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4 reasons why managers should not make technical decisions

July 17th, 2009

Usually managers tend and like to take technical decisions on behalf of their stuff without involving the team in this decision.

There are of course, multiple arguments that managers say to support this behavior:

- I have much more experience

- I’m a technical person too

- I know enough about the system or about the client to be able to say this

- I feel the direction we are going it is not right

and many more …

Because the Law of Consequence, our mind is trying to deliver as many as possible arguments to support the behavior we are taking.

Don’t let yourself fooled by this. Open your mind.

Ask yourself: Am I, truly the right person to make this decision?

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