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Stop People from Wasting Your Time

Harvard Business Review

Meetings are also dangerous when their list of invitees has been wantonly constructed, filled with irrelevant people and lacking decisionmakers with the authority to get things moving. Make sure you understand who the real decisionmakers are, and don’t waste your time (or other people’s) until they can be present and participate.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. One way is to develop and set a clear decision rule beforehand, when there is nothing concrete to decide upon yet. Make decision rules beforehand.

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