As part of my recent academic sabbatical, I spent some time at Harvard Business School with mentors and collaborators. In one conversation, a junior faculty shared a puzzle from her research that ...

Explore the psychology of decision-making. Learn how biases, heuristics, and emotions shape your choices daily. Uncover the hidden forces influencing your ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Constant decision-making, from daily choices to life-altering ones, can often lead to stress ...

Big decisions are messier than they look. I study how people make life's biggest decisions. In research, I asked more than 600 people to describe their 10 biggest decisions. Thousands more have since ...

Making decisions is a key function of leadership. Leaders must make complex decisions that affect the lives of their teams, businesses, and communities. Expertise in the fine art of making decisions ...

We make approximately 35,000 decisions every day, including dozens of tiny and major decisions on what to wear, what to eat, which route to take to work, where to go for lunch, and so on. It's ...

With the countless number of decisions to make every day, it can be easy to become overwhelmed or stuck. From choosing what to eat for lunch to deciding whether to attend a friend’s event, ...

This quick, three-step process can help you and your patients make health care decisions that align with their goals and values. Editor's note: Case 1 below was edited to clarify that John chose the ...

In group decisions, there are two concepts that can affect the quality of those decisions. One is groupthink, a word often ...

As president, George W. Bush got ridiculed for calling himself “the decider.” It seemed so pompous and self-important. But in reality, we are all deciders. The quality of our lives is determined by ...

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...