February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
3h 32m
English
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CHAPTER 23
How to Choose Between Bad Options
by David Maxfield
Imagine this: You’re a general manager for a manufacturing company and orders are up. You know you should be celebrating, but instead, you feel gut-punched. Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints, and you know you can’t fill these orders. Now you must decide which ones to fill, which to delay, and which to turn away.
Your decision will favor winners and losers: desperate customers, angry sales reps, and frustrated factory employees. And, if you don’t get it right, your reputation with all of these stakeholders will take a serious hit.
Here’s another tough decision scenario: You were just told that you’ve been laid off. It’s not entirely surprising since your ...