At Splunk's 'The Beginning of Everything' event in San Francisco on Wednesday, former president Barack Obama spoke about making decisions.
That's because those things create"a lot of noise and clouds your judgment," Obama said at a San Francisco event organized by tech companyHe also said it's important to have teams with a diversity of opinion to help with decision making and providing context.If you're president of the United States, Barack Obama has two important tips to help make good decisions.
First, Obama said, you should"make sure you have a team with a diversity of opinion sitting around you." Obama spoke about how he entered office in the midst of the Great Recession. He said that it's been said that the presidency is like"drinking out of a firehose."A president can't absorb all the information on their own when making a decision, so it's important to have teams to provide information and context about the problem, he said.
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