Decision-making and politics...

Usually, good decision are made pretty fast and always involve some amount of courage or risk taking. Decision-making is like sushi; you can't wait forever before you eat it. It also doesn't work well when too many opinions are available or too many options are lined up. I'm talking essentially about politics and Libya today, but this is pretty universal. Experience plays a huge role too. The more decisions have been made in a person's lifetime, the easier it will be to make new ones.

Rare decisions are always agonizing. The quality and type of decisions made can also have a huge influence. A “half-baked” or questionable decision can often be better than no decision at all. The latter is almost always the worst, although it may work at times. Decisions have consequences, don't always work and require that we can live with their consequences, good or bad. That's right, timely decision-making isn't for the weak, those who must always please others and the perfectionists; it's a hard exercise that simply needs to be engaged into more often than we wished we had to...