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Decision Making in Practice

  • Most of the time, you don’t start with facts. You start with opinions. 
  • Data gathering and analysis and deciding what to do, and doing it all overlap. 
  • Analyzing the situation is still really, really, really important. Asking lots of good questions is the key to getting good analysis and good results.

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Silence is the way to avoid many problems & Smile is the way to solve many problems.

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