Lesson 6: Systematic Strategies for Making Hard Calls | Suzy Welch
October 13, 2025
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as posted by the channel“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” This quote from Peter Drucker highlights a key reality of leadership: progress starts with bold choices — and the people willing to make them. Yet making tough calls, especially with high stakes and limited information, requires more than bravery. It takes the right tools and mindset to navigate complexity and move forward with clarity.
In this lesson, Professor Suzy Welch introduces decision-making frameworks to help leaders tackle uncertainty and make impactful decisions with confidence.
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About Suzy Welch:
An award-winning NYU Stern School of Business professor, tech entrepreneur, and three-time New York Times best-selling author, Suzy Welch is known for imparting warmth and wisdom about business and culture, captivating an enthusiastic and expanding audience.
Over the course of her multifaceted 40-year career, Suzy has been a crime reporter in Miami, a consultant at Bain & Co., and a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, she has been (and remains) a frequent guest of the Today Show and an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But Suzy Welch’s greatest passion is in the classroom at NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches two acclaimed classes, “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Life You Want and Need,” and “Developing Managerial Skills.” She is also the director of the NYU | Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, a community of management scholars and practitioners committed to advancing the discovery of authentic meaning.
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