Robert Heller: Quotes about the decision

Robert Heller was British magician. Explore interesting quotes on decision.

Robert Heller: 42 quotes0 likes

“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

Source: The Decision makers (1989), Ch. 5. The Innovators’

“Decision tree - The most picturesque of all the allegedly scientific aids to making decisions. The analyst charts all the possible outcomes of different options, and charts all the latters' outcomes, too. This produces a series of stems and branches (hence the tree). Each of the chains of events is given a probability and a monetary value.”

Source: The Pocket Manager, (1987), p. 73

“Management — The definition that includes all the other definitions in this book and which, because of that, is the most general and least precise. Its concrete, people meaning — the board of directors and all executives with the power to make decisions — is no problem, except for the not-so-little matter of where to draw the line between managers who are part of "the management" and managers who are not.”

Source: The Pocket Manager, (1987), p. 161

“Decisions should be pushed down as far as possible, to the level of competence. This allows senior managers more time for making decisions of a more complex nature”

Source: The Pocket Manager, (1987), p. 72