common decision-making biases

A new software is available that would eliminate many tedious tasks and speed up your team’s workflow. You choose to stick to the old way of doing things, thus stalling your team’s productivity.

• Anchoring bias

• Status quo bias

• Confirmation bias

•  Availability bias

You've come up with an idea and given it to your team to discuss and do market research to test its viability. Then, you cherry-pick the supporting results instead of objectively looking at both sides of the argument.

• Confirmation bias

• Authority bias

• Overconfidence bias

• Similarity bias

Last quarter, when your team finalized a profitable project, you took personal credit for it, emphasizing your hard work and management skills. This quarter, your team didn’t reach several important KPIs, and you blamed this on external factors and poor strategic planning at the company management level.

• Anchoring bias

• Confirmation bias

• Self-serving bias

• Overconfidence bias

You are in the process of hiring a new teammate. You notice the candidate’s experience with a specific software program, ask several questions about that topic, and overlook other essential skills or qualities the candidate possesses.

• Availability bias

• Anchoring bias

• Status quo bias 

• Similarity bias

Your supervisor requests that you complete an assignment despite noticing several flaws. As your supervisor holds a position of influence, you proceed with the task, disregarding the issues and choosing not to voice your concerns.

• Status quo bias

• Self-serving bias

• Similarity bias

• Authority bias