Please Make A Decision!
I am sure that we all have experienced times when we have dreaded making a key decision at work or in own personal lives. We agonize and procrastinate until the bitter end.
Organizations can sometimes fall into what I call analysis paralysis. The culture of the company is to be cautious, frugal, cover your back, and analyze decisions to death. No one wants to accept the responsibility from their decisions. Things get discussed for years and still no decision is made.
I know companies that have discussed and presented the same idea for six years! Six years of blah, blah, blah. Do you think that employees in a company where this happens are motivated to excel? Absolutely not.
When decisions are not made, there is no forward momentum for any type of change. There is no action therefore there can be no reaction (the laws of physics). Organizations become septic.
Make the decisions that need to be made. Get the flywheel moving so some type of energy is released in the organization. If you make the wrong decision, step up and admit it, then make another decision to correct it. Leadership demands decisions, employees need decisions to be made for them to excel, customers need decisions to be made to satisfy their needs and encourage them to come back.
Quit putting off the dreaded decision - make it - adapt - and move on. Life keeps moving forward even if you do not.
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