Leaders’ Bad Decision-Making Everyone makes at least one decision in their lifetime and it’s not always a good choice or decision. Some are small, domestic, and innocuous. Others are more important, affecting people’s lives, livelihoods, and well-being. Many of the simple decisions people make like what color pants they will wear today or whether or not they want spaghetti for dinner, etc. are often automatic or based on their preference at a given moment. Inevitably, we make mistakes along the way. So as you look back at your life and think about some of the poor choices you have made, you might find yourself wondering exactly why you made those decisions that seem so poor now in retrospect. Why did you marry someone who was all wrong for …show more content…
Dan Gilbert had a wonderful talk about this issue: “What makes this dynamic inconsistency happen? Comparison. Troubling comparison.” In the same view, Penn State University also show that many decisions in life cause a feeling of dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is defined as conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors (McLeod, 2014). In the cognitive dissonance theory we have a drive to keep our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in harmony and avoid dissonance (Festinger, 1957). Moreover, Harvard Business Review stated that there’s some psychological reason for these decisions-making (Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead and Sydney Finkelstein, 2009): Pattern recognition, Emotional tagging is two main reason which can make a good leader makes bad decision. Besides, nine habits were considered as the possible reason why leaders make bad decisions: laziness, not anticipating unexpected events, indecisiveness, remaining locked in the past, having no strategic alignment, over-dependence, isolation, lack of technical depth and failure to communicate the what, where, when, and how associated with their decisions (Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, 2014). These terrible reason keep distracting leaders from going their right way, make their right
Throughout life, individuals are faced with decisions and obstacles that must be overcome. These decisions and actions are easily influenced by outside forces and motivations and the outcomes of our actions can have a drastic effect on one's destiny. The act of deciding a course of action is not always simple, but it is made even more difficult when we are faced with a time period and a negative outcome if we chose not to continue on our journey. In the short story “Winter’s Bone,” written by Daniel Woodrell, we are taught that throughout life people make choices between what they want to do and what they need to do. Sometimes those choices lead to unfavourable outcomes,
Unfortunately life has many hurdles and roads unturned. I do not feel we should regret the mistakes we have made in our past. Or else, we may be too hesitant to make correct choices in our future.
In T. Coraghessan Boyle's "The Love of My Life", passage above, we begin to see that there is no regret for the choices made by the characters. Jeremy whose voice we hear in the passage can't even refer to his child as something human. Jeremy views his and china's creation as an IT and he can't seem to grasp the concept that he has done something immoral and wrong. Mistakes are made by many couples and they most likely will choose to deal with them without any outside help some problems need other. Problems begin when the people in the relationship forget to realize when to draw the line and focus on what is truly important, which unfortunately to them might not always be the other person relationship or the relationship itself. When a problem aris...
On June 17, 1972, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, as a result of trying to cover up the break-in. In Sophocles Antigone, the blind prophet Tiresias tells Creon the King of Thebes, “Think: all men make mistakes, But a good man yields when he Knows his course is wrong, And repairs the evil: The only Crime is pride.” Tiresias says that nobody is perfect, but what makes a man good is his ability to accept his mistake and forget his own pride, but Creon does nothing to change. Although pride in accomplishment is good, it should be masked by what is best for everyone instead of what is best for one’s pride because it can give a person respect.
...ood or bad, has led me to where I am today. I have made many decisions in my life and some decisions were because I was selfish. They were made based on what was best for me at the time I made the decision. Some of my decisions were based on my future. Individuals are not able to control what has happened in their past or the laws of nature, but individuals are still able to make decisions that will result in many different outcomes.
In order to make a reasonable decision, one must consider every possible repercussion. In the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet believes that faking her death will get her out of the wedding with Paris, however she does not take into account how her decision will affect the people around her. Romeo, naive to Juliet’s fabricated demise, was convinced that he couldn’t live without his Juliet, and poisoned himself in spite of Juliet's plans. She woke up from her death-like coma, and Juliet realized that Romeo was dead, and actually killed herself. Other people’s lives were changed as a result of their deaths. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”(V, III, 327-333) This is an example of the consequences of decision making because Juliet didn’t acknowledge how her decisions impacted other people’s lives. This shows that when making decisions, one should consider it from another perspective.
Poor decisions in life can impact oneself and others in ways one doesn't expect. As evidenced by ¨Romeo and Juliet¨ and ¨Sound of thunder¨ by William Shakespeare and Ray Bradbury choices one makes can cause severe mental harm by spawning many negative feeling like guilt, rage, ego and excess pride.
Cognitive dissonance is a communication theory mostly used in the field of social psychology in providing a theoretical framework in dealing with various issues relating to psychology. The title provides us with the concept that cognitive is thinking while dissonance is the inconsistency or conflict brought about. Cognitive dissonance manifests when one holds two or more incompatible beliefs simultaneously. This theory has been used and applied in several disciplines including communication, due to its simplicity and straightforwardness. The theory is commonly applied in these dynamic fields since it replaces previous conditioning or reinforcement theories by viewing individuals as more purposeful decision makers striving to acquire a balance in their beliefs. Cognitions are chunks or bits of knowledge which can pertain to any variety of values, emotions or values. These cognations can be related to one another or they can also be completely independent from each other (Cooper, 06). For instance, one may like to eat junk food, but may also be trying to lose weight. The two cognitions are related to each other in tha...
Everyone makes mistakes, yet even the smallest of mistakes can change the entire course of history given a time machine and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Learn to cherish the life on this Earth, and don’t let poor choices dictate the future ahead. Making the right decision is key to success, and only we can choose what successes we want to
Life is precious so one should not live life with regrets. Judgement is always going to exist. There is always someone out there that is going to do better, that is going to accomplish more. Henry David Thoreau wrote a story titled, “Where I lived, and what I lived for,” and he argues that people must live in the moment, because time cannot be controlled; forget about the commits and live with what is right in front of you. He uses zeugma when he describes how many meals a day people should eat, “Instead of three meals a
bad decisions in life and we just defeat ourselves instead of changing and living life
The world we live in is overflowing with choices and chances. Every day, each and every human must make thousands of decisions. Some decisions may be rather simple to make, or not present a high chance for an unfavorable outcome. While one may decide the apple they picked up from the store is not very sweet, the cost lost on the apple is rather minimal and the consumer will most likely be presented with many more opportunities to pick a delicious apple. However, some choices are much more complicated. Decisions such as where to invest one’s money, or what physical challenges to endure, present very serious consequences. If the wrong decision is made, one could lose their financial security, or even their life.
Furthermore, Hodgson and Drumond (2009) as cited in Francis-Smythe, et al. (2013) argues that some managers focuses only to one solution and incorporating them to different situations believing that every situation is the same. Hodgson and Drumond (2009) continues that some managers over commit to one problem for a longer period of time forgetting other important things to be done. So they rush and make urgent decisions without evaluating it. Another reason why managers made wrong decisions is that some incidents are unusual or evidences and facts are not complete during evaluation. Managers also used their past personal experiences in dealing with difficult situation believing that it will also resolve their current situation Francis-Smythe, et al.
When growing up in this day, with many of our fellow men and women trying to get a taste of the good life. They will try to obtain happiness in very different ways with how they treat each other. The choices I have made have given me great opportunities to create a better and more fulfilling life for me. The reason I believe that choices affect our lives so greatly is because most of us our given a fair chance in todays world. An example from my life is being able to get over family problems with my dad. I made a life choice not to have contact with him because of the man I saw when I was a child. The troubles in my family will help me be a strong and more independent person throughout my life. Having independence will help me continue to grow into a hopefully more successful adult. Making the choice in not having contact with my father was a difficult decision. It was hard to keep a relationship with my real brother because he still keeps in touch with my dad. My older brother may look down on my choice, but I believe that I made a better choice. In the future I may have regretted in not speaking to my father, but for right now I think it is better to cut all communication with him. Being able to make a hard choices in cutting communicati...
We make choices every hour, every minute, and every second of our lives; whether big or small our choices are slowly putting us in the direction we choose or end up. Many of us do not realize what contributes to the choices we make and why it affects others the same way if affects us and because of this many authors and writers have written stories and articles about coming to terms with making a choice and how to better ourselves when it comes to decision-making for the future.