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

Conceptual Blockbusting

A Guide to Better Ideas, Fifth Edition

by James L. Adams ...

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic on creativity, essential for individuals and teams who want to think outside the box.Some people are naturally creative and others aren't, right? Wrong. In this classic book on creativity, James Adams takes a unique approach to generating ideas and solving problems that has captivated, inspired, and guided thousands of people from all walks of life to ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic on creativity, essential for individuals and teams who want to think outside the box.Some people are naturally creative and others aren't, right? Wrong. In this classic book on creativity, James Adams takes a unique approach to generating ideas and solving problems that has captivated, inspired, and guided thousands of people from all walks of life to
... Read more
Managing Corporate Design

Best Practices for In-House Graphic Design Departments

by Peter L. Phillips ...

Corporations increasingly view graphic design as a core strategic business competency in a highly competitive climate, and they are challenging their in-house designers to supply far more than a service or support function. Their new role is to provide sound solutions to real-world business pressures. Managing Corporate Design addresses-head-on-these new challenges in a highly practical manner ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Corporations increasingly view graphic design as a core strategic business competency in a highly competitive climate, and they are challenging their in-house designers to supply far more than a service or support function. Their new role is to provide sound solutions to real-world business pressures. Managing Corporate Design addresses-head-on-these new challenges in a highly practical manner
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DK Essential Managers: Managing Change

by Robert Heller ...

Series series DK Essential Managers
Learn all you need to know about adapting to change, from initiating modifications to responding positively to them. Turn and face the strange features of your new business environment with this efficient how-to guide. Managing Change enables you to understand and plan for change to achieve the best results, plus it provides practical techniques for you to try in different settings. Whether you ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Learn all you need to know about adapting to change, from initiating modifications to responding positively to them. Turn and face the strange features of your new business environment with this efficient how-to guide. Managing Change enables you to understand and plan for change to achieve the best results, plus it provides practical techniques for you to try in different settings. Whether you
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The Six Sigma Way: How to Maximize the Impact of Your Change and Improvement Efforts, Second edition

by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland Cavanagh ...

The Definitive Work on Six Sigma—Revised and Fully UpdatedUpon its publication in 2000, The Six Sigma Way was among the very first books to clearly explain the impressive benefits of Six Sigma’s improvement-driven and customer-centric approach to business leaders and managers. It revealed how GE, Motorola, and other companies used Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance, ... Read more

$41.99 USD

The Definitive Work on Six Sigma—Revised and Fully UpdatedUpon its publication in 2000, The Six Sigma Way was among the very first books to clearly explain the impressive benefits of Six Sigma’s improvement-driven and customer-centric approach to business leaders and managers. It revealed how GE, Motorola, and other companies used Six Sigma to fine-tune products and processes, improve performance,
... Read more
The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses

Creative, Innovative and Cost-Saving Ideas from Great Business Minds

by Ray Silverstein ...

Do you have a problem you've never faced before? Are you looking for an idea that will be your next big breakthrough? You are not alone. Every day, thousands of entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to business problems. The best of the best are here, in one of the most useful business guides to date.The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses is the ultimate entrepreneurial guidebook. It ... Read more

$11.59 USD

Do you have a problem you've never faced before? Are you looking for an idea that will be your next big breakthrough? You are not alone. Every day, thousands of entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to business problems. The best of the best are here, in one of the most useful business guides to date.The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses is the ultimate entrepreneurial guidebook. It
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Dealstorming

The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges

by Tim Sanders ...

Sales genius is a team sport.As a B2B sales leader, you know that by Murphy’s Law, despite your team's best efforts, some deals will inevitably get stuck or key relationships will go sour. And too often, it's the most important ones—the last thing you need when millions of dollars are on the line."Dealstorming" is Tim Sanders’s term for a structured, scalable, repeatable process that can break ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Sales genius is a team sport.As a B2B sales leader, you know that by Murphy’s Law, despite your team's best efforts, some deals will inevitably get stuck or key relationships will go sour. And too often, it's the most important ones—the last thing you need when millions of dollars are on the line."Dealstorming" is Tim Sanders’s term for a structured, scalable, repeatable process that can break
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The Innovator's Method

Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization

by Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer ...

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you ... Read more

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Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you
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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

$10.99 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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Leaders: Born or Baked?

by Noel Dhiraj, Ahtal Nair, Shyamjith Sasidharan, Ashwin Baskar, Manoj Sharma ...

We are Muffin Eaters! Why that name you may ask? Well, all five of us (Ahtal, Ashwin, Manoj, Noel and Shyam) love eating muffins, and for the record, Tim Horton's muffins are the best so far.On to EPM 4173.You may be wondering what does that stand for. Well, it is the second-last course of our third semester at Lambton College In Toronto where we are students of the Advanced Project Management and ... Read more

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We are Muffin Eaters! Why that name you may ask? Well, all five of us (Ahtal, Ashwin, Manoj, Noel and Shyam) love eating muffins, and for the record, Tim Horton's muffins are the best so far.On to EPM 4173.You may be wondering what does that stand for. Well, it is the second-last course of our third semester at Lambton College In Toronto where we are students of the Advanced Project Management and
... Read more
人生升級的晨間習慣：50個「創造成果」的早晨管理技巧

結果を出し続けている人が朝やること

by 後藤勇人 ...

Translated by 林佑純 ...

Series series 富能量
一流人物的早上與眾不同！「好情緒＋好成績＋好團隊」不會憑空出現，利用晨活，讓所有逆境成為你的助力，創造源源不絕的成果！當太陽升起，你希望擁有什麼樣的一天？書中根據「被窩裡、下床後、晨浴時、出門前、通勤時、上工前」，蒐羅50項晨間處方，只要每天從中挑一項，花一分鐘執行，即可開啟心想事成的一天！**　　★征服早上的人，亦能得到致勝人生**　　巴菲特、比爾蓋茲、提姆庫克、歐普拉、村上春樹……很多世界知名企業家或成功人士，都擅長運用晨間時光培養底氣。　　但只要你願意，就能從現在開始，利用書中的方法，成為善用起床後時間，不斷拿出成果的人！**　　★養成這些習慣... ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

一流人物的早上與眾不同！「好情緒＋好成績＋好團隊」不會憑空出現，利用晨活，讓所有逆境成為你的助力，創造源源不絕的成果！當太陽升起，你希望擁有什麼樣的一天？書中根據「被窩裡、下床後、晨浴時、出門前、通勤時、上工前」，蒐羅50項晨間處方，只要每天從中挑一項，花一分鐘執行，即可開啟心想事成的一天！**　　★征服早上的人，亦能得到致勝人生**　　巴菲特、比爾蓋茲、提姆庫克、歐普拉、村上春樹……很多世界知名企業家或成功人士，都擅長運用晨間時光培養底氣。　　但只要你願意，就能從現在開始，利用書中的方法，成為善用起床後時間，不斷拿出成果的人！**　　★養成這些習慣...
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Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality

by James Adams ...

What is the secret behind every successful product? Why are people willing to pay more for a BMW than a Chevrolet? How could Apple iPhones represent only 4% of the world’s cell phone market in 2011 but take in 50% of the profits? The answer is quality.In this provocative new book, bestselling author James L. Adams provides a brilliant, in-depth look at the powerful but elusive qualities that can ... Read more

$19.99 USD

What is the secret behind every successful product? Why are people willing to pay more for a BMW than a Chevrolet? How could Apple iPhones represent only 4% of the world’s cell phone market in 2011 but take in 50% of the profits? The answer is quality.In this provocative new book, bestselling author James L. Adams provides a brilliant, in-depth look at the powerful but elusive qualities that can
... Read more
Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It

by Shantanu Nundy ...

A practical action plan for reinventing healthcare in a post-pandemic world—from a physician-entrepreneur who works with Fortune 500 companies.If the healthcare system were an emperor, Covid-19 tragically revealed that it had no clothes. Healthcare had to adapt, and quickly―sparking a dramatic acceleration of virtual care, drive-through testing, and home-based services. In the process, old rules ... Read more

$20.79 USD

A practical action plan for reinventing healthcare in a post-pandemic world—from a physician-entrepreneur who works with Fortune 500 companies.If the healthcare system were an emperor, Covid-19 tragically revealed that it had no clothes. Healthcare had to adapt, and quickly―sparking a dramatic acceleration of virtual care, drive-through testing, and home-based services. In the process, old rules
... Read more
Speed Kills: Leveraging John Boyd's OODA Loop to Build Organizations That Win

by Alex Vohr ...

Most leaders don't struggle with making decisions. They struggle with making them fast enough to matter.In today's world of AI disruption, global competition, and relentless change, slow processes and overanalysis can cripple even the strongest teams. The cost of delay is real: decision paralysis, wasted effort, and the nagging sense that faster competitors are pulling ahead.Speed Kills introduces ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Most leaders don't struggle with making decisions. They struggle with making them fast enough to matter.In today's world of AI disruption, global competition, and relentless change, slow processes and overanalysis can cripple even the strongest teams. The cost of delay is real: decision paralysis, wasted effort, and the nagging sense that faster competitors are pulling ahead.Speed Kills introduces
... Read more
What Business Should I Start?

7 Steps to Discovering the Ideal Business for You

by Rhonda Abrams ...

Want to start your own business, but aren't sure which one to start? Want to find a business that's right for you—for your interests, skills, and goals—that will also be successful?America's foremost small-business advice guru Rhonda Abrams offers readers seven steps to identifying the right business for them, from determining their entrepreneurial type with the E-Type™ test, to exploring a wide ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Want to start your own business, but aren't sure which one to start? Want to find a business that's right for you—for your interests, skills, and goals—that will also be successful?America's foremost small-business advice guru Rhonda Abrams offers readers seven steps to identifying the right business for them, from determining their entrepreneurial type with the E-Type™ test, to exploring a wide
... Read more
The Connected Company

by Dave Gray, Thomas Vander Wal ...

With a foreword by Alex Osterwalder.The future of work is already here.Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But when your company’s performance runs short of what you’ve promised, customers can seize control of your brand message, spreading their ... Read more

$18.99 USD

With a foreword by Alex Osterwalder.The future of work is already here.Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But when your company’s performance runs short of what you’ve promised, customers can seize control of your brand message, spreading their
... Read more
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

International Case Studies and Practice

Edited by Ken Banks ...

Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often
... Read more
Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking

by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, Peter Klein ...

The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization’s DNA to drive sustainable growthIn today’s ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization’s DNA to drive sustainable growthIn today’s ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture
... Read more
The Resilient Enterprise

Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage

by Yossi Sheffi ...

Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a
... Read more
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
Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

by Martin Cohen ...

Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgmentsThe ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and ... Read more

$12.00 USD

Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgmentsThe ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and
... 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
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

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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The Grid

The Decision-making Tool for Every Business (Including Yours)

by Matt Watkinson ...

____________________This ground-breaking book from award-winning author MATT WATKINSON reveals the fundamental, inseparable elements behind the success of every business.The Grid provides the mental scaffolding to help you:· Evaluate and refine product and service ideas· Reduce risk by considering the broader impact of strategic decisions· Iden... ... Read more

$13.99 USD

____________________This ground-breaking book from award-winning author MATT WATKINSON reveals the fundamental, inseparable elements behind the success of every business.The Grid provides the mental scaffolding to help you:· Evaluate and refine product and service ideas· Reduce risk by considering the broader impact of strategic decisions· Iden...
... Read more
Dare to Un-Lead

The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World

by Celine Schillinger ...

2022 PORCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY BOOK OF THE YEARA transformational book for trying times, Dare to Un-Lead will challenge the way you think and feel about the role of leadership in your life.What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors and systems evolved from the centuries-old industrial theories popularized by Frederick Taylor and ... Read more

$13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

2022 PORCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY BOOK OF THE YEARA transformational book for trying times, Dare to Un-Lead will challenge the way you think and feel about the role of leadership in your life.What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors and systems evolved from the centuries-old industrial theories popularized by Frederick Taylor and
... Read more

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