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04Precedent · how it went for them

The situation“Two directors want different things from me and I have to pick.”

Leaders who made the same call — what each did, and how it went.

WorkedShouldn’t have been tried

Worked · Katharine Graham, Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers, 18 June 1971

On the morning of Friday 18 June 1971, Katharine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post for eight years but the Graham family's principal owner for just seventeen months since her husband's suicide) was at her own Georgetown home, hosting a farewell lunch for the paper's departing executive vice-president Paul Ignatius.

Worked · Decide.com, early 2010s

Decide.com built a price prediction engine for consumer goods.

Shouldn’t have been tried · Monitor110, 2005 to 2008

The company had competing visions from day one.