Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

When you are making a proposal for a change or project it can sometimes be difficult to get a hearing from the decisionmakers in the company. It can provide legitimacy for the proposal that the decision-makers need. Sometimes, internal voices don’t have the credibility of external ones.

Consultative 70

Consultative Company Decisionmaking Long-term 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

For example: [Their name], Thanks for your patience while I reviewed this proposal. We’ve published a lot on cybersecurity lately, and unfortunately the proposed piece overlaps a bit too much with other articles we’ve published. Thanks again for taking the time to put this proposal together for us. Offer hope.

Letter 9

Letter Sample Proposal Decisionmaking 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. Making the leap to a new career curve is a bold idea that also needs to be sold, and the importance of mitigating risk for the key decisionmaker — the prospective employer — holds true.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can find lots of scholars at top economics departments who study why bubbles and crashes happen, and how psychology and genetics shape individual decisionmaking. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. The other big idea in the 1988 article was chaos theory.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15