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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

before you. On each tab, YES or NO is written in bold letters. Like clockwork, it pops up whenever you feel stuck—your own personal wheel of fortune, only it never asks you to buy a vowel. If you are ...

Decision making is one of the most important skills your children need to develop to become healthy and mature adults. Decision making is crucial because the decisions your children make dictate the ...

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 ...

Why do good leaders sometimes make spectacularly bad decisions? In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Andrew Campbell and co-authors Jo Whitehead and Sydney Finkelstein discuss what they learned by ...