The Trouble With Some Decisions | No BS Management Advice
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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The trouble with some decisions . . . Have you ever sat in a meeting and everyone is basically in complete agreement with something almost instantly? And the reason that often occurs is because organizations start to develop a common thought process, a groupthink about decisions that they make . . . And the groupthink winds up being based upon group assumptions? And that’s really where the problem takes place.
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression to assume is to make an ass out of you and me. And the thing that has to be asked with regularity is, “how do you know?” “How do we know this is going to occur? Just because it’s happened in the past under similar circumstances doesn’t mean it’s going to happen in the future based upon slightly different circumstances or major different circumstances.
I know I’ve worked for organizations that were stunned when decisions were made that didn’t pan out. Part of it was everyone sat around and agreed and no one tested the hypothesis underlying the idea.
So, I just want to remind you the most important questions that you can ask in a meeting is how do we know that? Why do we know that? How did we come to know that? Like the mutual fund industry says, past performance does not guarantee future results. Same thing with previous decisions. It doesn’t guarantee a future outcome.
So, I’m not opposed. I just want to slow you down so you guys can think it through
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how about a boss who makes a decision and then the subject comes up again, and they make an opposite decision… and didn’t remember what they originally decided?? And the same boss feels that hammering overloaded people is the way to get things accomplished?
A subject for another video . . . and someone needs to have the guts to point it out to them.