While it's tempting to draw the conclusion that we should add to the $14 billion spent annually on "leadership development" training, the best companies know that the real gains come from leaders who can demonstrate real decisiveness.
Accused of dithering at home, he may want to show decisiveness abroad.
"It was remarkable how quickly Punch began to demonstrate initiative and decisiveness," his mother wrote.
Mr. Davis, however, displays nerves of steel when he is fighting for his political survival, and demonstrates his greatest decisiveness in one area: his contempt for voters as people who simply can't be trusted with big electoral decisions.
And though Amy Aldridge, in the third, showed signs of overdoing her role's acting surface, the decisiveness she and Francis Veyette demonstrated made the couple's conflicts and changes of heart vivid.
Perhaps it was not a surprise to see the IPC salvage the situation given that the body, responding with the decisiveness sorely missing from its Olympic counterparts, had already demonstrated its resolve by banning Russia from the Games because of evidence of state-sponsored doping.
What women demonstrate intelligence, courage, compassion, decisiveness, assertiveness and passion?
It looked like a welcome show of decisiveness and solidarity.
The EU could do with a show of decisiveness for once.
Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.
