Field note
Indecision is more expensive than the wrong decision.
The wrong decision costs you a quarter. Indecision compounds.
Trevin Nimaladasa · Founder, Clariti · 17 Sept 2026 · 4 min read · Governance
Most leaders understand the visible cost of a wrong call. A delayed launch, a missed milestone, or an investment that needs correction appears clearly in a report.
Indecision is quieter. It spreads across meetings, parallel work, duplicated analysis, and teams waiting for permission. Nobody owns the total cost, so the organisation keeps paying it.
Decision debt compounds
Every unresolved choice creates more assumptions. Teams make local interpretations, dependencies multiply, and the eventual decision has to unwind work already in motion.
A decision does not need perfect certainty. It needs an owner, enough evidence, and a date.
What to do this week
Find the three decisions creating the most downstream waiting. Name one accountable owner for each. Agree what evidence is sufficient, not exhaustive. Set the date, document the call, and make the implications visible to every affected team.
Decision quality improves when the system around it is explicit. That is the work: not forcing faster answers, but designing the conditions for clear ones.