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 ...

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 ...

Why do people often make decisions in the same pattern and choose the tried and tested, even when there are apparently better alternatives? A research team led by Stefan Kiebel, Professor of Cognitive ...

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Professionals don’t experience uncertainty in decision making — as an amateur, I “knew” this. Before I worked in a medical center, I thought medicine was an exact science: Doctors were trained to ...

before you. On each tab, YES or NO is written in bold letters. Like clockwork, it pops up whenever you feel stuck—your own personal wheel of fortune, only it never asks you to buy a vowel. If you are ...

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It was a Words with Friends chat that first gave Megan Phelps-Roper pause. People have a marked tendency to cling to past investments, whether financial, social, or emotional—even when it becomes ...