From small committees to national elections, group decision-making can be complicated—and it may not always settle on the best choice. That's partly because some members of the group do research on ...

“Multivoting” — allowing people more than one vote so they can select multiple options if desired — is most effective in finding the “best choice,” according to a recent study from the University of ...

Groupthink is the term used when decision-making groups make hasty and premature decisions without doing the critical evaluation work required for making well-thought-out and good decisions.

A few years ago, I read “Six Thinking Hats” by psychologist Edward de Bono. The core idea is simple: each hat represents a distinct way of thinking about a problem. While the framework is often ...

Values-based decision making differs substantially from more traditional, top-down models of decision making in that everyone in an organization has a part to play in establishing and maintaining the ...

The research team received funding from the Ford Foundation to support this work. We surveyed foundation leaders from May to December 2020, asking them to estimate the extent to which their ...

Making the right decision can make or break your career. It can mean the difference between advancing in an organization or getting demoted or even fired. If you agree with that sentiment, great — and ...

A fair percentage of leaders, especially in startups, professional groups and not-for-profits, pursue the holy grail of decision making by consensus. But it’s usually a bad idea, leading often to ...

Several landmark therapeutic advances in multiple myeloma (MM) have led to an unprecedented number of options available to patients and their physicians as shared decision making is attempted. A ...