Make Faster Decisions (Without Losing Sleep)

Make Faster Decisions (Without Losing Sleep)

From Shannon Waller's Team Success by Shannon Waller

April 30, 2026 · 17 min

About this episode

Shannon Waller discusses frameworks for faster decision-making in teams without compromising on wisdom.

Are you and your team slowing growth by overthinking every decision? In this episode, Shannon Waller shares practical frameworks to speed up decision-making without sacrificing wisdom. Learn how to use the 40-70 rule, distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions, and free your team to move faster with confidence. Download Episode Transcript Show Notes: Most entrepreneurial companies lose momentum, not from bad decisions, but from decisions that take far too long. The speed of your decision-making sets the speed of execution for your entire company. People tend to make every decision using their own natural configuration rather than matching the strategy to the size of the decision. Visionaries often prefer to move fast with minimal information, while expert team members prefer deeper research and detail. Treating every decision like a high-stakes, irreversible choice creates friction, bottlenecks, and frustration on all sides. The 40-70 rule gives you a practical “good enough” guideline so decisions don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis. Less than 40 percent of the information is usually guessing, while more than 70 percent is usually slowing you down. Jeff Bezos’s Type 1 and…

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Host: Shannon Waller

Topics covered

  • decision-making
  • team dynamics
  • entrepreneurship
  • business strategy
  • analysis paralysis

Keywords

  • 40-70 rule
  • Type 1 decisions
  • Type 2 decisions
  • decision speed
  • team confidence

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