How to Resolve the Really Hard Problems Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas”—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you’ve done the best analysis you can, and you still don’t know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right?In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time—they’ve guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life.You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.
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Managing in the Gray
Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work
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Managing in the Gray
Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work
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1
1
Tools
for
Judgment
Gray
areas
are
the
hardest
problems
managers
face
at
work.
The
reason,
fundamentally,
is
that
these
are
the
hardest
prob-
lems
we
face
in
life.
When
you
have
to
deal
with
a
highly
uncertain,
high-stakes
problem,
you
face
a
challenge,
not
just
to
your
skills,
but
to
your
humanity.
This
book
offers
a
powerful,
practical
way
to
resolve
gray
area
problems.
It
is
based
on
guidance
that
is
unusual,
even
radical.
The
guidance
doesn’t
come
from
successful
or
famous
CEOs.
It
isn’t
found
in
the
conventional
wisdom
that
says
serve
the
interests
of
the
shareholders
or
all
the
stakeholders.
Nor
does
it
appear
in
the
ever-lengthening
mission
statements
of
today’s
organizations.
The
soundest
guidance,
I
believe,
for
grappling
with
hard,
complex,
uncertain
practical
problems
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Contents
- Ch 1: Tools for Judgment
- Ch 2: What Are the Net, Net Consequences?
- Ch 3: What Are My Core Obligations?
- Ch 4: What Will Work in the World As It Is?
- Ch 5: Who Are We?
- Ch 6: What Can I Live With?
- Appendix A: Humanism
- Appendix B: Human Nature, Evolution, and Ethics
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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