Why You Shouldn't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m.

"Many people feel like they do their best work -- and are most focused -- early in the morning. Willpower is strongest then, before being depleted during the day. Research also finds that we're happiest in the mornings. . ."

Tough Calls: How 40 CEOs Made Their Career-defining Decisions

"Motivated by his own experience, Steinbaum decided to explore similar defining moments of other CEOs. The results of his efforts have been compiled in an insightful volume titled, 'Tough Calls from the Corner Office: Top Business Leaders Reveal Their Career-Defining Moments.'"

Incident Provides Insight Into Obama's Decision-Making Process

"The time between Mr. Obama’s first reading of the Rolling Stone article and his decision to accept General McChrystal’s resignation offers an insight into the president’s decision-making process under intense stress: He appears deliberative and open to debate, but in the end, is coldly decisive."

Hunches, Decision-Making, and Battle

". . .The study complements a growing body of work suggesting that the speed with which the brain reads and interprets sensations like the feelings in one’s own body and emotions in the body language of others is central to avoiding imminent threats."

'10-10-10': A Fast Approach to the Right Decision

"In her new book '10-10-10,' Suzy Welch advocates a fast and reasoned approach to decision making by asking readers to think about the impact their decisions will have in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years."

Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions

"Why do smart people make bad decisions? With Congress grilling bank CEOs Wednesday, it's a timely question. Regulators and business leaders continue to try to figure out how decision-makers' missteps may have triggered the economic meltdown. Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, has studied decision-making, and tried to track down some answers in a new book he's co-authored called 'Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You."

Study Suggests Why Gut Instincts Work

"Sometimes when you think you're guessing, your brain may actually know better. After conducting some unique memory and recognition tests, while also recording subjects' brain waves, scientists conclude that some gut feelings are not just guesswork after all. Rather, we access memories we aren't even aware we have. 'We may actually know more than we think we know in everyday situations, too,' said Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern University and co-researcher on the study. 'Unconscious memory may come into play, for example, in recognizing the face of a perpetrator of a crime or the correct answer on a test. Or the choice from a horde of consumer products may be driven by memories that are quite alive on an unconscious level.' The findings were published online Sunday in the journal Nature Neuroscience."