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making a decision | part IV

St Ignatius believed that our imaginations are where we meet the divine. Whether you believe that or not using your imagination can be a powerful tool to you help you make a difficult decision.

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MVP to MVP

In a recent article in HBR, it stated that organisations now need to move from building Minimum Viable Products, to Minimum Virtuous Products.

In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, VUCA, world the demand is for integrity, transparency and virtue.

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Aggression is necessary

We live in a society that values being calm and collected over being aggressive and violent, and this is a good thing of course, most of the time.

The problem is that we then end up often valuing passivity more than activity. Violence and aggression are necessary elements needed to make decisions, especially difficult ones.

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