JFK was a decision making expert.  

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Each participant should function as a “skeptical generalist,” focusing on the problem as a whole rather than approaching it from his or her department’s standpoint.To stimulate freewheeling discussions, the group should use informal settings, with no formal agenda and protocol, so as to avoid the status-laden meetings in the White House.The team should be broken into sub-groups that would work on alternatives and then reconvene.The team should sometimes meet without Kennedy present, so as to avoid people simply following his views.

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