Leading with Character and Competence

CHAPTER 7The Third Cornerstone of Competence: Judgment

A decision is a judgment. It is a choice between alternatives. It is rarely a choice between right and wrong. It is at best a choice between “almost right” and “probably wrong”—but much more often a choice between two courses of action neither of which is provably more nearly right than the other.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005)Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and authorManagement: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Practices (1993)

Seeing the Big Picture

In 1952 a group of renowned scientists gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for what would become known as the Summer Study Group. In the background Cold War tensions were escalating between the United States ...