Concerted Procrastination is an accepted and well worn decision-making practice among senior executives in all venues -- government, business, NPOs. The theory is that, if you can wait long enough, difficult problems will resolve themselves when all options have been reduced to the worst one by default. Then the 'decision' is inevitable, and often unarguable.
I,too, though not a senior executive by any means, have practiced it on occasion, most recently in relation to forming my personal opinion on the efficacy of the Government assisting the US auto industry to a soft landing.
