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 ...

A study published in Personality and Individual Differences found that indecisive people tend to make really smart decisions.

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A study found that we follow rules out of conformity. We want to fit in with everyone else. It can be frustrating for others ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...