What Can I Live With?
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time is short, this period may be brief, but often you have
several days. Few important management decisions are made
under acute time pressure, and good organizations and good
managers make sure there is enough time for decisions that
matter. And the reason, as before, involves process. For a final
decision, however, the process that matters takes place in your
mind and heart. And, fortunately, there are several steps you
can rely on because, for centuries, they have guided the intui-
tive judgments of men and women facing hard decisions.
Get Off the Merry-Go-Round
Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a dark, turbulent story of ambition,
treachery, and moral collapse. So it is easy, while watching or
reading the play, to overloo