> reducing time to prepare grant applications, Reminds me of a story about, I think, the take over of the Avis car rental company when it was failing. The guy

> reducing time to prepare grant applications, Reminds me of a story about, I think, the take over of the Avis car rental company when it was failing. The guy who took charge said that the single thing that he did to turn the company around was to institute a rule saying that any decision, however large or small was not to take more than three weeks. If at the end of that period a decision was not forthcoming then a coin should be tossed to decide between the competing solutions. Apologies if I have misremembered any, or all, of it but I think the idea works. Even if the wrong decision is made one gets to know early and can change course.