12/31/2023 0 Comments Made a bad decision![]() Unfortunately, bad things happen fairly often. ![]() It is discouraging to consistently consider the possibility of negative events in our lives, and so most people assume the worst will not happen. They relied on past experience and expected results simply to be an extrapolation of the past. Basically, such people were perceived to be sloppy in their work and unwilling to put themselves out. This showed up as a failure to check facts, to take the initiative, to confirm assumptions, or to gather additional input. Here they are in order from most to least significant. Nine factors emerged as the most common paths to poor decision making. We did a factor analysis of the behaviors that made the most statistical difference between the best and worst decision makers. In an effort to understand the root cause of poor decision making, we looked at 360-feedback data from more than 50,000 leaders and compared the behavior of those who were perceived to be making poor decisions with that of the people perceived to be making very good decisions. Some possibilities came immediately to mind – people make poor decisions when under severe time pressure or when they don’t have access to all the important information (unless they are explaining the decision to their boss, and then it is often someone else’s fault).īut we wanted a more objective answer. Thinking about the decisions we had made to create this disappointing result led us to ask the question, “What causes well-meaning people to make poor decisions?” They called it “nagware.” Needless to say, this product never reached the potential we had envisioned. Some of our users came up with a name for this type of software. We invested a lot of time and money in this product.īut it turned out that people did not like receiving the e-mails and found them more annoying than motivating. People could enter their development goals, and the software would send them reminders every week or month asking how they were doing, to motivate them to keep on going. ![]() We developed a software application to offer that sort of encouragement. We had research demonstrating that when people embarked on a self-development program, their success increased dramatically when they received follow-up encouragement. Several years ago we came up with a great idea for a new leadership-development offering we thought would be valuable to everyone. ![]()
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