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In today’s complex, fast-moving workplaces, the ability to make clear, confident decisions isn’t just nice to have—it’s a leadership imperative. Yet even the most capable executives find themselves ...

Our careers are made up of millions of decisions. Because of this, the number-one habit of successful people is that they make good decisions. And once they make a decision, they don’t spend time ...

Effective decision making to avoid failures and maximize success is your key role as a leader: that’s why “decision-makers” is synonymous with leaders. Yet how can you ensure that your decision making ...

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, ...

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 ...

Since big decisions are so important yet so rare, I have also asked people to, in retrospect, tell me whether each big decision was a good or bad one. I have also asked them to rate how they made the ...

One of the most daunting tasks for new leaders is making decisions that impact others. Although the average person makes thousands of conscious decisions each day — some estimates suggest as many as ...

The team held a kick-off meeting on June 23, 2023, with the NCHRP panel. Multiple panelists expressed the timeliness of the project and its importance for helping transportation organizations make ...

There's a reason Adrienne Adhami is able to run marathons, write books, host podcasts and be a keynote speaker to industry-leading companies like Microsoft and Spotify: she's able to make good ...

Decision-making inherently involves cause–effect relationships that introduce causal challenges. We argue that reliable algorithms for decision-making need to build upon causal reasoning. Addressing ...