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Sighting Your Lighthouse

Even the most complex decisions come down to a simple beam of light

By Lisa H. Harrington CPCU, CAE | Updated on August 31, 2011

There are times when it does not seem as if the right path will ever be clear to you. Managers have to make wonderful and terrible decisions every day, and we don’t always have an obvious line drawn to the right choices.

Everyone who has ever had to manage employees—or children, for that matter—will understand that empty, hollow feeling you can get when you realize that you have all the data you’re going to get, and the decision still does not feel solid. Sometimes all that data isn’t nearly enough. Even high driving, A-type personalities, which is considered the one type that does not need 100 percent of the information, can have moments when clarity escapes them.

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