How do bees make group decisions without a leader? Math experts have determined that the best strategy is for a few to assume ...

Most companies are not slow because their teams lack talent. They are slow because too many decisions are left unmade.

Big decisions are messier than they look, but there are things you can try before taking the leap – or not.

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Despite lacking brains or nervous systems, slime molds are capable of making surprisingly sophisticated decisions: navigating mazes, finding food and even remembering where they found it last time.

Life is largely made up of choices and success is a matter of making wise decisions. Australian preacher Frank William Boreham says, “We make our decisions and then our decisions make us.” Every ...

That’s the result of a fascinating study led by professor Uwe Sunde at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Most studies on decision making look at simple decisions, the researchers noted, so ...

A recent survey of 2,000 Americans found that making more spontaneous decisions can lead to greater happiness. The respondents who considered themselves spontaneous were 40% more likely to consider ...

Mr. Epstein is the author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.” If in making decisions you are often guided by a search for the best, you are going about decision making all wrong — and ...

So you got a raise. Should you put the money in your 401(k)? Or would you be better off paying down your credit-card balance, prepaying your mortgage or doing some of each? Most people juggle multiple ...