Stanford's Amin Saberi, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, and Farnaz Ronaghi, co-founder of NovoEd, discuss how leaders make high-stakes decisions under pressure. Recorded as a Stanford Online webinar tied to the course Making High-Quality Decisions, the conversation moves through collaborative versus committee-based decision structures, when to trust data over intuition, and how product teams decide to pivot. Saberi and Ronaghi share specific episodes from their own careers, including handling customer conflicts and trade-offs and managing analytical versus intuitive team members, then walk through concrete tactics for surfacing hidden biases, generating multiple options before committing to one, and documenting decisions so the reasoning survives after the choice is made. The session closes with advice on reviewing past decisions to calibrate judgment going forward. Timestamped sections make it easy to jump to topics like time pressure, incomplete information, or persuasive communication of a decision once it is made.