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• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  William Hague

  Decision, World, Diffusion

  "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

  David Livermore

  Decision, Needs, Helping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's children, and every life is precious. To me, that's a moral statement.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Thinking, Decision

  "George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, nepr.net. April 13, 2017.

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Optimistic

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• My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Decision, Dumb

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1258, Government Printing Office

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  The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Swimming, Keys

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Leadership, Two, Interesting

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

  Andrew Young

  Effort, Decision, Action

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• understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Decision, Understanding

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• Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

  Peter Senge

  Winning, Poor Decisions, Goal

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• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Business, Creativity, Imagination

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

  Cullen Hightower

  Business, Agreement, May

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Business

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Yield, Long

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Attitude, Business, Failure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow

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• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  Taylor Swift

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Taylor Swift Maps Out Film Career". Interview with Ruben V. Nepales, entertainment.inquirer.net. April 01, 2012.

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• Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mean, Unique, Decision

  "Muhammad Yunus and Bangladesh government battle over Grameen Bank" by Syed Zain Al-Mahmood, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon." "They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian." "No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process." "Well that... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!

  Kevin Hearne

  Mean, Decision, Monsters

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1419, Del Rey

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• Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

  Jim Cathcart

  Decision, Good Questions, Persons

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• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

  Howard Schultz

  Letting Go, Moving, Numbers

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• Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

  Biz Stone

  Careers, Design, Creative

  "What is Biz Stone doing?" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2009.

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