I think I read in one of Malcolm Gladwell’s books that humans trust stubbornness. Humans don’t like leaders who change their mind often. In fact, humans will continue to trust a leader even if he is proven wrong as long as leader himself doesn’t say that he was wrong.
Humans are strange creatures indeed. I rather have a leader who admits that he was wrong and fix it than a leader who stick to incorrect decision because of his ego. Okay I don’t like confused flip flopping IN-decision maker either but decision made later will always be better than decision made earlier. Simple math here. Later you will have more data than before, hence, better decision.
Okay it is possible that later data is bad or data is not processed correctly. So anyone acting too quickly on new data without verifying it, can make a worse decision than before. Such hasty person is probably a flip flop-er.
I guess you gotta find a happy medium, change or adapt your plans but don’t react to every little new information.
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