I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader. — Allister Coetzee Copy Share Image
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?' — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers. — Bill Jensen Copy Share Image
“o reduce the obstacles that impede the small projects, decision-makers should decrease the import rate and increase the export” — Yahya Sayed Omar Copy Share Image
So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker.… — Wayne Mack Copy Share Image
The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In order to be effective decision makers and to live satisfying and contented lives, people need to be aware of their goals,… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
“Because adherence to standard operating procedures is difficult to second-guess, decision makers who expect to have their decisions scrutinized with hindsight are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr Copy Share Image
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who… — Boaz Ganor Copy Share Image
We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning.… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization… — Barbara Bund Copy Share Image
“Chevron, for example, has a decision-analysis group whose members facilitate decision-framing workshops; coordinate data gathering for analysis; build and refine economic and… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary… — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research… — Alex Johnston Copy Share Image
Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who… — Bronwyn Bishop Copy Share Image
The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Decision makers find that asking what-would-it-take questions gives them more, better, and different Macro Tactics from which to choose. As a result,… — David Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents:… — Nafis Sadik Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Investors think independently, anticipate things that haven’t happened yet, and put real money at stake with their bets. Policymakers come from environments… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image