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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. Two days later, the group presents the fully developed alternatives to President Kennedy, who chooses to pursue the blockade.