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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 ...

Business decision makers sometimes face adversarial priorities when it comes to decision making. In the interest of furthering the business, good decisions must be grounded in research, forethought, ...

Effective decision making to avoid failures and maximize success is your key role as a leader: that’s why “decision-makers” is synonymous with leaders. Yet how can you ensure that your decision making ...

Every decision comes with an element of risk. It’s a fact that can paralyze a leader who overthinks in their effort to drive that risk to near zero before they act. It’s a common enough phenomenon to ...

“If you get too much information, your decision-making quickly becomes as bad as if you’d gotten no information at all.” If a causal model shows that eating salty food raises your blood pressure, but ...