From the Founder
I created Executive Decisions as a publication because of two major stories in my business life. The below business stories highlight the why behind the focus on talent management in leadership and business on Executive Decisions.
As for what inspired Executive Decisions as a media publication, I have eliminated the names in the below story intentionally.
During college, I read the [PUBLICATION A] religiously. At one point, I even had a vision of being [ACCOMPLISHMENT FROM PUBLICATION A]. My final year of college, it published two articles I knew lacked truth. To be fair to [PUBLICATION A], it later updated the articles to admit this. Regardless, I terminated reading the publication and have never read an article from it again.
In 2016, I concluded that [PUBLICATION B] was a destructive publication. It had risen rapidly in popularity. In my view, [PUBLICATION B] demoralized its readers even if unintentional. I realized how destructive its publication had become to my mind. I never read it again and have permanently muted people who share the publication because it has poisoned their minds.
For myself, I learned that I had to pay a price to live by my values. My dream of [ACCOMPLISHMENT FROM PUBLICATION A] passed because I didn't view that as praise-worthy anymore. This actually taught me the value of considering what an award (or praise) means. I don't want praise from something disingenuous.
I also had to learn to avoid lies - even people who hate and despise these publications share them all the time! In fact, people regularly share media from sources they admit to hating. I view this as insincerity. If you despise something, then give it no attention. I began living by this value and have been blessed by it.
My final lesson involved becoming the solution. I created a publication with a colleague, [PUBLICATION REMOVED] (this publication no longer exists). We wrote truth. But we didn't know at the time that no one valued truth. Several years later, we realized that this would never be profitable. We closed our publication and moved onto other ideas.
I began Executive Decisions several years later as lesson for my children. As it turned out, I needed to reflect over some of these truths from time to time myself. Rather than take an approach of writing frequently like my friend and I did in the past, Executive Decisions produces a maximum of two articles per month - one free, one paid (up to 2026). This has allowed me to spend more time meeting and working with other leaders.