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If you're the president of the United States, Barack Obama has two important tips to help make good decisions.
The former US president spoke about his decision-making process on Wednesday at an event in San Francisco organized by the data-analysis company Splunk.
First, Obama said, you should "make sure you have a team with a diversity of opinion sitting around you."
"The other thing that's helpful is not watching TV or reading social media," he said. "Those are two things I would advise, if you're our president, not to do. It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment."
Obama spoke about entering office during the Great Recession and told attendees it's been said that the presidency is like "drinking out of a fire hose."
"That's doubly true when you're in the middle of a crisis," Obama said.
A president can't absorb all the information on their own when making a decision, so it's important to have teams to provide information and context about the problem, he said.
The former US president spoke about his decision-making process on Wednesday at an event in San Francisco organized by the data-analysis company Splunk.
First, Obama said, you should "make sure you have a team with a diversity of opinion sitting around you."
"The other thing that's helpful is not watching TV or reading social media," he said. "Those are two things I would advise, if you're our president, not to do. It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment."
Obama spoke about entering office during the Great Recession and told attendees it's been said that the presidency is like "drinking out of a fire hose."
"That's doubly true when you're in the middle of a crisis," Obama said.
A president can't absorb all the information on their own when making a decision, so it's important to have teams to provide information and context about the problem, he said.
Barack Obama says any president should avoid TV and social media when making a decision — it 'clouds your judgment'
At Splunk's "The Beginning of Everything" event in San Francisco on Wednesday, former President Barack Obama spoke about making decisions.
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