The Shadow of Your Ego.

In the services the major proponents of tank development included, ironically, a small group of naval officers. The fact that the Admiralty felt less ‘threatened’ by tanks than did the War Office was strikingly illustrated at one of those demonstrations wherein proponents of a new idea strive to convert sceptics by confrontation with the evidence of their senses.After an impeccable display, in which prototype tanks cutthrough barbed wire, crossed trenches, slithered through mud and clawed their way out of craters, a naval officer was heard to remark: ‘We ought to order three thousand now!’ But the War Office contingent remained cool, one senior general retorting: ‘Who is this damned naval man saying we will want three thousand tanks? He talks like Napoleon.’

Norman F Dixon, ‘On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence’

Step 1 of the Five Steps to a Good Decision is Step Back.

Get perspective.

Stop blocking the light of alternative choices with the shadow cast by your ego.