Whose DECISION Is It, Anyway?

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Name: Jerre L. Stead

Title: Chairman and CEO

Company: Ingram Micro Inc., Santa Ana, California

Line of Business: computer technology distributor

Number of Employees: 12,000

Revenues: $20 billion

Salespeople sell, administrators organize and engineers create, but executives decide. We decide to recruit new talent, open or close facilities, enter new lines of business or leave old ones.

Through our decisions, we influence other people's lives and spend other people's money. Our decisions determine our companies' fortunes. They also get us lionized and demonized.

So, if our decisions carry so much weight, why don't we make it easier on ourselves to make better decisions?