One key to decision effectiveness:

One key to decision effectiveness: ensuring that your organization's mission-critical positions are filled by people with the ability to make and execute good decisions.

to reach that point, an organization must first define which position are critical. When the shipping company Maersk was ramping up its business in China, for instance, the firm used for broad criteria to identify mission-critical roles: financial impact, degree of complexity, influence on key customer relationships, and effect on the skills required to execute that strategy. For example, several critical roles related to internal logistics-transporting goods from growing economic central and western China to seaport in the south and east.