How do we move forward? How do I move forward? These questions have been haunting me for the past few months. In my experience, democracy has never seemed more fragile. And in my efforts to further ...

Class Discussion March 20: Collective Action and Decision-making James Surowiecki's excerpt on the wisdom of crowds presents some really compelling ideas. It would seem that crowds are more likely to ...

Years ago, I worked for a Fortune 40 corporation which, at the time, sported nearly 60,000 employees. As you might imagine, getting anything done required teamwork, active listening, and collaboration ...

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Judgment aggregation is an emerging interdisciplinary field that examines how individual opinions, beliefs, or preferences over a set of interrelated propositions can be combined into a coherent ...

Decision-making is part of our daily lives. We spend our time making decisions big and small, whether it's what to eat, how to get to a place or how to plan tasks at work. Nothing could be more normal ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kiva Kolstein We’re ...

In today’s rising authoritarianism, exhausting distraction tactics, and organizational contradictions, the question of how we lead is as important as what we fight for. Across movements and ...

Collective decision-making is common in social animal species, including humans, and refers to decisions made by groups of individuals instead of single individuals themselves. These groups may be ...