In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during ...

Tawn Albright is the Founder of the executive coaching firm Bowstring. He works with an array of leaders from start-ups to multinationals. Throughout my career, I've discovered a valuable lesson that ...

The ways in which humans can be triggered into making irrational decisions are many and varied. Investors make higher bids for stocks when the sun is shining. If you add paper packaging to a product ...

New York University neuroscientist Paul Glimcher has a suggestion that is as simple as it is counterintuitive: Rather than trying to pick the best option, start by eliminating the worst. Why do our ...

This post is a review of Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making. By Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale University Press. 277 pp. $32.50. Rational Choice Theory ...

In an era where artificial intelligence and digital technologies are reshaping every aspect of our lives, education stands at a pivotal crossroads. With increasing access to data and powerful analytic ...