The difficulty of predicting the future complicates decision-making for people at every level of an organization from low-level employees who may be angling for a promotion or thinking of a career ...

The ability to make adaptive decisions in uncertain environments is a fundamental characteristic of biological intelligence. Historically, computational ...

Utilizing market research to inform decision-making begins with clearly identifying the objective: What specific goal am I looking to achieve? The scope and nature of the decision to be made will ...

Decision-making doesn’t come easy to everyone. Most of us can relate to not knowing what option to choose, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who’s never regretted a decision they made. There ...

When you know how to make a decision -- decisively, without hesitatIon--there's a good chance your partners, family members or work team will be grateful and throw in behind you. Knowing you can make ...

Life in a startup is fast paced, varied and fun. But it is also a constant and chaotic struggle, a juggling of disparate issues that need attention and decisions to be made at a moment’s notice. There ...

Today's best teams don’t wait for 100% certainty. They move with enough clarity to take smart action and enough humility to course-correct fast. Winston Churchill once said that “true genius resides ...

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 ...

Great leaders aren’t defined by how many decisions they make, but by the discipline to make fewer, better ones. Effective leadership is defined by the quality and impact of decisions, not the number ...

Every day, we face choices that ripple through our lives and the lives of others. Sometimes the decision seems simple, what to eat, what to buy, but other times, it’s profound: how to act at work, in ...

Patrick J McGinnis coined the term ‘fear of missing out’ more than two decades ago. Today he shares tips for using it to become a better leader. We’ve all felt it: the pressure to go somewhere despite ...

In the spring of 2024, we set out to improve student engagement in my digital media literacy course by listening to students and parents regarding their concerns. What emerged was a shared sense of ...