Interesting, almost philosophical (in the best meaning) and also pragmatical (also, at its best meaning) approach to the difficult managerial problems. How to proceed in the unsure, difficult situations?

Mr Badaracco offers the 5 questions approach:
What are the net, net consequences? What are my core obligations? What will work in the world as it is? Who are we? What can we live with?

Some of the questions are ethical, some are pragmatical.
And I find them quite useful.

Well, everyone operates on the music of their own drums, so to say. I can attest to the more emotional approach in my case, so i definitely need to add the question " What will work in the world as it is?" into my deciding process!

The book also contains some useful techniques and tips on how to operate on these questions.

While I could think about more and/or different questions (and examples), I find this attitude of mixing the ratio and the ethos into one decision "bag" quite refreshing and insightful.
Sure, don´t take that book as a Bible. But to broaden one´s way of thinking and approach is useful.