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What's Your Decision-Making Energy Conversion Ratio?

In Michael Pollan's fascinating book 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' (not directly a Predictable Success-related book, but a worthwhile read nonetheless), he points out that in the US, it takes between seven and ten calories of energy (in growing, processing, preparing and distributing the food) to put one calorie of food on your plate.

That led me to think about the decision-making 'energy conversion ratio' in the organizations I work with: Do you have a manager, a peer, a team member who's decision-making 'energy conversion ratio' is higher than 1:1?

Someone, in other words, in whom you have to invest five, seven, ten times more energy in managing them, than the organization gets back in return?

If so, what are you going to do about it?