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Stop People from Wasting Your Time

Harvard Business Review

Here’s a solution: insist on seeing an agenda before you commit to attending any meeting, “to ensure I can contribute fully.” 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. Police guest lists.

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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. Emotional commitment can be good, but not if it gets in the way of sound decision-making. Good leaders don’t let their emotional bonds cloud their judgment.

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