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 ...

before you. On each tab, YES or NO is written in bold letters. Like clockwork, it pops up whenever you feel stuck—your own personal wheel of fortune, only it never asks you to buy a vowel. If you are ...

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If you've ever wondered why you keep making bad choices, the clue might lie in which cues you rely upon when making a decision.

Why do some people feel paralyzed when faced with making a decision? REBT/CBT therapists highlight this emotional reality: our emotions and behaviors are generated by our thinking about events, not by ...

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 ...

Business decision makers sometimes face adversarial priorities when it comes to decision making. In the interest of furthering the business, good decisions must be grounded in research, forethought, ...

You want better for yourself. You’re ready to initiate a big life change because you deserve to be fulfilled and live a better life. One of the things standing in the way of you and “better” is the ...

Every day of our lives, we face a multitude of decisions. We can go so far as to choose not to decide anything! Of course, some decisions are more critical than others and might require more careful ...

When people tell the story about how AI changed the world, language models will be remembered as an important precursor to what came next: AI agents. Automation and the AI systems that have been ...

When you make a decision, certain neurons in your brain emit short bursts of the neurotransmitter dopamine. A new Yale study shows that when other factors wholly unrelated to the decision at hand — ...

Life is about making decisions and managing the consequences of those decisions. In tactical training, it is no different. Your journey to, through and after your training, testing or selection ...