We often see efficiency as good and inefficiency as wasteful. Economists teach us that increased efficiency improves our standard of living and make our lives better.

However, too much of a good thing has the opposite effect. Some motivation produces excellent performance while too mu...

Traditional decision making often follows these stages to get to a single choice or answer:

• We consider a number of choices, discussing the pros and cons of each choice or option.
• If available, we’ll present data for each option.
• We vote for our fav...

Everything in your life exists because you first made a choice about something. Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference.

Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society an...