Several Japanese colleagues have suggested to me that no-decision managers would thrive in companies which use the ‘Ringi’ decision-making process common in Japan, so I decided to compare this process with the characteristics of no-decision managers. (Note 1) I have worked in a Japanese company, but never in one that uses the Ringi process to […]

The toxic managers who never take decisions, whom I call ‘no-decision managers,’ have not yet been written about in the current management literature and no research has been done on them. They are invisible in organisations, except to their direct subordinates, yet they exist, destroying the departments they manage and de-motivating their subordinates. No-decision managers […]

In my quest to reveal the existence no-decision managers, I discovered that they are proficient in some parts of decision-making but not all, and during this process, I discovered that dictionaries do not agree on a common definition of the word ‘decision.’ They agree on one thing only, that a decision includes the ‘act of […]