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At the FBI Academy, we spent five months learning how to think under pressure. There were no timeouts in our firearms training to gather and evaluate data or consult trusted colleagues. Often, we only ...

Since big decisions are so important yet so rare, I have also asked people to, in retrospect, tell me whether each big decision was a good or bad one. I have also asked them to rate how they made the ...

One of the most daunting tasks for new leaders is making decisions that impact others. Although the average person makes thousands of conscious decisions each day — some estimates suggest as many as ...