Do you have dreams in your life? I hope so, but dreaming alone is not enough. If you really mean it, you have to transform dreams into goals. Otherwise you might end up being busy without getting anywhere. A lack of focus and direction will automatically lead to a lack of achievement.
Decision-making is a central skill that we associate with a leader. In project management we encounter many situations where we have to make decisions with only limited information available. The less information we have the more important it gets to assess their credibility correctly.
The customer is furious, our team is frustrated and demotivated and the general atmosphere is DEFCON 2. We’re talking cuban missile crisis here. The schedule and budget are overrun and the machine we are supposed to deliver, though working in principle, is not build to spec.