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This post is Part 1 in a 7-part series. Before Donald Trump became a US President, I used to watch his reality show Celebrity Apprentice, where stars competed in tasks to raise money for charity. I ...

Patrick J McGinnis coined the term ‘fear of missing out’ more than two decades ago. Today he shares tips for using it to become a better leader. We’ve all felt it: the pressure to go somewhere despite ...

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‘Give it some thought’ might actually be bad advice. How do you make a big, complex decision? Do you take time to carefully weigh all your options? Analyze all the facts? Or do you make decisions ...

Imagine you’re in line at your favourite bakery, deciding whether to have a doughnut or a tart. You weigh them up, the doughnut wins, and you settle on that. By the time you’re at the front of the ...

Adults make up to 35,000 decisions on average per day. But a 2023 Oracle study found that the number is rising, and 93 percent of people have changed how they make decisions, partly given the ...

Many people enter therapy because of a decision crisis. Should I stay with my partner or leave them to pursue a better sex life? Should I stick with my tiring but stable job or risk an adventurous new ...

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...

Utilizing market research to inform decision-making begins with clearly identifying the objective: What specific goal am I looking to achieve? The scope and nature of the decision to be made will ...

As president, George W. Bush got ridiculed for calling himself “the decider.” It seemed so pompous and self-important. But in reality, we are all deciders. The quality of our lives is determined by ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine you’re in line at your favourite bakery, deciding whether to have a ...