About making bad decisions

This video by Sydney Finkelstein is excellent. Here is the link:

Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it from Happening to You

Mentioned are four red flags in decision-making:

• Are your personal experiences misleading you?
• Is your personal self-interest clouding your thinking?
• Have you made a dangerous pre-judgment that you are locked into?
• Are inappropriate attachments pushing you in the wrong direction?

These are very good!

The tricky part is that to really understand them, you need need to have traveled the multiple sides of the human psyche, which many managers have not.

All original content copyright James Litsios, 2015.