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decision-making

[dih-sizh-uhn-mey-king] / dɪˈsɪʒ ənˌmeɪ kɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
executive
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Analysts have called Syrskiy a micromanager who prefers top-down decision-making to the horizontal structures promoted by today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization militaries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

She explained the volunteers - or community welfare responders - are trained to monitor things such as blood pressure and oxygen levels, aiding the decision-making of clinicians back at base.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Antidiscrimation laws don’t ban specific technologies from helping employers pick candidates, so there was nothing wrong with video resumes by themselves, the regulator wrote; what matters is the decision-making process that follows.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Early in learning, the sorting task primarily activated the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for executive functions such as planning, reasoning, and conscious decision-making.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Chancellorsville came down to some ineffable, magical decision-making ability that Lee possessed and Hooker did not.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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