Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist who was recognised with the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, gave an interview more than a decade ago in which he stated: “We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.”
The implication is that leaders make decisions that are hasty and scarcely thought through. On many occasions, we make our decisions based on insufficient data and knowledge. Spanish writer Menchu Gutiérrez wrote in her novel Disección de una tormenta (Dissection of a Storm - 2005): “We end up drawing a map of everything we care about and do not understand, altering the true size of our ignorance in doing so.”
