Marvin Bower: Quotes about the decision

Marvin Bower was American business theorist. Explore interesting quotes on decision.

Marvin Bower: 24 quotes0 likes

“A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.”

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 25

“Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.”

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 24

“… for all the reasons we have discussed in these pages, judgments brought to the board by leaders are likely to be better than those coming to the board in a command company. Moreover, the effective working relationships between leaders and directors in a leadership company further ensures the exercise of sound judgments for such momentous decisions …”

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 134

“In large-scale organizations, the factual approach must be constantly nurtured by high-level executives. The more layers of authority through which facts must pass before they reach the decision maker, the greater the danger that they will be suppressed, modified, or softened, so as not to displease the "brass". For this reason, high-level executives must keep reaching for facts or soon they won't know what is going on. Unless they make visible efforts to seek and act on facts, major problems will not be brought to their attention, the quality of their decisions will decline, and the business will gradually get out of touch with its environment.”

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 31