What kind of decisions are you making as a small business owner? When running your business you need to make decisions, they need to be smart and strategic ones. As a leader when you make a decision you have to stop and think, how is this going to effect my business. Your decisions effect you, your business, your employees and your customers. Mistakes happen, you don't want to make the same mistake over and over. Look at your business history and see what failure it has had. When you make a decision make sure you planed out everything, you want to make the best decision for the business, yourself, your employees and your customers. When you make a decision you want to inspire. Inspiration is when your decision becomes part of folklore and so inspires a new pattern of behavior. Few of the greatest decisions occurred in the boardroom, during regularly scheduled planning sessions. Opportunities and threats appear uninvited or unannounced. The key to greatness, then, is to know how to respond intelligently on the fly.