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Welcome to Decisions Matter!, the podcast that investigates the kingdom of decision-making challenges, within uncertain contexts.Every week, we'll untangle the intricate threads of choices that shape our business lives. Through engaging dialogues, we'll navigate demanding decisions, pivotal crossroads, and strategies that could lead us towards better outcomes.This podcast is brought to you, in collaboration with DSA Decision Science Alliance, a dynamic community dedicated to unraveling the intricate world of decision-making.So… whether you're seeking guidance to take better decisions or ...

Where do I want to live? What career should I start? Who do I want to marry? Do I want children? These are examples of some of life's biggest and most talked about decisions. But what about the 35,000 other decisions that the average person makes every single day? Adrienne is a leading wellness professional and has worked with some of the world's biggest brands to help them improve their performance and wellbeing. In this book, she shares the best insights, helpful anecdotes and most importantly, actions that you can start taking in your everyday life.

Decision-making is a critical part of management, and bad choices can damage careers and the bottom line. This book offers the tools and advice managers need to avoid common biases and arrive at and implement decisions that are both sound and ethical.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

Great organizations are made up of great people. And for leaders at all levels within those organizations, the ability to find, hire, integrate, and retain great people is an absolutely critical skill - critical to their organization's success, and critical to their own success. But for most people, making great appointments is difficult, time-consuming, and even scary. Few have received any formal training in it, and there are very few resources available to make up for that lack of training. This book fills that gap.

This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed. Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making—a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency but our very freedom.

In What Matters Next: A Leader's Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That's Moving Too Fast, renowned author and consultant Kate O'Neill delivers a roadmap to achieve business growth, transformation, and innovation through the use of emerging technologies—but crucially, in a human-centric manner that benefits both business and humanity.

Welcome to Governance Matters, the podcast that empowers board members, executives, and governance professionals with actionable insights to enhance decision-making, foster transparency, and drive organizational success. Each episode explores key topics in board leadership, from best practices to emerging trends, with expert interviews, real-world examples, and practical advice. Whether you’re an experienced leader or just stepping into the boardroom, Governance Matters is your go-to resource for mastering governance excellence.

So how do you build a company that matters? Companies and people that matter have successfully become the obvious choices in the hearts and minds of their customers, their employees, and their communities. They elevate themselves by consistently finding ways to solve the most pressing needs their markets face. The result? They create more value year after year and build sustainable, differentiated organizations.