There will be a particular premium on quick, nimble and farsighted decision-making and cooperation.
According to Cooper, Wilson was a savvy executive whose farsighted decision-making shaped "much of what has happened in the world since".
Only one of the I.C.C.'s less farsighted decisions, choosing to reduce by two the number of qualifiers for the next World Cup — to be played in South Asia in 2011 — cost Afghanistan a place in that tournament.
That includes California's coastal commissioners, who have over the decades, more often than not, made farsighted decisions despite high-pressure cajoling by developers who see only dollars on the shore. .
"Investing in children is one of the most farsighted decisions any leader, government or community can make," said UNICEF's Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
Ms. Bellamy, will be hosting a press conference focusing on why investing in children is a key to sustainable development and how investing in children is among the most farsighted decisions world leaders can make to assure sustainable development.
Understanding these mechanisms can yield better designed behavioral interventions that could increase farsighted consumer decision making and improve consumers' long-term well-being.
In many studies on health and ageing, assumptions about what drives individual decisions are either left implicit or build on a simplified model of human nature, in which individuals are treated as farsighted rational decision makers who make responsible choices about all things that are important to them, including their pensions or health related behavior.
Hevesi, noting the importance of Citigroup to the financial health of New York, the U.S. and the world, echoed Prince's sentiment, calling the company's willingness to settle a "remarkable decision and farsighted".
This played to his strengths, and many of his decisions are considered farsighted; the principle in Blaney v Hendricks, for example, that interest is due on an account where money was lent, which anticipated Section 3 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934.
