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Intellectually, it should be clear that it is easier for employees to go to one decision maker than two.
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210 |
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become bit more cowardly.
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213 |
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The primary purpose of the organizational hierarchy in a company is decision-making efficiency.
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216 |
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…a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed and quality of [their] decisions. Great decisions come from CEOs who display an elite mixture of intelligence, logic, and courage.
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237 |
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Business management must always, in every decision and action, put economic performance first. It can justify its existence and its authority only by the economic results it produces.
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026 |
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…[knowledge workers] have moved several steps beyond traditional workers, who used to expect to be told what to do… Knowledge workers, in contrast, expect to make the decisions in their own area.
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056 |
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Risk-taking decisions… are made every day by a host of people of subordinate rank, very often by people without a traditional managerial title or position.
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100 |
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The purpose of the work on making the future is not to decide what should be done tomorrow, but what should be done today to have a tomorrow.
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113 |
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It is futile to try to guess what products and processes the future will want. But it is possible to decide what idea one wants to make a reality in the future, and to build a different business on such an idea.
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117 |
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Practically every basic management decision is a long-range decision… every major management decision takes years before it is really effective.
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122 |
