Quotes About Decision-making

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I'll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Lawmakers zealously guard their prerogatives, and as much as some might oppose a minimum-wage increase, they will not want to see the issue taken out of their hands.

Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

The optimum committee has no members.

A long-term manager is a better option than a short-term one, but you've got to get the right man.