Many leaders, managers and supervisors fail because they cannot delegate or refuse to delegate. When the do delegate or assign a task to a subordinate they then continuously follow up and check on progress.

So there you are – in control, quite content, coasting along, impressed with yourself. You have settled well into your new job, the team is chugging along just fine, and their overall performance is OK – not spectacular, but OK. You are doing a good job, right? Maybe, maybe not.

The physician/author, George Sheehan, when speaking at a national conference in 1979 said: “You are unique, never-to-be repeated event. Your parents could make love a million times and never again reproduce the same genetic pattern. You are the only chance this planet has for your unique contribution. Will others’ expectations, rules and roles be your focus? Will you be only what you think you should be? Or will you occur?”

Leaders in the current economic climate are facing so many decisions . . . and they are making them. However are they making the right choices? Is there a difference between choices and decisions? Before reading on, I would like you to reflect for a moment on what choice implies and what making a decision implies.