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The Opportunity Cost of Bad Business Decisions

An in-depth look at how dysfunctional behaviors and personalities can negatively impact business decisions, imposing unseen opportunity costs that hinder competitiveness, innovation, and advancement over time. Outlines proactive mitigation tactics for hiring, accountability, and modeling transformative leadership.

25% Of people experience bullying at their workplace.

For some industries, these numbers can be as high as

70%. (mydisabilityjobs.com, 2023)

GUIDE

02.

The

Personality Mix

Undermining talent and morale, the work-

place bully may seem like just another over-

inflated ego on the surface as they belittle

colleagues and subordinates behind barely

closed doors. Yet the opportunity costs as-

sociated with these individuals reveal a de-

structive force that can’t be brushed aside

as a communication style, especially when

once-promising careers and innovators are

silently derailed through their callous manip-

ulation. Skilled at psychological control tac-

tics that exploit vulnerabilities, bullies drive

out truth-tellers, and install a compliant bu-

reaucracy more vested in enabling dysfunc-

tion than protecting shareholder interests.

Impact: Workplace bullies negatively impact

all aspects of organizational performance, in-

cluding retention, innovation, collaboration,

decision-making, and advancing the corpo-

rate mission. Ultimately, the entire organi-

zation suffers the hidden opportunity cost

associated with these individuals as they

dismantle communication channels through

public humiliation and threats that muzzle

objective perspectives and severely constrain

decision-making visibility and agility to the

detriment of organizational advancement.

Cultivating an aura of fear that rewards si-

lence over transparency, bullies drive out

truth-tellers and deter evidence-based de-

bate, leaving subjective snap judgments or

cynical politicking to fill the analytical void.

Bullies

$100k

Workplace bullying can

result in costs as high as

$100K per year per victim.