Chapter 16
Decision Taking with Infrastructure
Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his
neck out.
Bruce Levin
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of
techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of
resources to action.
Peter Drucker
“if you feel, on discovering the amount involved, that the
reward does not warrant the risk, now is the time to leave.”
Jeffrey Archer
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision
making is that people’s attitudes and feelings about losses
and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more
pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get
$10,000.
Daniel Kahneman
Decisions are easy when no options are left.
P.V. Narasimha Rao (former Prime Minister of India)
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
When you face a challenge that demands a solution or a
decision, you have two choices – you can either emulate the
example set by others or use your own creativity and
intelligence to formulate a new idea.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (My Vision. Challenges
in the Race for Excellence)
If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we
postpone further discussion of this matter until our next
meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and
perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all
about.
Alfred P. Sloan
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Decision Taking with Infrastructure
Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his
neck out.
Bruce Levin
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of
techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of
resources to action.
Peter Drucker
“if you feel, on discovering the amount involved, that the
reward does not warrant the risk, now is the time to leave.”
Jeffrey Archer
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision
making is that people’s attitudes and feelings about losses
and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more
pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get
$10,000.
Daniel Kahneman
Decisions are easy when no options are left.
P.V. Narasimha Rao (former Prime Minister of India)
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
When you face a challenge that demands a solution or a
decision, you have two choices – you can either emulate the
example set by others or use your own creativity and
intelligence to formulate a new idea.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (My Vision. Challenges
in the Race for Excellence)
If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we
postpone further discussion of this matter until our next
meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and
perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all
about.
Alfred P. Sloan
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
V. Proag, Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7_16
441