Recently I was working to prepare a keynote address on decisiveness and had a real problem, ironically, determining what to present. Although I had some excellent research I had done myself as well as ...

The workplace is littered with problems that need to be solved on a daily basis, bet it a customer complaint, a quality issue, budget cuts, or communication issues and team dynamics. With all of these ...

Problems are often opportunities in disguise, and they are almost always portals for learning. A methodical approach based on business problem-solving steps increases the odds of developing long-term ...

Our lives are judged by the cumulative results of the decisions we make. Decisions are choices. Choices have consequences. Too often the pros and cons of each choice are not weighed. Effective problem ...

Have a problem to solve or a decision to make? If so, there are several tried-and-true methods to turn to. As customer experience professionals, the work you do to identify improvement opportunities ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As a leader in your organization, you might as well be called “chief problem-solver.” But if you’re like most leaders, you might feel ...

In January 1993, a gunman murdered seven people in a fast-food restaurant in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. In his dual roles as an administrative executive and spokesperson for the police department, ...

Faced with a tough decision that needs to be made quickly, most leaders’ command-and- control instincts kick in. They are often wrong. In a world changing at an extraordinary pace, expecting a leader ...

Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important. They try to make the few important decisions on the highest level of conceptual understanding. They try ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the present study business managers in Kabi Pharmacia Company were trained in the use of the autonomous method in their decision-making ...