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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 ...

The best way to make good decisions, the saying goes, is to make bad ones. But after several tumultuous years, even the most experienced finance leaders may have reached decision fatigue. Charged with ...

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 ...

Military personnel, firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency room physicians, and many others can find themselves in circumstances requiring rapid and accurate decisions. The consequences of ...

One of the most daunting tasks for new leaders is making decisions that impact others. Although the average person makes thousands of conscious decisions each day — some estimates suggest as many as ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...