If you are in charge, take charge! Make that decision, do not procrastinate William Shakespeare had a knack for exploring and expressing the most profound human emotions and instincts in his writings, particularly in his plays that were awash with biting tragicomedy, fatalism and a whiff of farce that set him apart from his contemporary peers of the time. But arguably, it’s his unique ability to create characters, mostly leaders (kings) who boldly took tough decisions even when they, ironically, seemed to be in their moments of utmost weakness.

In one of his most popular plays, Julius Caesar, Caesar (the Roman King), banishes one Publius Cimber from the empire for a crime that he (Cimber) had committed and though many of the king’s cohorts, including Brutus, who was hitherto Caeser’s right-hand man had pleaded with the king to pardon Cimber, the king remained steadfast, proclaiming that he was as ‘constant as the Northern Star’ and that Cimber’s sympathisers would rather ‘lift up Olympus’ (a dormant, holy mountain in Greece) than assume that he would rescind his decision.  Many times, people find making difficult decisions an arduous task. Decision-making, especially…