evidence: Quotations from Chairman Powell [...] Powell's advice is don't take action if you have only enough information to give you less than a 40 percent chance of being right, but don't wait until you have enough facts to be 100 percent sure, because by then it is almost always too late. His instinct is right: Today, excessive delays in the name of information-gathering needs analysis paralysis. Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk. [...] ©1996 Oren Harari. Reproduced by GovLeaders.org with the author's consent.