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- Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
- Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
- Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
- Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only…
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