Wharton professor and organizational psychologist Adam Grant is well known for being a giver. He even wrote the book on it called Give and Take about the benefits of being a giver. But owing to his ...

Life coaching can provide helpful services for some people, but scrutiny is needed. The Good Brigade/DigitalVision via Getty Images Life coach, wellness coach, business coach, weight loss coach, ...

Being a physician is a difficult job. They must make complex, high-stakes decisions under severe pressure, with limited information about the patient, the disease and the treatment, while juggling ...

In this third installment, I consider the a mental shortcut called "availability." Let us now meditate on sharks, airplane parts, and the letters of the alphabet. Are you more likely to be killed by a ...

But here is the catch: When you’re constantly busy, your brain takes the path of 'least resistance', not the path of 'best outcome'. Your primary cognitive shortcut is now a glitch: The Panic Default.

Algorithms and analytics are now common used by professional sports, in sales forecasts, lending decisions and by car insurance providers. Managers and other decision makers no longer simply 'go with ...

For the longest time, I thought I was free of biases. Undoubtedly, it was other people who had been hijacked by their tricky brains, not me. I even took an implicit association test from Harvard ...