To be truly effective the key is, like everything in this life, to find the balance. In this case, try to find the balance between the need to find a unique solution to the requirement to take into account the different perspectives to consider when analyzing an issue.
is clearly a need to invest time in obtaining a more robust understanding of the thought processes behind the various conflicting perspectives, which slows the process of decision making. However, it is the way for more robust solutions.
Slow is not necessarily a sign of delaying or indeción. Rather, it is a sign of wisdom about to be implemented imminently.
To tolerate this period of pause, those responsible must exhibit two qualities (apparently rare these days):
1. Self confidence (not bullying).
2. Patience (not procrastinate ).
Unfortunately, as external pressures from above and below increase, leaders experience an increasing trend to internalize them, causing the doubt, stress and an urgent need to prove their worth.
result? The responsible end up adopting pre-existing solutions that do not fit quite well to the challenges faced. Decide quickly, but the decisions are too often flawed.
be able to resist pressures to act quickly requires that leaders keep themselves and others involved in the process of finding a way to find a way through the uncertainty rather than clinging to the "known solutions" that only help worsens the problem.
This phenomenon is similar to the classic story of the drunk looking for his car keys under the streetlight, despite knowing that it is not there where you have lost, "I know they are not there," he confesses, "but here's where the light."
is not easy to find in the dark. Neither is convincing others to join the search.
be that, perhaps, the reason to be a true leader these days is so difficult.
