Making Very Bad Decisions: Is Your Business Failing Because of This?

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com

We are human and sometimes will make mistakes and bad decisions.

But, it is a shortcoming to make mistakes or wrong decisions and not correct the resultant problem. This could lead to business failures. Even worse is to repeat the same mistake over and over again. Is your business failing because of this? Or, is it an issue of commitment to making the necessary corrections?

Correcting mistakes or fixing bad decisions takes time, effort and money. These could be spent on other pursuits that are more productive and less agonizing.

It also takes a toll on employees.

No one shows up at work wanting to make corrections, whether their own or another employee’s. Sometimes a whole day is wasted doing so. At the end, nothing is accomplished. Yet, you are drained from the effort involved.

As bad as it is to make bad decisions, coming up with the wrong fix can be as destructive. Is your business failing because of this?

One of my past clients did that.