I may be learning something in leadership.
It’s better to be wrong than indecisive.
That’s a tough idea to swallow, isn’t it? But as I chew on it (hopefully, to swallow it), I believe it be more and more accurate.
If I make a wrong decision, the people I lead on the staff and in the church at least have clarity. They know what the decision is, even if they don’t agree with it.
And if it proves to be wrong in some kind of spectacular way, then that gives others the opportunity to bear the spiritual fruit of lovingkindess towards me. So I’ll be helping their spiritual growth!
Yet if I make no decision out of fear of making the wrong decision, the people I lead on the staff and in the church get stuck in limbo. Permanent neutral. People can’t move because they live in the murkiness that comes from lack of clarity and lack of direction.
I’d rather ask their forgiveness than consign them to uncertainty.
It’s better to be wrong than indecisive.
Is it?
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I believe you are right. Twenty years of military taught me that someone must step up and make a decision and then be willing to accept responsibility for any problems that come from it. Of course, it’s easier to sit back and wait for someone else but, that doesn’t make it right. There is a motorcycle gang that has the motto, “When we do something right no one remembers, when we do something wrong no one forgets”. So it is with leadership.