Personality tests tend to follow a simple formula: rate yourself on a series of statements such as “I feed off of the energy of others” or “I am prone to overthinking a situation” or “I rely on logic ...

Research in decision-making has increasingly focused on the continuum between maximisation and satisficing. Maximisation is characterised by an exhaustive search for the optimum option, often ...

Every transformative company, career leap, or disruptive innovation can be traced back to a single, pivotal decision—for example, the moment Bezos launched Amazon from his garage, when Musk bet ...

The job of a manager is, above all, to make decisions. At any moment in any day, most executives are engaged in some aspect of decision making: exchanging information, reviewing data, coming up with ...

Swedish obstetricians and gynecologists are noticeably more emotionally stable and conscientious compared to the majority of the Swedish population. Based on the doctors' personalities, their decision ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kingsley Gate, a leading global, private equity-backed executive search firm, today unveiled “Bad Decisions: Why companies miss the most important factor in executive hiring ...

This post is written by Bhavleen Singh, research affiliate at the Department of Economics, Monk Prayogshala. At 18, society often labels us as adults, yet this milestone merely scratches the surface ...

The average person makes 35,000 decisions a day, or so the saying goes. What do I want for breakfast? Should I take that job offer? Is it time to replace my HVAC unit, or should I just keep repairing ...

Eugene Lee Davids does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...