#decision-making

#decision-making

Accurate economic data is essential for informed decision-making by leaders. The federal government established 13 statistical agencies, including the BLS, to provide this crucial information.

The average person makes nearly 35,000 decisions each day, ranging from the trivial to the consequential, impacting both personal and professional life.

Annie Duke emphasizes that success requires grit, meaning that one must push through tough times. The ability to persist in challenging situations is crucial, as worthwhile pursuits are seldom easy.

In many organizations, decisions are made in boardrooms, far removed from the customer's reality. Metrics are dissected. Dashboards are studied. Yet somehow, the real customer experience gets overlooked or misrepresented.

"We don't need to run over every player on defense, nor should we try. It's critical that those plays are available to us, and we do a good job of picking and choosing the appropriate time."

Creative fulfillment on one hand, financial insecurity on the other; feeling passion about your work versus a long career timeline.

When stress builds without relief, the brain shifts into survival mode. In survival mode, clarity and presence of mind can quickly disappear.

Big Bet Decisions are infrequent, high-stakes decisions that can significantly impact a company's future, like acquisitions and major investments.

Design doesn't necessarily always have a value problem. They have a translation problem. We do valuable work. But when we explain it to executives, we explain it like they're a designer.

The pre-mortem method involves team members imagining a project failure and identifying reasons for that failure, usually surfacing unexpected and valuable issues.

Even with all our progress in science and education, people still confuse correlation with causation. It's not just about not knowing statistics. This mix-up runs deeper.

An approval matrix template is a workflow document that helps streamline and standardize the approval process within an organization. It visually represents who is authorized to approve specific actions, decisions, or documents.

You will have to make very practical (sometimes very cold) decisions about what you want from life and what you're willing to give up. And if you don't make them, then life will make them for you.

Time vampires are events that drain your time, seemingly innocuously. For example, 10 minutes of wasted time daily adds up to over 60 hours in a year.

The most valuable outcome was discovering capabilities we didn't know existed. Our most technical co-founder, who rarely spoke in client meetings, turned out to be exceptionally skilled at understanding customer needs when he had to step into that role.

Venn diagrams use overlapping circles to show the relationship between two or more things, facilitating comparisons across various fields.

Dr. David H. Rosmarin leads a roundtable at TechCrunch All Stage 2025, focusing on transforming anxiety into a strategic advantage for startup founders.

Many organizations are prioritizing the integration of AI tools into the workplace. Early studies show AI can boost employee performance, improve communication, and help expand customer bases.

The first match is always difficult... that it can be hard not to force things, not to get carried away with a determination to impress.

Emotional exhaustion can mute inner clarity, leading capable women to self-doubt.

“The path to the future isn’t a straight line. That’s where strategic foresight comes in. Foresight isn’t prediction; it’s a discipline for understanding complexity.”