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

Judgment Calls

Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right

by Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport ...

Your guide to making better decisionsDespite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today-and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions-many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights.In Judgment Calls, ... Read more

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Your guide to making better decisionsDespite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today-and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions-many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights.In Judgment Calls,
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Team Habits

How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results

by Charlie Gilkey ...

**Discover small, team-based changes that have company-wide results in this lifechanging book by the author of Start Finishing."This is the modern business handbook that should sit on everyone’s desk." ―Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and The Widest Net**The teams we work with amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**Discover small, team-based changes that have company-wide results in this lifechanging book by the author of Start Finishing."This is the modern business handbook that should sit on everyone’s desk." ―Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and The Widest Net**The teams we work with amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the
... Read more
The Leader’s Secret Code

The belief systems that distinguish winners

by Ian Mills, Mark Ridley, Ben Laker, Adam Pacifico ...

What makes a great leader? What beliefs, attitudes and behaviours are linked to being a top performing and influential leader, especially in these uncertain times? What impact does culture, industry and business context have? And do formal training and education make a difference?This book is for any business manager or executive, or indeed anyone involved in leading a team in their company, who ... Read more

$13.41 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

What makes a great leader? What beliefs, attitudes and behaviours are linked to being a top performing and influential leader, especially in these uncertain times? What impact does culture, industry and business context have? And do formal training and education make a difference?This book is for any business manager or executive, or indeed anyone involved in leading a team in their company, who
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Appreciative Intelligence

Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn

by Tojo Thatchenkery, Carol Metzker ...

"Provocative . . . reveals the ability behind exciting and unexpected innovations, turnarounds, or accomplishments that were once considered impossible." — W. Warner Burke, Edward L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityAppreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Provocative . . . reveals the ability behind exciting and unexpected innovations, turnarounds, or accomplishments that were once considered impossible." — W. Warner Burke, Edward L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityAppreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative
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Making Big Decisions Better

How to Set and Simplify Business Strategy

by Tim Lewko ...

Making Big Decisions Better is leading a global movement to equip present and next generation leaders with proven strategy tools that enable agile thinking that ignites stronger, more predictable, direct paths to profit.No more academic theories. These are real tools and a system that enables improved strategic thinking and leadership.This book bridges an unspoken gap in strategy thinking that ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Making Big Decisions Better is leading a global movement to equip present and next generation leaders with proven strategy tools that enable agile thinking that ignites stronger, more predictable, direct paths to profit.No more academic theories. These are real tools and a system that enables improved strategic thinking and leadership.This book bridges an unspoken gap in strategy thinking that
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The Transformative CEO: IMPACT LESSONS FROM INDUSTRY GAME CHANGERS

by Jeffrey J. Fox, Robert Reiss ...

Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest CEOs“Fox and Reiss have created a new leadership category—The Transformative CEO.”—Rafael Pastor, CEO, Vistage InternationalBestselling author Jeffrey Fox literally wrote the book on How to Become CEO, and radio talk show host Robert Reiss has explored strategy with some of the world’s biggest business legends.Now, in The Transformative CEO, they have ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest CEOs“Fox and Reiss have created a new leadership category—The Transformative CEO.”—Rafael Pastor, CEO, Vistage InternationalBestselling author Jeffrey Fox literally wrote the book on How to Become CEO, and radio talk show host Robert Reiss has explored strategy with some of the world’s biggest business legends.Now, in The Transformative CEO, they have
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The Business Analyst as Strategist

Translating Business Strategies into Valuable Solutions

by Kathleen B. Hass PMP ...

An organization's ability to achieve strategic goals through programs and supporting projects depends on its ability to establish a future vision, set strategic goals, select the most valuable projects, and then execute flawlessly. Organizational strategic alignmentis achieved by converting strategic plans and goals into a valuable portfolio of programs and supporting projects. Strategic project ... Read more

$26.69 USD

An organization's ability to achieve strategic goals through programs and supporting projects depends on its ability to establish a future vision, set strategic goals, select the most valuable projects, and then execute flawlessly. Organizational strategic alignmentis achieved by converting strategic plans and goals into a valuable portfolio of programs and supporting projects. Strategic project
... Read more
Social Entrepreneurship

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by David Bornstein, Susan Davis ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, ... Read more

$10.49 USD

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World,
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It's What You Set In Motion

A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking

by Greg Van Kirk ...

It’s What You Set in Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking is a how-to resource for aspiring and practicing changemakers everywhere. Use this hands-on, one-of-a-kind, all-in-one toolbox to build and enhance essential twenty-first century skill sets: empathy, adaptive leadership, collaborative problem-solving, teamwork, community engagement, innovation design, entrepreneurship, global ... Read more

$8.99 USD

It’s What You Set in Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking is a how-to resource for aspiring and practicing changemakers everywhere. Use this hands-on, one-of-a-kind, all-in-one toolbox to build and enhance essential twenty-first century skill sets: empathy, adaptive leadership, collaborative problem-solving, teamwork, community engagement, innovation design, entrepreneurship, global
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The Growth Advantage

A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Edge

by Bob Lisser ...

Provides a blueprint for your company’s sustained and profitable growth.Let’s face it: sustained business growth doesn’t just happen. Growth must be planned for and executed, cultivated from a strategic standpoint and applied tactically at the frontline, led by the right people, and focused on the right objectives. The Growth Advantage provides a blueprint for sustained and profitable growth for ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Provides a blueprint for your company’s sustained and profitable growth.Let’s face it: sustained business growth doesn’t just happen. Growth must be planned for and executed, cultivated from a strategic standpoint and applied tactically at the frontline, led by the right people, and focused on the right objectives. The Growth Advantage provides a blueprint for sustained and profitable growth for
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Investigating Performance

Design and Outcomes With Xapi

by Sean Putman, Janet Laane Effron ...

Through conversations with Learning & Development professionals about the need for better data, it’s become clear that good design is not only about designing for data, but also designing from data. Investigating Performance comprehensively looks at designing to get valuable data needed to understand both course and user performance via data collection and analytics. The authors present tools and ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Through conversations with Learning & Development professionals about the need for better data, it’s become clear that good design is not only about designing for data, but also designing from data. Investigating Performance comprehensively looks at designing to get valuable data needed to understand both course and user performance via data collection and analytics. The authors present tools and
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Formulation of Functional Level Strategy

by Hiriyappa B ...

Formulation of Functional Level Strategy offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises formulate marketing, financial, production, logistics and human resources strategy. This book is specially designed for those who are the students of Business, MBA, PGDM & Executives. IT management, middle-level managers across the management consultant and business executives seeking to ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Formulation of Functional Level Strategy offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises formulate marketing, financial, production, logistics and human resources strategy. This book is specially designed for those who are the students of Business, MBA, PGDM & Executives. IT management, middle-level managers across the management consultant and business executives seeking to
... Read more
Praxis Framework: An integrated guide to the management of projects, programmes and portfolios

by Adrian Dooley ...

An integrated guide to the management of projects, programmes and portfolios ... Read more

$54.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An integrated guide to the management of projects, programmes and portfolios
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Solvable

by Arnaud Chevallier, Albrecht Enders ...

A 3-step process for solving complex problems of any kind: Frame, Ideate, Decide.Solvable offers practical tools that are both evidence-based and presented in an accessible and visual way to help you improve all aspects of problem solving at work and home. ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A 3-step process for solving complex problems of any kind: Frame, Ideate, Decide.Solvable offers practical tools that are both evidence-based and presented in an accessible and visual way to help you improve all aspects of problem solving at work and home.
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Metronomics

One United System to Grow Up Your Team, Company, and Life

by Shannon Susko ...

As a business leader, you've read dozens of books by the top thought leaders, learning from their research, principles, and tools. Each book dives deep into a specific area of expertise-strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership. All share powerful concepts on what to do to grow your business. But how do you efficiently unite these tools into a regimen that works for not just one ... Read more

$9.99 USD

As a business leader, you've read dozens of books by the top thought leaders, learning from their research, principles, and tools. Each book dives deep into a specific area of expertise-strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership. All share powerful concepts on what to do to grow your business. But how do you efficiently unite these tools into a regimen that works for not just one
... Read more
The Importance of Small Decisions

by Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley, William A. Brock ...

Series series Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small ... Read more

$14.99 USD

How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small
... Read more
Agile by Design

An Implementation Guide to Analytic Lifecycle Management

by Rachel Alt-Simmons ...

Series series Wiley and SAS Business Series
Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle managementAgile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. You will explore, in-depth, what analytics projects are and why they are set apart from traditional development initiatives. Beyond ... Read more

$31.00 USD

Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle managementAgile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. You will explore, in-depth, what analytics projects are and why they are set apart from traditional development initiatives. Beyond
... Read more
The Imagination Machine

How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future

by Martin Reeves, Jack Fuller ...

In this fascinating and practical guide, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller break down the science of imagination and offer tools, tactics, games, and strategies for helping teams and organizations expand the art of the possible.A six-step process for increasing imagination. A how-to book, through and through.Fascinating learnings from the fields from neuroscience, computer science, evolution, ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this fascinating and practical guide, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller break down the science of imagination and offer tools, tactics, games, and strategies for helping teams and organizations expand the art of the possible.A six-step process for increasing imagination. A how-to book, through and through.Fascinating learnings from the fields from neuroscience, computer science, evolution,
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Common Sense

The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth

by Joel Greenblatt ...

The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn’t take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to the forefront of problems we desperately need to solve. But now that the opportunity is here, what should we do? How can we create more equality, opportunity, and growth for everyone? Not someday, but what can government ... Read more

$13.99 USD

The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn’t take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to the forefront of problems we desperately need to solve. But now that the opportunity is here, what should we do? How can we create more equality, opportunity, and growth for everyone? Not someday, but what can government
... Read more
Product at a Distance

Innovation in the Era of Distributed Teams

by Dave Scott ...

The missing playbook for envisioning and building great products, regardless of where your team sits.Every product team needs a destination before it needs directions. When teams are distributed across time zones and continents, agreeing on that destination-and keeping everyone navigating toward it-is where most organizations miss the mark.Product at a Distance is the GPS modern distributed ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The missing playbook for envisioning and building great products, regardless of where your team sits.Every product team needs a destination before it needs directions. When teams are distributed across time zones and continents, agreeing on that destination-and keeping everyone navigating toward it-is where most organizations miss the mark.Product at a Distance is the GPS modern distributed
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Die Kunst des Krieges

Wahrhaft siegt, wer nicht kämpft

by Sun Tsu ...

Sun Tsus Werk ist ein zeitloser Klassiker der Strategie-Literatur, den jeder kennen sollte. | Psychologische Führung aller Beteiligten, Flexibilität und Taktik gegenüber dem Gegner, äußerste Disziplin in den eigenen Reihen - das sind Prinzipien, die allgemeingültig sind und nicht nur in der Armee, sondern in allen Organisationen, ja sogar im persönlichen Leben und in der Mann-Frau-Beziehung von ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sun Tsus Werk ist ein zeitloser Klassiker der Strategie-Literatur, den jeder kennen sollte. | Psychologische Führung aller Beteiligten, Flexibilität und Taktik gegenüber dem Gegner, äußerste Disziplin in den eigenen Reihen - das sind Prinzipien, die allgemeingültig sind und nicht nur in der Armee, sondern in allen Organisationen, ja sogar im persönlichen Leben und in der Mann-Frau-Beziehung von
... Read more
Done Right: How Tomorrow's Top Leaders Get Stuff Done

by Alex Shootman ...

Work is getting whipsawed. Teams are geographically distributed, digital strategies are shattering organizational hierarchies, competition is multi-directional, and digital natives are overturning long-time company norms. Modern work needs new masters to rise up and lead.Done Right pulls from over thirty original interviews with experienced leaders across a variety of industries to show how ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Work is getting whipsawed. Teams are geographically distributed, digital strategies are shattering organizational hierarchies, competition is multi-directional, and digital natives are overturning long-time company norms. Modern work needs new masters to rise up and lead.Done Right pulls from over thirty original interviews with experienced leaders across a variety of industries to show how
... Read more
How to Expect the Unexpected

The Science of Making Predictions—and the Art of Knowing When Not To

by Kit Yates ...

A “vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide” (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding how and why predictions go wrong, with practical tips to give you a better chance of getting them rightHow can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A “vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide” (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding how and why predictions go wrong, with practical tips to give you a better chance of getting them rightHow can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever
... Read more
The Change Agent’s Field Guide

Mastering the Intersections of Change Management and Continuous Improvement

by Kyle Bradley Stone ...

While there are many books specific to change management or continuous improvement, there are few, if any, books that address the intersections between change management and continuous improvement. After 30+ years as a change agent implementing lean and process improvement, the author’s hypothesis on why continuous improvement efforts “stick” sometimes and other times not is that many leaders of ... Read more

$55.99 USD

While there are many books specific to change management or continuous improvement, there are few, if any, books that address the intersections between change management and continuous improvement. After 30+ years as a change agent implementing lean and process improvement, the author’s hypothesis on why continuous improvement efforts “stick” sometimes and other times not is that many leaders of
... Read more

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