Making Business Decisions
Are you leading the horse… or is the horse leading you?
By Sarah Ripley, Wizard of Ads Partner
My working life is almost a decade old – quite primitive in terms of the 50 year average work life span. In that short amount of time, I have been numerously exposed to the underlying politics that exist in many workplaces, and particularly the influence certain employee personalities have on decision-making.
As a child, you are moulded to expect that people who “out-rank” you, such as your parents, teachers, family friends and even older siblings, will always have the final say. They are the boss. What they so, goes. You follow what they say. They are older, and wiser, they make the decisions.
This same attitude should in theory automatically transition to the workplace – the boss makes the decision, the employee follows. However, it seems with the introduction and encouragement of “employee empowerment” in the 1980s, the lines were blurred between empowering employees and allowing overpowering of decisions.
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