My forthcoming novel, Three Days Grace, is not a business book. It’s a work of fiction about urgency, trauma and moral choice ...

From the moment you wake up, to the time you go to sleep, your brain is making thousands of decisions. Various scientists say on average, adults make around 35,000 conscious decisions each day. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering careers and strategic leadership for executives and managers. You can’t be both. You can’t be an effective leader and an ...

Good decision-making comes down to how calm you can stay when the heat is on. Here are three specific things emotionally ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a loop of endless deliberation, only to realize that the opportunity you were weighing has already passed you by? It’s a frustrating cycle—one that leaves you ...

Consensus decision-making fosters collaboration but can slow progress if not managed effectively. Balancing consensus with leadership ensures efficiency without sacrificing inclusivity and engagement.

Across cultures and continents, most people prefer to tackle life’s toughest choices alone, trusting their own gut or inner voice over the counsel of friends or the wisdom of the crowd, according to a ...

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 ...

The ways in which humans can be triggered into making irrational decisions are many and varied. Investors make higher bids for stocks when the sun is shining. If you add paper packaging to a product ...

We make very different choices depending on what takes the dominant role in decision-making: the head or the heart. Behavioral economists have long relished exposing our illogic when it comes to ...