Title: 9 Habits That Lead to Terrible Decisions
Headings: 9 Habits That Lead to Terrible Decisions
Decision making
9 Habits That Lead to Terrible Decisions

Content: Failing to get the right input at the right time. Failing to understand that input through insufficient skills. Failing to understand when something that worked in the past will not work now. Failing to know when to make a decision without all the right information and when to wait for more advice. It’s no wonder good people make bad decisions. The path to good decision making is narrow, and it’s far from straight. But keeping in mind the pitfalls can make any leader a more effective decision maker. Jack Zenger is the CEO of Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy. He is a coauthor of the October 2011 HBR article “ Making Yourself Indispensable ” and the book Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution (McGraw Hill, 2016).