Indecision
Indecision is a hard thing to live with while you are waiting to make a decision. Sometimes the decision is out of your control and sometimes you are just weighing all the consequences to make the right choice. As a leader, others are always looking to you for decisions and hoping you make the right ones for their sake. Unfortunately, hindsight is always 20/20 and the right decision today might turn out to be the wrong decision tomorrow.
We are living today in a world of failed decisions. Some were made in community and some were made in greed. In hindsight it seems easy to see how we came to this point, but at the moment, indecision might have led to a more thoughtful process. Less doing and more thinking.
Again, indecision can be painful while you wait, but it can also be a decision to take another look. If things don’t seem right, or are too good to be true, or even require a rush to join approach, perhaps that is the signal to be indecisive. No decision is actually a decision.
On the other hand, as a leader, too much indecisiveness will cause your followers to lose confidence. They want someone to consider all the consequences, take charge, and lead them down the path of victory. A leader is somehow magically embued with a hypersense of knowledge to “know the right thing to do.” At least we want it to be true. I think it is an interesting time to be alive and watch what decisions or indecisions will be made over the next year.
