Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

Many people naturally gravitate to simplistic thinking. It’s fast, it feels like common sense in the moment, and can sometimes be captured by slogans that use alliteration, rhymes, or parallel ...

Binary thinking -- either/or thinking -- is the opposite of quantified, dimensional thinking and it is especially dangerous in medicine and mental health. It is the thinking of division. It falls ...

We live in a society where we often think in “either/or” terms. In this style of thinking, only one thing can be true and we struggle to handle competing tensions, tasks and assignments. We get ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...

While facilitating a recent strategy session with a leadership team navigating the acceleration of AI, one leader remarked half-joking, “It feels like we’re trying to lead under the constant threat of ...

Recent controversy over the management of Washington’s older state-owned forests has been dominated by an either/or framework: Either we clear-cut these tracts or prevent any harvest at all. Cut it ...

Entrepreneurs are faced with multiple decisions every day — sometimes dozens before lunch. Too often, the people asking for them think they're doing you a favor by framing them as "either/or." One of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The reality? Great leadership rarely lives on one side of the spectrum. Organizations today ...