Why is it so hard to get right and timely decisions in organisations ?

Because organisations are lop-sided with either ::

A) Folks who have the knowledge, insights,access,decision making authority to make those decisions but dont follow that through with a bias towards action or build credibility through execution

Or

B) Folks who really want to fix things, are opinionated on how to do it , have the passion to make change but are not enabled with access,authority,trust to the knowledge,resources and people required to take action

The fundamental duty of organisational leaders is

• To fine tune their organisational structure in such way that as many as possible people fall structurally in C .
• To empower,coach and shepherd people from (A-B) & (B-A) to transition to C.