I came across this quote in my lecture notes in a business class at the community college. I found it interesting.
"Organizations invariably spend more time living with the consequences of decisions than they spend making decisions. This has led several social psychologists to describe people as rationalizing (as opposed to rational) animals. The match between our attitudes and our behavior often derives from our adjusting our attitudes after the fact to conform to our past actions and their consequences. Stakeholders want to be able to view your project as a "win" no matter how the project ends up."
The Bible describes this problem long ago. It affects not just how we do business but all of life.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Jeremiah 17:9,10
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
We can easily get stuck in an endless cycle of self-deceit and rationalization. It can become a closed circle we cannot break out of. That is why we need Someone outside of ourselves who can show us what is inside of us.
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