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 ...

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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 ...

Automated decision making is basically when computers make choices on their own, using data and rules instead of a person.

Good decision-making requires weighing the value of immediate rewards versus delayed rewards. For instance, would we prefer to consume one piece of chocolate or five pieces? The answer may not be as ...

People typically make life choices based on their desire to feel good. This approach sometimes leads to making choices that are detrimental in the long run. For example, when visiting a forest on a ...

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 ...

The team held a kick-off meeting on June 23, 2023, with the NCHRP panel. Multiple panelists expressed the timeliness of the project and its importance for helping transportation organizations make ...

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 ...

AI is being woven into military systems intended to help human commanders make decisions in times of crisis, but there is no real-world data for training machines about nuclear war.