Making decisions is a key function of leadership. Leaders must make complex decisions that affect the lives of their teams, businesses, and communities. Expertise in the fine art of making decisions ...

As part of my recent academic sabbatical, I spent some time at Harvard Business School with mentors and collaborators. In one conversation, a junior faculty shared a puzzle from her research that ...

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...

We make approximately 35,000 decisions every day, including dozens of tiny and major decisions on what to wear, what to eat, which route to take to work, where to go for lunch, and so on. It's ...

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That’s the result of a fascinating study led by professor Uwe Sunde at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Most studies on decision making look at simple decisions, the researchers noted, so ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

Should you marry that person? Quit a steady career to retrain? Move across the country, away from ageing parents? Sit with any of these and watch your mind spin. You weigh what you’d gain against what ...