The national development bank, BNDES, has transformed from a stodgy local lender into a chooser of national champions.
And succession planning is a key part of a modern boss's job: if the chosen successor makes a hash of things, that reflects badly on the chooser.
One of Davie's most significant contributions on interviewing panels was as a shrewd chooser of people.
This is a point that Satel and Lilienfeld, in their eagerness to support a libertarian view of the self as a free chooser, get wrong.
On certain nights, the music is picked by an audience member, the chooser determined by a slip of paper drawn from a tuba.
Ron, a beggar and a chooser, asks for better pricing on globe valves.
By distorting energy markets, these subsidies would "effectively make the government the chooser of which energy technologies will be winners and which will lose," he said.
As one of the first singers to record works by Mr. Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, among others, Ms. Collins has been long recognized as a gifted chooser and interpreter of others' songs.
The nature of the chooser is the key determinant at the moment of choice: who we are comes first and what we do follows.
The grownups flirt inappropriately with the young chooser, and there is a wedding-speech feel to the sequences in which the adults bring up embarrassing childhood anecdotes or photos.
One of the touch points in the book is Barry Schwartz's idea of the paradox of choice: the enormous surplus of capitalism, and the fact that we have all these choices and it puts the burden of decision on the chooser, who then is of course doomed to be disappointed, and then to blame him or herself for their disappointment.
