African Leadership is at the critical point, that moment just before it attains the critical mass to spur a revolution or step change in the industry. If Leadership was an industry, then Africa is a few steps from attaining the critical mass, the early adopters of next generation leadership.

And for African leaders to make that jump, then decision-making must be that tool in their arsenal. Most leaders have not been trained in decision making and all the ways in which one makes the right decisions and the wrong ones. Most leaders learned the hard way, make a couple of bad decisions, refine your risk appetite and always know by intuition or learned experience how to stumble on good decisions.

For next generation leadership, decision making is both an art and science that African leaders can set out to learn. From understanding the biases that cloud judgements to arriving through a radical logical and rational manner at the right set of solutions for a given context.

Decision-making is contextual. A decision that was right in one context can turn out to be wrong in another context. How do African leaders prepare themselves to make decisions in extremely volatile and dynamic contexts? And how do African leaders get in a position to making these decisions faster.

There’s always a deadlock when decision-making is delayed. In the new world, a delayed decision could equate to a wrong decision. Decisions must be made at the right time in the right context.

What is Africa Nxt Gen doing to accelerate decision-making in the African leaders’ circles? That’s the next challenge. That’s the next puzzle!