Michael Useem The Go Point: the moment when a decision becomes action. With an easy writing style and on-the-ground stories, Michael Useem, Director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, prescribes how to make the best decision when the stakes are the highest.

About the author:
Michael Useem is professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Investor Capitalism, The Leadership Moment, and the just published The Go Point: When It’s Times to Decide (Crown Business/Random House, 2006) from which this article is drawn.