“But it seemed to her that he wanted to be a tyrant without having the courage necessary for tyranny.”
— Trollope
Neofusionist adds:
This problem has been rampant in my working experience. If you are in charge, you need to make decisions, and you will therefore be wrong sometimes. Being afraid to be wrong means you won’t be decisive, which makes you a bad leader. Not deciding is itself a decision to be ineffective.