For Boyd Stone, our charting expert

(For example, my carefully weighted approach
> to things seems to usually be disapproved in
> various "leadership" books, which
> generally seem to say that leaders should
> make quick decisions....)

Dien, don't you think your "carefully weighted approach" has a lot to do with your background as a scientist. Everything you engage in has to be validated by tangible proof that it works.

So, it would stand to reason that it would be a challenge for you to easily switch to a less conventional mode of thinking that some leaders might subscribe to. Leaders, depending on their field of expertise, often don't have to prove that 2+2=4, they are often such good motivators, they can convince us that 2+2 is not 4. And some of us depending on our state of mind at the time, may choose to believe what we hear, or dig deeper to find the right answer.

Hope you don't ask me to explain this, as I'm not sure I can. Perhaps I've been hanging around sowpub too long and my brain is beginning to get a bit mushy at 12:15 in the a.m. :-)

Regards,

Eliz.