The Decisiveness Crisis in Senior Leadership Teams: Sam Conniff

Two thirds of leaders say they would rather be seen as decisive and get it wrong than appear uncertain and get it right. It may sound illogical, but it's actually the result of decades of organizational culture training leaders that decisiveness equals strength and that not knowing is a liability. In this episode, Mina Seetharaman talks with Sam Conniff, founder of Uncertainty Experts and author of The Uncertainty Toolkit, about the data behind what he calls the decisiveness crisis, why senior leadership teams are the most likely layer in most organizations to get uncertainty wrong, and three learnable questions that help leaders make better decisions without pretending to have answers they don't have. This is part of an ongoing series of conversations about uncertainty on the Creative Confidence Podcast.

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The Decisiveness Crisis in Senior Leadership Teams: Sam Conniff is an episode from Creative Confidence Podcast by IDEO U.

This episode is 1:01:20 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2026.

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