Decision Making & Problem Solving in Management & Leadership & Business & Finance eBooks

Rescue the Problem Project

A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure

by Todd C. Williams ...

This one-of-a-kind guide provides project managers, executives, and customers alike with an in-depth start-to-finish process that ensure win-win solutions when things go awry.Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries to help them bring projects back from the brink of disaster. Now, in a market full of how-tos on the task of running a project, he ... Read more

$11.99 USD

This one-of-a-kind guide provides project managers, executives, and customers alike with an in-depth start-to-finish process that ensure win-win solutions when things go awry.Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries to help them bring projects back from the brink of disaster. Now, in a market full of how-tos on the task of running a project, he
... Read more
Wait

The Art and Science of Delay

by Frank Partnoy ...

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts ... Read more

$10.99 USD

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts
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人生升級的夜間習慣：45個「吸引機會」的晚間管理技巧

結果を出し続ける人が夜やること

by 後藤勇人 ...

Translated by 林佑純 ...

Series series 富能量
一流高手的晚上不同凡響！「好人脈＋好運氣＋好靈感」不會憑空出現，利用晚間時光，抓住翻轉人生的機會！本書提供45項夜間自我提升法，助你煥然一新、催生好靈感、擴展有效人脈、吸引豐盛機運，實現最終夢想！**　　★妥善運用夜晚的人，就能抓住機會**　　畢卡索、達爾文、邱吉爾、貓王……許多世界知名的優秀成功人物，都很善用夜間時光來激發靈感、累積實力。只要你願意，從現在開始，利用書中方法來度過夜晚，成為好機會源源不絕的人！**　　★養成這些習慣，完美預定未來的成功**　　☑ 思考明天的話題　　☑ 透過YouTube探索未知的世界　　☑ 多跟與工作無關的人見面　　☑ 透過電子郵件，提前營造會面氛圍<... ... Read more

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一流高手的晚上不同凡響！「好人脈＋好運氣＋好靈感」不會憑空出現，利用晚間時光，抓住翻轉人生的機會！本書提供45項夜間自我提升法，助你煥然一新、催生好靈感、擴展有效人脈、吸引豐盛機運，實現最終夢想！**　　★妥善運用夜晚的人，就能抓住機會**　　畢卡索、達爾文、邱吉爾、貓王……許多世界知名的優秀成功人物，都很善用夜間時光來激發靈感、累積實力。只要你願意，從現在開始，利用書中方法來度過夜晚，成為好機會源源不絕的人！**　　★養成這些習慣，完美預定未來的成功**　　☑ 思考明天的話題　　☑ 透過YouTube探索未知的世界　　☑ 多跟與工作無關的人見面　　☑ 透過電子郵件，提前營造會面氛圍<...
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Redesigning Leadership

by John Maeda, Rebecca J Bermont ...

Series series Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
Lessons for a new generation of leaders on teamwork, meetings, conversations, free food, social media, apologizing, and other topics.When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor—with a love of argument for argument's ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Lessons for a new generation of leaders on teamwork, meetings, conversations, free food, social media, apologizing, and other topics.When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor—with a love of argument for argument's
... Read more
Make It In America, Updated Edition

The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

by Andrew Liveris ...

The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEOAmerica used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over the last several decades, ... Read more

$11.00 USD

The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEOAmerica used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over the last several decades,
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The Secret Lives of Customers

A Detective Story About Solving the Mystery of Customer Behavior

by David S Duncan ...

“A page-turner that reads like a mystery” (Mark Bertolini, former chairman and CEO, Aetna) that delivers key insights to the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them?Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever before, everyone, from the CEO to salespeople in the field, struggles to understand who their customers really are, ... Read more

$16.99 USD

“A page-turner that reads like a mystery” (Mark Bertolini, former chairman and CEO, Aetna) that delivers key insights to the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them?Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever before, everyone, from the CEO to salespeople in the field, struggles to understand who their customers really are,
... Read more
Generations, Inc.

From Boomers to Linksters--Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work

by Meagan Johnson, Larry Johnson ...

Now that five different generations are on the job simultaneously--from Traditionals to Generation Y to Millennials--it's important for companies to understand how their people can not only coexist and cooperate, but thrive together as a team.Written by Meagan and Larry Johnson, a father-daughter team of two generational experts, Generations, Inc. offers the perspectives of people of different ... Read more

$6.49 USD

Now that five different generations are on the job simultaneously--from Traditionals to Generation Y to Millennials--it's important for companies to understand how their people can not only coexist and cooperate, but thrive together as a team.Written by Meagan and Larry Johnson, a father-daughter team of two generational experts, Generations, Inc. offers the perspectives of people of different
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Evolvability in Business

Enterprise Transformation in an Age of Complexity

by Zhen Goh, Sunil Mundra ...

Series series Routledge-Solaris Applied Research in Business Management and Board Governance
Through the unique combination of evolutionary biology and management theory applied to business cases, and keeping in mind that organisations are fundamentally human systems, Goh and Mundra propose organisational evolvability as a new frame to guide enterprise transformation and change.Some of the topics covered in the book include: Understanding the differences between Complicated and Complex; ... Read more

Was $49.99 USD Now $44.99 USD

Through the unique combination of evolutionary biology and management theory applied to business cases, and keeping in mind that organisations are fundamentally human systems, Goh and Mundra propose organisational evolvability as a new frame to guide enterprise transformation and change.Some of the topics covered in the book include: Understanding the differences between Complicated and Complex;
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三禧思維：亂世解決問題、活得更好的科學思考工具！

Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

by 索爾‧珀爾馬特（Saul Perlmutter）、約翰‧坎貝爾（John Campbell）、羅伯．麥考恩（Robert MacCoun） ...

Series series 人文思潮
資訊爆量時代，究竟該相信什麼？專家各說各話，我們該如何做出最有利的選擇？不同立場的人，有可能「真確」溝通並攜手合作嗎？★諾貝爾獎物理學家X史丹佛心理學家X****人氣哲學教授置身資訊量爆炸的第三個千禧年，陪你思考再進化！運用心智「黑科技」，解決當代最棘手的難題！身處多語言、多文化的世界，更有效工作、更有機會成功、產出更可靠的結果！★源自加州大學柏克萊分校超人氣課程「理性與感性與科學」，獲美國大學沿用推廣，並成為高中版課程「給所有人的科學思考工具箱」！★《逆思維》作者亞當‧葛蘭特推薦：「在充滿不確定性和兩極... ... Read more

$9.24 USD

資訊爆量時代，究竟該相信什麼？專家各說各話，我們該如何做出最有利的選擇？不同立場的人，有可能「真確」溝通並攜手合作嗎？★諾貝爾獎物理學家X史丹佛心理學家X****人氣哲學教授置身資訊量爆炸的第三個千禧年，陪你思考再進化！運用心智「黑科技」，解決當代最棘手的難題！身處多語言、多文化的世界，更有效工作、更有機會成功、產出更可靠的結果！★源自加州大學柏克萊分校超人氣課程「理性與感性與科學」，獲美國大學沿用推廣，並成為高中版課程「給所有人的科學思考工具箱」！★《逆思維》作者亞當‧葛蘭特推薦：「在充滿不確定性和兩極...
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Practice Game Theory

by Albert Rutherford ...

Advanced strategic decision-making tools for everyday life.Should one enter a market where someone is in a monopoly position? When is going to the ER a good or a bad decision? Why is it never a good idea for rebels to concede? Practice Game Theory answers all these questions. Think about and solve problems more effectively applying strategic games models to real-life challenges.Learn how top world ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Advanced strategic decision-making tools for everyday life.Should one enter a market where someone is in a monopoly position? When is going to the ER a good or a bad decision? Why is it never a good idea for rebels to concede? Practice Game Theory answers all these questions. Think about and solve problems more effectively applying strategic games models to real-life challenges.Learn how top world
... Read more
Supply Chain Risk Management

Vulnerability and Resilience in Logistics

by Donald Waters ...

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today. The challenge for businesses today is to mitigate this risk through creating resilient supply chains.Addressing this need, ***Supply Chain Risk Management***guides you through the whole risk management process from start to finish. Using jargon-free language, this accessible book covers the ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today. The challenge for businesses today is to mitigate this risk through creating resilient supply chains.Addressing this need, ***Supply Chain Risk Management***guides you through the whole risk management process from start to finish. Using jargon-free language, this accessible book covers the
... Read more
The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear

Valuable Lessons, True Stories, and Tips For Using What You've Got (A Brain!) to Make Your Worklife Work for You

by Caitlin Friedman, Kimberly Yorio ...

Be the girl who makes it happen!Guess what? If you’re not looking out for your career then nobody is. If you want to be both passionate about what you do and successful, then you must take control of your professional destiny. Only you can determine who you are, what you can do, and where you want to go. If you are stuck in your career, frustrated at your position within a company, or bored with ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Be the girl who makes it happen!Guess what? If you’re not looking out for your career then nobody is. If you want to be both passionate about what you do and successful, then you must take control of your professional destiny. Only you can determine who you are, what you can do, and where you want to go. If you are stuck in your career, frustrated at your position within a company, or bored with
... Read more
Real-Time Leadership

Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High

by David Noble, Carol Kauffman ...

The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, respond in the most effective way possible, and move forward. You can, too.The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will face. Whether you're making a split-second decision when your business is knocked sideways or you're finding the best strategy to navigate business ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, respond in the most effective way possible, and move forward. You can, too.The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will face. Whether you're making a split-second decision when your business is knocked sideways or you're finding the best strategy to navigate business
... Read more
The CEO Test

Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders

by Adam Bryant, Kevin Sharer ...

Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Leadership categoryAre you ready to lead? Will you pass the test?Despite all the effort through the years to understand what it takes to be an effective leader, the challenges of leadership remain enormously difficult and elusive; even today, most CEOs don't last five years in the job. The demands to deliver at a ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Leadership categoryAre you ready to lead? Will you pass the test?Despite all the effort through the years to understand what it takes to be an effective leader, the challenges of leadership remain enormously difficult and elusive; even today, most CEOs don't last five years in the job. The demands to deliver at a
... Read more
Beyond Reengineering

How the Process-Centered Organization Will Change Our Work and Our Lives

by Michael Hammer ...

Reengineering has captured the imagination of managers and shareholders alike, sending corporations on journeys of radical business redesign that have already begun to transfigure global industry. Yet aside from earning them improvements in their business performance, the shift into more-process-centered organizations is causing fundamental changes in the corporate world, changes that business ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Reengineering has captured the imagination of managers and shareholders alike, sending corporations on journeys of radical business redesign that have already begun to transfigure global industry. Yet aside from earning them improvements in their business performance, the shift into more-process-centered organizations is causing fundamental changes in the corporate world, changes that business
... Read more
How the Wise Decide

The Lessons of 21 Extraordinary Leaders

by Aaron Sandoski, Bryn Zeckhauser ...

Discover the formula used by twenty-one of the world’s most extraordinary leaders to make consistent and smart decisions.How do the wise decide and lead businesses and organizations to great success is the question Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski posed to themselves after landing their first jobs as managers. Despite the best training the world could offer—Harvard MBAs and stints at McKinsey & ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Discover the formula used by twenty-one of the world’s most extraordinary leaders to make consistent and smart decisions.How do the wise decide and lead businesses and organizations to great success is the question Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski posed to themselves after landing their first jobs as managers. Despite the best training the world could offer—Harvard MBAs and stints at McKinsey &
... Read more
Inside Jobs

Why Insider Risk Is the Biggest Cyber Threat You Can't Ignore

by Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, Mark Wojtasiak ...

From data security company Code42, Inside Jobs offers companies of all sizes a new way to secure today’s collaborative cultures—one that works without compromising sensitive company data or slowing business down. Authors Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, and Mark Wojtasiak, seasoned veterans in the cybersecurity space, provide a top-down and bottom-up picture of the rewards and perils involved in running ... Read more

$16.99 USD

From data security company Code42, Inside Jobs offers companies of all sizes a new way to secure today’s collaborative cultures—one that works without compromising sensitive company data or slowing business down. Authors Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, and Mark Wojtasiak, seasoned veterans in the cybersecurity space, provide a top-down and bottom-up picture of the rewards and perils involved in running
... Read more
Simply Managing

What Managers Do — and Can Do Better

by Henry Mintzberg ...

The Essence of Managing Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text. The essence of the book remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing considers the ... Read more

$15.99 USD

The Essence of Managing Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text. The essence of the book remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing considers the
... Read more
Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

by Peter Franz, Mathias Kirchmer ...

Seize the competitive advantage with BPM at the heart of your strategyValue-Driven Business Process Management provides the rationale and methods for using business Process Management (BPM) to gain clarity on how your business operates and develop the ability to put new ideas into action quickly. You learn how to redirect your focus from a "method-and-tool" view of BPM to a more broadly informed ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Seize the competitive advantage with BPM at the heart of your strategyValue-Driven Business Process Management provides the rationale and methods for using business Process Management (BPM) to gain clarity on how your business operates and develop the ability to put new ideas into action quickly. You learn how to redirect your focus from a "method-and-tool" view of BPM to a more broadly informed
... Read more
Six Sigma Statistics with EXCEL and MINITAB

by Issa Bass ...

Master the Statistical Techniques for Six Sigma Operations, While Boosting Your Excel and Minitab Skills!Now with the help of this “one-stop” resource, operations and production managers can learn all the powerful statistical techniques for Six Sigma operations, while becoming proficient at Excel and Minitab at the same time.Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab offers a complete guide to ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Master the Statistical Techniques for Six Sigma Operations, While Boosting Your Excel and Minitab Skills!Now with the help of this “one-stop” resource, operations and production managers can learn all the powerful statistical techniques for Six Sigma operations, while becoming proficient at Excel and Minitab at the same time.Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab offers a complete guide to
... Read more
Hunch

Turn Your Everyday Insights Into The Next Big Thing

by Bernadette Jiwa ...

Where will your next big idea come from?Analyzing hard data? A corporate brainstorming session? Customer focus groups? Or closer to home?Successful people don’t wait for proof that their idea will work. They learn to trust their gut and go.In Hunch, international bestselling author and business adviser Bernadette Jiwa shows you how to harness the power of your intuition so you can recognize ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Where will your next big idea come from?Analyzing hard data? A corporate brainstorming session? Customer focus groups? Or closer to home?Successful people don’t wait for proof that their idea will work. They learn to trust their gut and go.In Hunch, international bestselling author and business adviser Bernadette Jiwa shows you how to harness the power of your intuition so you can recognize
... Read more
Competition is Killing Us

How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

by Michelle Meagher ...

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it.In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new ... Read more

$18.79 USD

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it.In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new
... Read more
Building High Performance Government Through Lean Six Sigma: A Leader's Guide to Creating Speed, Agility, and Efficiency

by Mark Price,Walter Mores,Hundley M. Elliotte ...

Your handbook to successful LSS deployment in federal services Implementing Lean Six Sigma in a federal agency can be a vastly different process than applying it in the private sector; with government comes a host of unique challenges and complexities. Written by an author team that ranks among the few recognized LSS leaders who have worked directly with its deployment in the federal sector, Lean ... Read more

$19.49 USD

Your handbook to successful LSS deployment in federal services Implementing Lean Six Sigma in a federal agency can be a vastly different process than applying it in the private sector; with government comes a host of unique challenges and complexities. Written by an author team that ranks among the few recognized LSS leaders who have worked directly with its deployment in the federal sector, Lean
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Diaminds

Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers

by Mihnea Moldoveanu, Roger L. Martin ...

Series series Rotman-UTP Publishing
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon case studies and interviews - as well as theories and ... Read more

$29.99 USD

What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon case studies and interviews - as well as theories and
... Read more

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