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The Lockstep Method™ and Simplimental® were developed for executives by executives, and road tested by real businesses.
The Lockstep Method™ and Simplimental® apply leading research from organizational behavior, sociology and psychology to better manage team dynamics, individual biases and overall decision-making. Our process relies on extensive executive experience coupled with sophisticated quantitative & statistical analysis.
We've provided a number of resources below to help you understand the complexity and challenges associated with conventional decision-making. In our experience, our most informed clients are our most satisfied clients.
Decision Making Research / Resources
INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING / BIASES
20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions
Samantha Lee and Shana Lebowitz
Business Insider, August 26, 2015
The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
]ohn S. Hammond, Ralph L Keeney, and Howard Raiffa
Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman and John W. Payne
Harvard Business Review, May 2015
Major Choice Strategies - Ways to decide, from the simple to the complex
Dan Goldstein
Psychology Today, May 21, 2008
Art Markman Ph.D.
Psychology Today, January 3, 2012
Four Reasons You Can't Trust Yourself
Peg Streep
Psychology Today, May 28, 2014
The Psychological Basis of Quality Decision Making
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth, Professor Berkeley
The Cognitive Process of Decision Making
Yingxu Wang and Guenther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada
TEAM DECISION-MAKING / GROUP DYNAMICS
The Dynamics of Group Decision-Making - Idealized and Realistic Models of Collaboration in Groups
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Decisions Are More Effective When More People Are Involved from the Start
Jim Whitehurst, March 15, 2016; Harvard Business Review
Collaborative Fixation: Effects of Others’ Ideas on Brainstorming
Nicholas W. Kohn - The University of Texas at Arlington & Steven M. Smith - Texas A&M University
Turns Out The Way Your Team Is Brainstorming Is Probably All Wrong
Vivian Giang, Business Insider, Jan. 4, 2012
Leadership, Group Dynamics and Decision-Making
Wickispaces
How Group Dynamics Affect Decisions
By Paul Rogers and Todd Senturia
Bain Consulting Brief, December 03, 2013
Recent Studies Help Explain Why Some Meetings Fail
Daniel Goleman
New York Times, June 7, 1988
The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings
Eric Matson, Fast Company, April 30, 1996
LEADERSHIP / CHANGE MANAGEMENT
What causes top management teams to make poor strategic decisions?
CB Stephenson 2012 DBA thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
Stop Making Plans; Start Making Decisions
Michael C. Mankins, Richard Steele; Harvard Business Review, Jan 2006
Half of Business Decisions Fail Because of Management’s Blunders, New Study Finds.
Ohio State University
Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making
Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi, Tom Blaser; Harvard Business Review, October 2106
The Purpose of Strategy is to Win: An interview with A.G. Lafley
Korn Ferry; February 13, 2013
Assuming Leadership. The First 100 Days
Boston Consulting Group
The Successful Leader’s First 100 Days
Jeremy Kourdi and Brian Edwards of Entendeo
Now you’re in charge: the first 100 days
Thomas J Neff and James M Citrin, Spencer Stuart
Ken Blanchard
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
The Strategic Decision-Making Process in Organizations
Sergio Janczak
Problems and Perspectives in Management, March, 2005
The Organization vs. The Strategy: Solving the Alignment Paradox
Jeffrey W. Bennett, Thomas E. Pernsteiner, Paul Kocourek, and Steven B. Hedlund
Organization and Individual Decision Making
Kathleen M. Carley, Associate Prof. of Sociology and Organization, Carnegie Mellon University
Dean Behrens, Dept. of Social and Decisions Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Decision Making in Organizations
Fred C. Lunenburg, International Journal of Management, Business and Administration
Volume 15, Number 1 – 2011
The Decision-Driven Organization
Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, Paul Rogers
Harvard Business Review June 2010
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making
Edited by Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck
How Decisions Happen in Organizations
James G. March
Stanford University 1991
OTHER
A Brief History of Decision Making
Leigh Buchanan, Andrew O'Connell
Harvard Business Review, January 2006
What are examples of bad strategic business decisions?
by Daniel J. Power, Editor
DSSResources.com
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