Hearing Loss and Executive Decision Making
There are roughly 76 million Baby Boomers in the United States at this very moment. The leading edge of this number is now half way through their 60th year. At 59 ½, you can begin collecting on certain retirement benefits with no penalty, but you also may begin to develop presbycusis.
Presbycusis is a form of hearing loss that creeps up on some of us gradually as we grow older. It most commonly affects people over 50 and many of those people are likely to lose a bit more of their ability to hear every year. As a result of having presbycusis, you may find it difficult to hear what others are saying and you may find it hard to tolerate loud sounds.
Because so many Baby Boomers are entrepreneurs and executives making important business decisions on a regular daily basis, poor decisions are being made and deals are being lost. How valid are your decisions if you weren’t able to hear some of the information you’ve been told? People suffering from a hearing loss will almost always agree to whatever others are saying, and this can be disastrous in many areas, but especially in business.
All across the globe huge deals are being lost as decision makers realize they have missed a vital piece of information, after the fact. This is happening because people are not being diagnosed with hearing loss early enough. The earlier a hearing loss is detected and treated, the more beneficial that treatment will be.
