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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...