CEOs must have a license to err

DECISION-MAKING is a tricky business. People at the bottom of a pyramid can't push the chief executive officer (CEO) and senior management team to decide faster on big-ticket projects worth millions. People don't have the jurisdiction to tell their CEO to decide fast, or else the organization runs the risk of losing money.

The CEO and their corporate cohorts know what they're doing. They know the impact of a delayed decision, including lost opportunities. The situation is unlike the "door-open" and "door-close" buttons in elevators, where impatient people can push them many times. The CEO acts on their own, unlike mechanical elevators that go up and down according to their own system that cannot be manipulated by impatient people.