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Stop People from Wasting Your Time

Harvard Business Review

Meetings are also dangerous when their list of invitees has been wantonly constructed, filled with irrelevant people and lacking decisionmakers with the authority to get things moving. Make sure you understand who the real decisionmakers are, and don’t waste your time (or other people’s) until they can be present and participate.

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The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

Using “Systematic Decision Making&# methodology, DecisionMaker Pro let you start a decision, setup criteria and assert all respective choices in an objective way. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Criteria for a Critical Decision

CO2

Using “Systematic Decision Making&# methodology, DecisionMaker Pro let you start a decision, setup criteria and assert all respective choices in an objective way. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision. However, when I spoke to him again, he had just decided where he was going to have the operation: in the hospital in his hometown in Spain. I was surprised; there was no specialist in that hospital.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

I've had a few encounters with Gene through the years, and he's always struck me as an endearing (and rare) combination of policy wonk, political operator, and genuine mensch. He's replacing the controversial and sometimes cranky Larry Summers, and has a reputation for being less controversial and even less cranky.

Shaw 14