There are two styles of decision-making: intuitive and analytical. Bjørn T. Bakken, a researcher BI Norwegian Business School, wanted know which one was best in a crisis situation. Turns out, you need both. “In a real crisis, you simply don’t have time to wait for sufficient informati

Dan and Chip Heath are the authors of the best-selling books Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, and Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. As a fan, I subscribe to their e-newsletter, and they sent on

My mobile phone died last week. It decided it didn’t like the system upgrade it was receiving, so it took itself out of circulation. In the process, it took me out of circulation as far as my social networking life was concerned. I could no longer check in on Foursquare, post ph

There was a lot of industry news this past week you may have missed. Here are some headlines that caught our eyes. Do You Know What Life Will Be Like In 5 Years? IBM’s Top Scientist Does —Fast Company “In the 5 in 5 report IBM’s top scientists report on what the worl

What’s going to change in your career next year compared to this year? It depends on who you ask, and there are a lot of career trends stories out there. I’ve found a good one, though, and I thought I’d share it with you. Written by career adviser Irene Kotov for Lif