The Fifth Column: La Méthode de Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand or Maximized Acceptance with Optimized Agendas

Robert E. D. Woolsey
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Robert E. D. Woolsey: Mathematics Department, The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401

Interfaces, 1991, vol. 21, issue 6, 103-105

Abstract: The paper discusses running a real-world MS/OR problem using the Sorted Agenda Method of Talleyrand, foreign minister of the Empire of Napoleon I. To overcome obvious weaknesses of the One-Answer Syndrome, this approach presents a mock agenda of at least five options geared toward acceptance of what is the real standpoint one wants to defend.

Keywords: organizational studies: decision making; professional: MS/OR implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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