Why your decision-making process is skewed

Most companies (and individual senior leaders) have terrible decision-making processes in place. They often focus short-term, chase shiny pennies, and a host of other things. Why is this? How can it get better?

Leaders don't often discuss their decision-making process for a variety of reasons, notably that it's probably something that feels proprietary to them ("Only I understand this!") or it's not something that can be breathlessly analyzed on a balance sheet ("The Spreadsheet Mentality") or (most likely answer) they have no idea what their decision-making p…