While the United States has little choice but to accept and work with a more complex -- and probably more sluggish -- decision-making structure in post-election Pakistan, the problem for Washington and it allies is that the clock is ticking on the terrorist threat.

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When there is no crisis, or when there is little or no paradigm change, the Japanese decision-making process is not a problem.

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The problem is that this four step decision-making cycle: curiosity, awareness, insight, action is rarely presented to end-users in one elegant stream.

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Second, how we deal with the problem of democratic legitimacy and accountability of decision-making in the EU, which is a growing concern in most member states.

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To fix this problem, the team asked themselves some simple questions about the decision-making culture: To what extent are decisions currently made by consensus or by the CEO (on a scale of 1-10)?

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