Everyone talks about making business decisions based on numbers, data, and facts, including me. But what do you do when there aren’t hard facts and you have to make the best decision based on unclear ...
Making difficult decisions is an inevitable part of being a leader. And at times, those decisions are unpopular. Yet in instances when it requires the efforts and cooperation of their team members, ...
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 ...
At the FBI Academy, we spent five months learning how to think under pressure. There were no timeouts in our firearms training to gather and evaluate data or consult trusted colleagues. Often, we only ...
A strength of overthinkers is that they're willing to exert cognitive effort to experience better outcomes. Here's how overthinkers who are considering a major life decision can best reap the benefits ...
That got me thinking about the process of decision-making and the paralysis of analysis that can come when you have too much information and time to overthink. In a fireside chat, one of Fast ...