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 ...

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Good decision-making skills can make the world an easier, less daunting place. Jan. 19, 2012 -- John F. Kennedy once said, "Change is the law of life." Fast forward to today, when the law of life is ...

Smart leaders with vast data still make bad decisions. But others, under similar pressure, make game-changing ones. In 1982, Johnson & Johnson swiftly recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol after ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With the world around us changing rapidly, uncertainty is inescapable. We feel it in both our personal and ...

Your star employee just quit, and with them went the institutional knowledge behind your company’s most profitable product line. The decisions that led to its success? Lost forever. This scenario ...

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 ...

Simplify decision-making by grouping choices into three categories based on their potential consequences and outcomes: minor impact, medium impact and material impact. Follow key steps — decide to ...

Decisions come at leaders fast and furious. Many leaders are responsible for 10s, 100s or 1,000s of staff. It’s rare that a black-and-white-absolute issue crosses a leader’s desk. After an initial ...

'Decide and Bet' is the bible that dissects the architecture of human decision-making. Its author, Annie Duke, a celebrity in the United States, leaves no room for improvisation: "You must be ...