Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about strong leadership, career strategy, and managing up. Some people simply say, “Yes,” to everything, because they’re ...

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Where to go? What if I lose a lot? What if I'm diving headfirst off the cliff? We know that life is made up of making decisions, which are not generally a problem, but ...

At the intersection of robotics and social science, researchers explore how heterogeneity, influence, and uncertainty drive smarter collective decisions—whether in human groups, robot swarms, or ...

The difficulty of predicting the future complicates decision-making for people at every level of an organization from low-level employees who may be angling for a promotion or thinking of a career ...

The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are ...

Decisions come at leaders fast and furious. Many leaders are responsible for 10s, 100s or 1,000s of staff. It’s rare that a black-and-white-absolute issue crosses a leader’s desk. After an initial ...

Professionals don’t experience uncertainty in decision making — as an amateur, I “knew” this. Before I worked in a medical center, I thought medicine was an exact science: Doctors were trained to ...

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, ...

Warren Buffett famously said, “Investing is simple, but not easy.” And unsurprisingly, he's spot on—while investing is just a math problem, it’s not one most people are equipped to solve. Take the ...

Everyday sights and sounds quietly shape the choices people make, often without them realizing it. New research suggests that some individuals become especially influenced by these environmental cues, ...