"As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions," the Amazon founder said.

Making decisions is a key function of leadership. Leaders must make complex decisions that affect the lives of their teams, businesses, and communities. Expertise in the fine art of making decisions ...

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You sit down with your trusty pen and paper (or take to your phone's Notes app) and make your customary pros-and-cons list.

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 ...

Great leaders aren’t defined by how many decisions they make, but by the discipline to make fewer, better ones. Effective leadership is defined by the quality and impact of decisions, not the number ...

The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are ...

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AI isn't making decisions for organizations, but reshaping how they get made. Here's why over-automating may be as costly as not automating at all.

One of the factors that makes some decisions "big" is how rarely they happen. Most people only get one degree. Most only get married once, perhaps twice. The average number of kids per family is less ...