All of which heightens the need for parents to teach and model strong decision-making behavior to their younger children, who are becoming vulnerable to such pressures at ever-earlier ages.

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Social influence represents a profound change in the way we need to think about consumer behavior and decision making, but there are dozens if not hundreds of social strategies businesses can choose from, and the most lucrative are based on the power of connecting face-to-face.

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Its effects are mainly neurobehavioral, including poor decision-making, impaired memory, erratic behavior, use of drugs and alcohol, depression and suicide.

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You get better decision-making and you get less herd behavior and both of those things hit your bottom line with very positive results.

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Both Singh and Jablow noticed that conversations inside and outside the classroom were increasingly veering toward questions of ethical mismanagement, risky and unsustainable behavior and short-term decision making, often leading to lengthy debates on responsible business practices.

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Additionally, women leaders are more likely than their male peers to demonstrate types of leadership behavior that improve corporate organizational performance, including participative decision-making, role modeling, inspiration, expectations and rewards, and mentoring (p. 7).

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This concern about the Bush Administration's approach to decision-making is heightened by several previous actions -- actions that suggest a pattern of behavior of which the non-summit idea appears to be but the most recent example.

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