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The Fifth Column: La Méthode de Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand or Maximized Acceptance with Optimized Agendas

1991; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences; Volume: 21; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1287/inte.21.6.103

1526-551X

Robert E. D. Woolsey,

Logic, programming, and type systems

The paper discusses running a real-world MS/OR problem using the Sorted Agenda Method of Talleyrand, foreign minister of the Empire of Napoleon I. To overcome obvious weaknesses of the One-Answer Syndrome, this approach presents a mock agenda of at least five options geared toward acceptance of what is the real standpoint one wants to defend.