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Are your decisions creating unintended consequences?

By | David Klaasen | Helping You Create Clarity, Inspire Your People & Drive Performance | Retain your best people | Changing Management Mindsets and Behaviour | Practical Behaviour Analytics

Are your decisions creating unintended consequences? If they are you may need to review how much you need to control the decision-making process in your business. Are you the only one who really makes decisions or do you seek to collaborate?

Authoritarian Tendencies

We are currently witnessing an extraordinary change in international politics with some leaders making very wide ranging decisions without appropriate collaboration and it highlights an interesting paradox in the delegation of decision making. The British Prime Minster Theresa May boldly announced that she would take the UK out of the European single market without the need for agreement from Parliament. This was promptly challenged in the High Court and found to be unconstitutional. The UK Constitution demands collaboration in parliament in order to maintain a parliamentary democracy. This requires appropriate input and debate by representatives of the people, so she had to back down and agree to put a bill through the parliamentary procedure.

In the USA there is a new President who is showing all the signs of someone who is happy to make all the decisions and neglect collaboration. He wrote six quite radical Executive Orders in his first week of office and they immediately prompted strong and influential voices threatening to challenge the Orders in the courts. It still remains to be seen what the consequences of his authoritarian and provocative stance will be in the longer term. His followers love it but in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent global economy there are some very serious implications and risks in this approach.

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