Each decision-making method has its strengths and is appropriate under certain circumstances. Each also has particular consequences for the group’s future operation. An effective group understands ...

Decision analysis looks at the paradigm in which an individual decision maker (or decision group) contemplates a choice of action in an uncertain environment. The theory of decision analysis is ...

From small committees to national elections, group decision-making can be complicated -- and it may not always settle on the best choice. That's partly because some members of the group do research on ...

Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for Ernst & Young staff during their annual ...

OK, group decicion-making may not be the most momentous problem, but it is one of the most frequently annoying. Making everyday choices with other people often goes something like this: You and your ...

This post is a review of Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making. By Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale University Press. 277 pp. $32.50. Rational Choice Theory ...