<div class="post-img-wrap"><img decoding="async" src="https://yourteamsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TeamSuccessPodcast_MakeFasterDecisions_ep314.jpg" /></div> <div class="podcast-text"> <p>Are you and your team slowing growth by overthinking every decision? In this episode, Shannon Waller shares practical frameworks to speed up decision-making without sacrificing wisdom. Learn how to use the 40-70 rule, distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions, and free your team to move faster with confidence.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://yourteamsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TeamSuccessPodcast_MakeFasterDecisions_transcript.pdf">Download Episode Transcript</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Most entrepreneurial companies lose momentum, not from bad decisions, but from decisions that take far too long.</li> <li>The speed of your decision-making sets the speed of execution for your entire company.</li> <li>People tend to make every decision using their own natural configuration rather than matching the strategy to the size of the decision.</li> <li>Visionaries often prefer to move fast with minimal information, while expert team members prefer deeper research and detail.</li> <li>Treating every decision like a high-stakes, irreversible choice creates friction, bottlenecks, and frustration on all sides.</li> <li>The 40-70 rule gives you a practical “good enough” guideline so decisions don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis.</li> <li>Less than 40 percent of the information is usually guessing, while more than 70 percent is usually slowing you down.</li> <li>Jeff Bezos’s Type 1 and Type 2 decision model helps you match the level of analysis to the real risk of the decision.</li> <li>A Type 1 decision is high-stakes and hard to reverse, so it deserves more time, research, and perspectives.</li> <li>A Type 2 decision is reversible and more experimental, so it should be made quickly so you can learn and adjust.</li> <li>Asking “Can I undo this later?” is a simple filter that keeps you from overbuilding analysis around reversible decisions.</li> <li>You can use dollar amounts or impact thresholds to predefine what counts as a Type 1 versus a Type 2 decision in your company.</li> <li>When leaders treat everything as a Type 1 decision, teams learn to escalate instead of taking ownership.</li> <li>Giving explicit permission for Type 2 decisions frees your team to act rather than waiting for you to approve every move.</li> <li>Many team members will not “ask for forgiveness later” unless you first give them permission and clear boundaries.</li> <li>Tools like The Experience Transformer^® turn every decision, good or bad, into a structured learning opportunity.</li> <li>When people only follow instructions, they don’t build real decision-making capability or take full responsibility for outcomes.</li> <li>You can coach your team by asking what happens if we go in each direction, rather than just answering the question for them.</li> <li>Over time, routing all decisions through a small group at the top builds bureaucracy and slows down innovation.</li> <li>Protecting agility means designing decision frameworks that keep power and problem solving as close to the front line as possible.</li> <li>Entrepreneurial companies win by making small, reversible decisions quickly and iterating based on real feedback.</li> <li>Clear decision rules create confidence for you and your team, which leads to faster action and better learning.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <p><a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.strategiccoach.com/resources/the-multiplier-mindset-blog/transforming-experiences-into-multipliers">Transforming Experiences Into Multipliers</a><br /> <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.kolbe.com/kolbe-a-index/">Kolbe A^™ Index</a><br /> <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.paulhertzgroup.com/what-is-print/">PRINT^®</a></p> </div>