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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

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