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Strategic planning is not the application of scientific methods to business decision. It is the application of thought, analysis, imagination, and judgment. Its is responsibility, rather than technique.
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We can make decisions only in the present, and yet we cannot make decisions for the present alone…
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Few things can do as much damage as right decisions to wrong problems.
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What effective decision makers have learned is to start out with the assumption that the way the problems looks, in all likelihood, is not what it really is.
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The first rule in decision making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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An organization can perform only to the capacity of its individual workers; thus people decision must be right. There are dead-end jobs. But there are no unimportant jobs.
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Making people decisions is the ultimate means of organizational control. No organization can perform better than its people.
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By now it is clear that no one can provide the information that knowledge workers need, except knowledge workers themselves. But few managers so far have made much of an effort to decide what they need, and even less, how to organize it.
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…only individual knowledge workers can decide how to organize their information so that it becomes their key to effective action.
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A decision should always be made at the lowest possible level and as close to the scene of action as possible.
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