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Y Srinivas Rao
Manager, India
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Making no Decision at All
Should the Indian way of decision making - "no decision at all" be construed as a decision?
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Ching Yang
Teacher, United Kingdom
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Not doing anything is also a decision
There is no null value to a decision - either you decide to do it or not. Not doing anything is also a decision and it will have it's own results and impacts. Every action and even a non-action has a reaction.
So, yes no decision at all is also a decision.
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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When is it Best to Decide not to Decide?
Surely there are occasions where choosing not to decide is the best or only option. Some examples:
1. You are not in possession of all the facts;
2. Important occurrences are in the pipeline that will definitely affect the decision you have to make:
3. Making the decision is not in your area of responsibility and there is time for the relevant authority to make a more reasoned and appropriate decision sometime later; and
4. The matter demanding a decision is not urgent and the situation could develop in a number of competing ways.
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Bad Decision versus no Decision
It is my contention, based on experience, that it is usually better to make a bad decision than to make no decision. The...
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Postponing a Decision
I agree making no decision in management/leadership/strategy is a decision as well.
It's useful to distinguish between ...
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