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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

Precisely because strategic choices are such important ones, loaded with anxiety and uncertainty, when faced with a major decision people start to “follow their heart”, “rely on intuition” and “gut feeling”, overestimate their chances of success, and let their commitment escalate. Sound strategy requires objectivity.

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