Title: Top 10 Reasons Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions?
Headings: Top 10 Reasons Why Good Managers Sometimes Make Bad Decisions?
Top 10 Reasons Why Good Managers Sometimes Make Bad Decisions?
Humans As Decision Makers
1. Inexperience in Life or Leadership
2. Personal Life Pressures
3. Time Pressure
4. Stress & Overwork
5. Senior Leadership Pressure
Common Senior Leadership Pressures That Lead To Poor Decision Making
6. Pressure from Individual Team Members
7. No Clear Personal Values
8. No Solid Decision-Making Process
Decision Plan Template
9. Ego & Power
10. Lack of Balance Between Emotion & Logic
Why You Might Think A Management Decision Was Bad
Hindsight Bias
Consider this common example.

Content: These pressures exert a huge burden on managers, which can lead to poor decision-making. 6. Pressure from Individual Team Members
Some teams have larger-than-life characters that perform important roles and have undue influence within the team. This is a real-life example from my early career. I took a freelance I.T. contract with a large pharmaceutical company. I was 23 years old, and the contract was more money than I could have dreamed of as someone fairly fresh out of university. There was a guy in the team; let’s call him Dave. Dave was a tough lad, physically, mentally, and personally; he did not suffer fools gladly and was crushing if any “Newbie” made a mistake.