decisiveness

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Ternus, who led hardware engineering, is known for decisiveness and navigating Apple’s internal culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Instead, she said, McDonnell has lacked the decisiveness required to make real changes in the face of resistance from the police union and others.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

The evaluator's rubric has six criteria to consider when determining the scores of the interview: intimacy, social desirability, general job abilities, decisiveness, cooperativeness and overall hireability.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2024

But they didn't and Bassey lashed home his first Fulham goal with a decisiveness lacking from United's play.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024

The short answer is that, just as there was a duel of words after the actual duel—won by Hamilton’s advocates—there was also a duel of words beforehand, which Burr won with equivalent decisiveness.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis