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Decision-Making Bias

CaseInterview.com

Some people make decisions based on their intuition or “gut” feeling. Others make decisions based purely on the data and logic. Neither is wholly right or wrong, as both have problems with bias. Let's say you’re thinking of making a certain expensive purchase. Sometimes our mental model is wrong.

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Root Out Bias from Your Decision-Making Process

Harvard Business

We’ve all experienced the disappointment of an important decision not going our way. The feeling is far worse when you feel that the decision was somehow “rigged” against you — that you never had a chance, that your input wasn’t given its fair due, or that only some of the data was considered.

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Podcast Interview on Behavioral Investing: Managing the Emotions Behind Our Decisions

Steve Shu Consulting

That said, we can put in place processes to help ensure that we make the best decisions we can for the things that really matter, while also avoiding some of the major obstacles that happen on a regular basis, such as overconfidence, natural biases in forecasting the future, thinking in narrow frames, and others.

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Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap?

Harvard Business

In the face of escalating complexities, organizations are increasingly relying on teams to tackle these intricate issues and drive pivotal organizational decisions. To extract maximum value from team dynamics, leaders must remain mindful of potential biases that may impact team dynamics and to actively steer and fine-tune team processes.

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Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making

Harvard Business

But implicit and unconscious biases — not to mention the constant juggling of priorities required at work — can lead to inequitable decision-making.

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The Strategic Benefits of Randomized Decision-Making

Harvard Business

In highly ambiguous and challenging contexts, a random approach to decision-making confers a number of advantages.

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When Implementing Behavioral Science, What Is the Role of a Choice Architect?

Steve Shu Consulting

In order to get people to get to healthy saving rates over time, the architect may create a way for people to commit today to savings increasing in the future (a process which addresses psychological biases associated with present bias and hyperbolic discounting). ethical, philosophical, financial), and desired outcome measurements.

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