Decision-Making Under Duress: A Framework for Founders and Leaders

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Social changemakers routinely operate in high stakes, resource scarce environments where the margin for error is thin. Early stage leaders often lack capital, staff, time, information, and reserve capacity, yet are still expected to make consequential decisions under pressure. This interactive session explores how founders and leaders can make better decisions when their personal and organizational resources are depleted. Rather than treating performance under pressure as a matter of individual toughness, the session reframes elite performance under constraint as the ability to reduce the number, complexity, and timing of decisions required in moments of stress. The Social Innovation and Change Initiative SICI https://sici.hks.harvard.edu/ and Harvard Innovation Labs h…

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