Has anyone around you ever made a bad decision? Or maybe with the best intentions, you made the wrong call. How could this happen?

“Our brains leap to conclusions and are reluctant to consider alternatives; we are particularly bad at revisiting our initial assessment of a situation.”

The article gives practical advice: using three types of safeguards to strengthen the decision process.

“Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions.” by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, Sydney Finkelstein. HBR. February 2009 Issue https://hbr.org/2009/02/why-good-leaders-make-bad-decisions