understand the trends and make connections between events; in other words, aim to make the unknown known.
Finally, to be a good manager, you have to be open to different opinions. As the proverb says, wisdom can be wiser than reason, and you should remember that. Accept that no matter how successful a manager you are, you may miss some details. In this way, your vision will expand, you will be able to make much healthier decisions and minimize risk and uncertainty.
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