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How John F. Kennedy Changed Decision Making for Us All

Harvard Business Review

Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review.