The moves will open up the world's No. 1 auto maker to its first outside directors in its 76-year history, accelerate generational change in the executive ranks and streamline the company's decision-making.
Argyris described a method for improving the thinking and decision-making of executive groups that involved engaging them both collectively and individually as a coach-facilitator, giving them feedback, challenging their thinking and using focused exercises to help them reflect on how they operate.
The cause of decision-making failure by executive teams is simple: groupthink.
If past practice is any guide, what passes for a decision-making process in the executive branch on such issues will authorize the enunciation by Ambassador Wendt of a general commitment to such flexibility.
Decisions on the election were taken as part of a collective decision-making process by the Scottish Executive, Scotland Office, returning officers and other relevant stakeholders.
As companies contemplate how they will satisfy investor and SEC requirements, they will be well served if they put themselves to a three-pronged test: (1) Are our programs and goal-setting processes geared toward pay and performance alignment? (2) Do our decision-making processes and actions around executive compensation drive alignment? (3) Does our firm have a culture that actually values alignment?
The News Corp. executive also defended Mr. Hunt's handling of the regulatory decision-making process.
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Chief executive Hamish Morrison said that putting fishermen at the heart of the decision-making process would "help prevent the kind of dog's dinner of a deal done in Brussels last month".
But a smart chief executive officer is also smart enough to build a strong team that has the ability to manage the decision-making while the CEO is out of the office.
Careful decision-making in communicating information to the public seems to reflect lessons learned by a chief executive who has had to navigate the aftermath of attacks or threatened attacks where American lives were lost or threatened.
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