Mailander Podcast
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Mailander Podcast
Decision Bias: Find the Subtle Influences on Your Decision-Making
A quick exercise for CEOs to better understand how their decision-making is influenced by key actors, both in overt and subtle ways.
In this excerpt from Decidedly, a podcast focused on helping private company CEOs, family offices, and HNWs manage their wealth, Mailander describes a process for revealing the subtle but profound influences on your own decision-making. It is an exercise frequently used with CEOs who are members of YPO in a workshop format.
The exercise involves identifying the overt objective the CEO seeks to attain – whether that be an M&A or exit from their business, a recapitalization, a reorganization, the pathway for generational succession, or to growth the company’s enterprise value to the greatest extent value. Then, the CEO is to identify the eight people (from both within the company or from the CEO’s personal life), which are most influential to how the CEO will think, perceive, and react to alternative pathways to achievement of the end goal.