Your star employee just quit, and with them went the institutional knowledge behind your company’s most profitable product line. The decisions that led to its success? Lost forever. This scenario ...

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Humility isn’t just a personality trait — it’s a system. The strongest cultures are built by leaders who design transparency into how decisions get made. Cultures built on a leader’s personality are ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

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Many seriously ill patients receive much of their care at home from one or more family members. However, shared decision making (SDM)—the collaborative process whereby clinicians and patients work ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

The US CDC’s vaccine advisory panel recommended that Americans who want a COVID vaccine should consult with a healthcare provider to determine whether the benefit outweighs the risk. The Advisory ...

A CDC advisory panel voted Friday to shift COVID vaccine guidance toward "individual decision-making," a policy the agency refers to as "shared clinical decision-making." The approach involves ...

Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during ...

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. For decades, most ...

Collective decision-making is hardly a perfect science. Broken processes, data overload, information asymmetry, and other inequities only compound the challenges that come from large, disparate ...