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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