A few years ago, I read “Six Thinking Hats” by psychologist Edward de Bono. The core idea is simple: each hat represents a distinct way of thinking about a problem. While the framework is often ...

Fundamentally, how does anyone know us as individual leaders and/or judge our leadership effectiveness? The first thing that might come to mind is your personality. Secondly, how you communicate: how ...

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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, ...

Good decision-making requires weighing the value of immediate rewards versus delayed rewards. For instance, would we prefer to consume one piece of chocolate or five pieces? The answer may not be as ...

The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are ...

Professionals don’t experience uncertainty in decision making — as an amateur, I “knew” this. Before I worked in a medical center, I thought medicine was an exact science: Doctors were trained to ...

Only 45 percent of employees know what’s expected of them at work, according to Gallup’s latest research on workplace engagement. At the same time, an entrepreneur named Nell Wulfhart is charging ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

According to recent McKinsey & Company research, executives spend nearly 40% of their time making decisions. Deciphering the results of a survey of 1,200 global business leaders, they estimated that ...