Imagine! Imagine 10 shooters trying to pull one trigger. Just one chance. Just one target. Perhaps, just one shot. Will it happen? Will it be successful?
Decision making in organizations/teams is something similar. No one person 'takes' the decision. Group's working. Group's discussing. Group's taking the decision. When the decision goes wrong, group takes the blame. Or, perhaps each member is blaming the other, "See I told you." Can you fire the whole group? Unlikely. Can you point out any one person? Tough.
And it is for these reasons that decisions are a group work.
What's the benefit? Who learns? Who develops conviction? All becomes so unclear.
Decision-making is a great responsibility. The greatest skill in life, if I were to claim anything. The most critical thing to execute any strategy, to choose a certain path and not others. It involves risk but that's precisely the skill that the organization needs in its employees. Risk taking, responsibility, decision-making. And we come together, ten of us to pull one trigger!
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