One of the most challenging aspects of adulthood is making decisions, such as who you choose to date or marry, how you invest your hard-earned money, or where you want to live and work. Although ...

Especially difficult decisions, ones bound to upset some individual or group, provoke knee-rattling anxiety in even the most level-headed of decision makers. And because human beings abhor anxiety, ...

“We have a consensus culture,” a Fortune 500 executive recently told me, after I asked them how their company usually makes decisions. It’s an answer I hear often, unsurprisingly. Consensus is in ...