Decide and Conquer: 44 Decisions That Will Make or Break All Leaders

DECIDE AND CONQUER: 44 DECISIONS THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK ALL LEADERS Success boils down to one thing: making good decisions. Learn the right framework now that can make all the difference later when faced with terrible options, deep anxiety and fear of failure.

That's a leader's primary job: making smart decisions. Even deciding what decisions to delegate and to whom are critical decisions. Leaders should make very few decisions, and for that reason, those decisions have an outsized impact.

The IPO nearly took down Meetup, and COVID could have also, seeing as we were a company dedicated entirely to facilitating in-person events at a time when you couldn't responsibly meet in person.

But instead of failing, Meetup is now more profitable today than at any time in its eighteen-year history. And we are reinvesting that profit by meaningfully improving our organizer and member experiences.

I lived on Houston Street, and everything was shut down south of us for a few weeks. People in our apartment building started to make eye contact in a way that they never had before and they would ask you how you're doing.

When people said hello to each other, you got this very palpable sense of community... I realized that what I should do is help people self-organize to form local communities.

Scott created millions of potential Meetup events by listing topics as far-ranging as Chihuahua lovers to ADHD support groups. No event would happen until at least four individuals responded that they would attend, and that would trigger an email to them that the event was a go.

He then selected three locations as potential venues and had attendees select their preferred location. He made it as easy as possible to organize and attend events and seeded millions of potential opportunities.

I had been the last person in the world to think that local community gatherings, or people turning to each other, are important. But this really hit me...

I came across Frances Cairncross's The Death of Distance, who says that in the cyber-future, distance won't matter anymore; you can be best friends with people in a sort of virtual world. But I was realizing just how important face-to-face was.