2008 and several years preceding it will not go down in history as the best years for good decisions. While we did make a groundbreaking (and, so far it seems, pretty good) decision to elect a different kind of man as U.S. president, we have made a lot of bad ones, both individually and organizationally. We invested poorly, we committed resources in the wrong places, some of our friends turned out to be not so friendly, and we didn’t prepare for tough times.
The Year Ahead: Make Better Decisions
2008 and several years preceding it will not go down in history as the best years for good decisions. While we did make a groundbreaking (and, so far it seems, pretty good) decision to elect a different kind of man as U.S. president, we have made a lot of bad ones, both individually and organizationally. […]
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