文档介绍：C O L L E C T I O N
What Makes a Decisive
Bad choices, endless Leadership Team
bickering, lost
opportunities. How
will your leadership
team avoid these
pitfalls?
Included with this collection:
2 Stop Wasting Valuable Time
by Michael C. Mankins
13 What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
24 How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy, and . Bourgeois III
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Collection Overview The Articles
Is your leadership team frittering away its 3 Article Summary
precious time wrestling with issues of no 4 Stop Wasting Valuable Time
strategic importance? If so, you’re proba- by Michael C. Mankins
bly missing important opportunities and Mankins describes potent practices for getting the most from your leadership team’s time. In
wasting resources. One global firm spent addition to dealing separately with strategy and operations, and fully evaluating viable alter-
more time each year selecting its holiday natives, these teams also move issues off the agenda quickly by developing clear timetables
card than it did debating a vital Africa detailing when and how the team will decide each issue and who will approve final strategy.
strategy. For instance, Swiss drug maker Roche transformed the quality and pace of its decision mak-
How to squeeze maximum value from ing by using a “decision agenda” to prioritize strategically important issues and allocate its
your leadership team’s limited time? Hold leadership meeting time accordingly.
separate meetings for operational and 12 Further Reading
strategic questions, and concentrate dis-
cussion on issues that drive - 14 Article Summary
pany’s long-term value. Put real choices
on the table—not just minor variations 15 What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
on a theme—before approving any strat-
To make your leadership team d