17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail by Pooja Agnihotri

When it’s our idea or one we love, the decision gets even tougher, so working through this is all part of the process. The title of the course, talking about killing your darlings, draws from literature where writers are often told to make the hard decisions and “get rid of your most precious and especially self-indulgent passages for the greater good of your literary work”.

He has a point, yet where, as leaders, do we learn tools and techniques for making good decisions both individually and collectively? It’s usually through experience, and then outcome bias kicks in (if the outcome is good, we assume the decisions to get there were good, and vice versa, but often we can get a poor outcome, but the decisions made were still good decisions). Here's some context behind it, starting with a quote from a leadership boffin: “It is our decisions, not our conditions that determine our quality of life.”- John C. I’ll be delivering two courses this year, the first of which is ''Kill Your Darlings’: Applied Decision Making' and I am really excited about this one. Liz and the team there are well on their way to delivering “the most relevant Executive Education in New Zealand” and I’m really excited that I get a front-row seat as I’m one of these Professors of Practice! Yesterday the University of Canterbury’s Executive Education team hosted a vibrant, engaging and thought-provoking VIP breakfast to kick off 2022, share insights from future-thinking Carl Davidson, and launch their new Professors of Practice.

17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail by Pooja Agnihotri