When Leaders Double Down on Bad Decisions

Admitting you’re wrong as a leader is difficult, but refusing to leads to costly organizational mistakes

In this week’s post, you’ll learn why most leaders are blind to their mistakes and keep doubling down on bad decisions. I’ll cover:

1. What’s error blindness – and how it affects decision making

2. The mindset that will help you overcome error blindness

3. Seven actions to avoid doubling down on bad decisions

Admitting you’re wrong as a leader is difficult, but refusing to leads to costly organizational mistakes

Becoming a leader is a tricky journey. The higher you rise, the harder it becomes to admit you’re wrong. Leaders will do everything to protect their reputations. Even if it involves doubling down on bad decisions.

Take this CEO from a UK tech firm. He brought me in to fix a deteriorating culture – and blamed his team for not being honest with him.

Here’s the deal: Employees viewed him as a control freak with a mercurial personality – always trying to be the hero. Whenever he asked his team for a solution, he’d shoot down all ideas except his own, claiming they were much better. No wonder ever…