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: But while they promote it, most management teams do not actually support it. You get promoted by delivering results, not having a good work/life balance. If you, as a manager, can achieve both, you will have a better decision-making track record. 5. Senior Leadership Pressure
If you have not been a manager, you may not appreciate that managers are under constant pressure from above. If you have a great manager, they will protect you from external pressures so that you can perform. Common Senior Leadership Pressures That Lead To Poor Decision Making
Forcing continual cost reductions even though the business is growing
Enforcing a “Fire the underperforming employees” policy
Inflating targets to unachievable levels to force an over performance situation
Pushing a policy of continual workforce downsizing. Even though your company meets its revenue, sales, and profit targets, leadership is still reducing the workforce by 10% per year. Constantly reorganizing the company between functional hierarchy (Sales, Product Development, Operations) or business unit hierarchy (Product A, Product B, Product C). Most senior leaders do not understand the company well enough to optimize the organizational structures, yet they will constantly reorganize to attempt to prove they are doing something of value.