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DO LUNCH OR BE LUNCH --- THE POWER OF PREDICTABILITY IN CREATING
YOUR FUTURE Howard H. Stevenson. Harvard Business School Press, 1998

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OUTLINE OF BOOK'S FACTS AND IDEAS

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION


1) Predictability--the good, the bad and the ugly

2) Predictability important? Says who?

3) Where prediction and predictability live

4) Variety vs. Predictability

5) Predictability in the past

6) How hard is prediction?

7) Acting to make the future happen

8) You, me and agreement

9) The technology of agreement

10) Society and unpredictability

11) Lone wolves and team players

12) THE QUESTION --- three standards for words and deeds necessary for building mutual predictability: (p223-226)


[1] clarity

[2] Consistency, and

[3] Competence


In reality --- I am not alone since I have to work with others in all of life's complicated endeavors. When I am faced with an important decision, with implications far into a future that I will necessarily share with others, I have to ask:

"Am I making life more or less predictable for
those who must depend on me, and on whom I must depend?"


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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