Evidence-based decision-making’ sounds like a great idea. Before trying to build it into your IT culture, you’ll first need ...

A fair percentage of leaders, especially in startups, professional groups and not-for-profits, pursue the holy grail of decision making by consensus. But it’s usually a bad idea, leading often to ...

Tawn Albright is the Founder of the executive coaching firm Bowstring. He works with an array of leaders from start-ups to multinationals. Throughout my career, I've discovered a valuable lesson that ...

This post is a review of Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making. By Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale University Press. 277 pp. $32.50. Rational Choice Theory ...

We live in a data-centric world, with artificial intelligence (AI) as the engine that increasingly drives decision-making. Companies and government agencies all seek to make smarter decisions, often ...

Many would consider emotions to be a hindrance to decision-making and, therefore, think that they would be better off without them. They may avoid or suppress them, rather than feel, process and ...

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 ...

Chances are, someone at some point has told you to “Follow your gut” or “Listen to your gut.” Maybe they asked, “What does your gut say?” For me, my gut tends to remain relatively quiet, and when it’s ...