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A selection of insights to reflect on and boost ideas.
Risk in good times and bad
In general, as human beings, we seek to avoid uncertainty. We prefer the security that knowing what is going to happen gives us, we choose certainties over ambiguities. However, in…
With much room for doubt
In companies (and in life) we like certainties. We want to know how much we are going to earn, that a certain product launch is going to go well, or…
Warning, hazardous path!
We make decisions all the time, and even if we’re not trained to do so, we are supposed to do it right when seeking long-term success. However, if we are…
How to get my team to decide once and for all: roles and responsibilities in decision-making
To make an agile decision, it is essential that decision makers are clear about the decisions they must make, know what their role is in the decision-making process and have…
Smart meetings, how to use meetings to make decisions?
A single meeting in a company can cost $20,000. Here are some guidelines to keep only the useful ones and make them really work.
Collaboration yes, but to a reasonable extent
With the rise of the Internet and the increasing complexity of organizations, collaboration has become a favorite word in modern management. But collaborating also has a cost, in time and…
Decisions made by their owners: emotion and reason when deciding
More and more specialists in neuroscience affirm that we make most decisions guided by emotion, and then justify them through reason. However, it is our challenge to ensure that reason…
Guessing, justifying, or deciding?
When making decisions in companies, those responsible find themselves with a great difficulty: the impossibility of knowing what will happen in the future. Some challenges that may arise depending on…
How about you, are you good at making decisions?
It is difficult to find entrepreneurs or executives who believe that they do not know how to make decisions. However, some biases that make us systematically be wrong exist. What…