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Decision making: about difficult personnel, 164, 178180; establishing authority in, 153; involving others in, 153, 188190, 189

Decision-making networks: exclusion from, 20, 254 n .2

Decision trees, 216

Defensiveness, 191192

Delegating: deciding what to keep versus, 8688; women's experience of, 86

Deloitte & Touche: Ellen Gabriel at, 8; Sharon Allen at, 5

Demonstration projects, leveraging, for additional resources, 139144, 147

Difference, making a. See Making a difference

Differential resource appeals, 130132

Difficulties, potential: scoping out, through confronting confusion, 4348

Dimon, J., 6970

Disaffected individuals, picking up on, 5253

Disagreement, treating , as communication failure, 155157

Disconnects, confronting confusion and, 4348

Diversity initiatives: politics and, 186187; presumption of tokenism and, 4; synergies of, 224

Double-bind test, 67; in change implementation, 151153

Drilling deep. See Intelligence

Due diligence, on position offer, 3233. See also Intelligence