Poor decision making destroys trust. Players can't execute well in a poor decision making environment. As a part-time stock trader, I have to be aware of 'distribution bias' - holding on to bad decisions (bad stocks) instead of the better ones (that are gaining).
Paddy Upton shares his thoughts here. This reminds me of Jack Clark (rugby). Upton seeks to draw out the individual and collective expertise of his teams.
Key excerpts:
Upton says cricket so far has seen instruction-based coaching. The future, he says, will be all about man management.
One needs to bring in an approach - what I call harnessing the collective intelligence that sits within the group.
And when you have become scared of making the same mistake, you actually put yourself in a [state of] physical readiness to make that mistake.
You need to be doing what you are best at, regardless of what the other guy is going to do. So playing to a player's strength rather than playing to the opposition's weakness is another philosophy I believe in.
I seek to understand players as much as possible rather than fill them up with my knowledge.
Coaching in its pure form is helping somebody find their own answers for themselves.
In order to use a more empowering approach, one of the prerequisites is that the ego has to take a back seat.