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CEO coach shares the No. 1 reason you buckle under pressure—and 4 ways highly successful people avoid it

By | Rebecca Picciotto | www.cnbc.com

Successful people need to make great decisions under pressure. CEOs across the country are failing at it.

That’s according to Chris Mailander, who coaches CEOs on high-stakes decision-making and is set to publish an upcoming book on the topic in June. From recent collapses of U.S. banks to high-profile corporate fraud, the country’s business leaders are repeatedly making crucial mistakes during crunch time, he says.

Those errors all have something in common, says Mailander: When you’re faced with a make-or-break decision, you need to act quickly instead of leaving the button-push until the last minute.

“There’s a lot of people who get caught off-guard by the time on the clock,” Mailander tells CNBC Make It.

Everyone faces time-sensitive decisions, not just CEOs. You might be on a tight deadline at work, or need to place a last-minute dinner order before the restaurant closes. Your decisions go awry when you allow the pressure of the moment to affect you, says Mailander.

Here are his top four strategies to avoid that fate.

Embrace dissent

Under pressure, it’s easy to go with your gut and ignore counterarguments to save time. Squash that impulse, says Mailander.

“Often times, that dissent gets written off, because it’s difficult, it creates friction, it consumes time, etcetera,” he says. “But often times, that’s the way we can mitigate some of the risk.”

If used correctly, disagreement can be a productive tool, Yale University researchers found in 2016: You’re more likely to find dissent useful when you approach others’ perspectives as valuable information, rather than arguments to defeat.

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