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Fundamentally, how does anyone know us as individual leaders and/or judge our leadership effectiveness? The first thing that might come to mind is your personality. Secondly, how you communicate: how ...

Choose a path and move forward. Source: Courtesy of RE Watson Whether at home or in the workplace, the choices we make range from snap decisions to thoughtful, strategic ones. Styles include trusting ...

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 ...

Smart, rational decision-making isn’t an innate gift; rather, it’s an art, a process of weighing inputs such as data and risk on one hand and emotions like fear and uncertainty on the other. When you ...

The need to make quality decisions is pervasive and continuous throughout our lives. This is especially germane when it comes to the ongoing practice of our careers. All along the long-term spectrum ...

Due to the devastating impact of the pandemic on the restaurant industry, one of my coaching clients, Alex, who served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a regional chain of 24 diners in the ...

Learn how savvy entrepreneurs are using science-backed strategies — and even AI — to make fewer, smarter choices and reclaim their brainpower. Start by standardizing small, inconsequential decisions.

Have a problem to solve or a decision to make? If so, there are several tried-and-true methods to turn to. As customer experience professionals, the work you do to identify improvement opportunities ...

Decisions lose power when they lose stakeholder engagement, according to Eric Pliner, CEO of YSC Consulting and author of the new book Difficult Decisions. Leaders want, and crucially need, buy-in.

From what to wear to what to tackle first at work, we make thousands of decisions every day. Some are trivial, like choosing oatmeal instead of avocado toast. But other decisions can have serious ...