Difficult Decisions

What do you do when the algorithm doesn’t have the answer?

Countless tools and frameworks claim to make decisions objective and bias-free. But in reality, the defining decisions that leaders face are complex ones with subjective information sources and conflicting courses of action. That’s why the toughest choices are left to the leaders, and that’s why formulas won’t answer them.

In Difficult Decisions: How Leaders Make the Right Call with Insight, Integrity, and Empathy, leadership expert and CEO of YSC Consulting, Eric Pliner, delivers a set of practical tools for readers to make sense of these complex, subjective decisions quickly and with integrity. It presents a path to understanding your own subjectivity, and how your morals, ethics, and responsibilities affect how leaders make the most important decisions.

Difficult Decisions is ideal for executives, managers, and business leaders to examine their own intuition and navigate the most conflicted choices they make. It’s a challenging read and an indispensable resource to help readers develop self-reflection, clarify their values, and ultimately make the choice that is most “right” to them.

About the Author

Eric Pliner (New York, NY is CEO of YSC Consulting, a global leadership consulting firm that works with executives at leading companies like Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, and others. Eric leads a hundred YSC consultants in onboarding and executive coaching for CEOs, supporting first-time corporate and private equity-backed CEOs, leading incoming/outgoing CEO transitions, fostering high-performing executive teams, building inclusion and diversity skills among C-Suite leaders, and cultivating successful management team and Board relationships.

Prior to YSC, served in the Bloomberg administration of the City of New York, where he closed out his career in public service as Director of Organizational Talent Management and Development with the Department of Education. Eric’s writing on leadership has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, and a host of other business and industry publications.