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 ...

You’ve only been in the shopping centre for a few minutes, but back in the car park, you suddenly freeze. Where did I park? The memory feels gone. You guess and start to head left. Then you see the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering careers and strategic leadership for executives and managers. You can’t be both. You can’t be an effective leader and an ...

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 ...

Evidence-based decision making (EBDM)—using the best available evidence from multiple sources to make informed decisions—is critical to the success of any organization. In a new study, researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...