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

Dialogic Organization Development

The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change

Edited by Gervase R. Bushe, Robert J. Marshak ...

A Dynamic New Approach to Organizational ChangeDialogic Organization Development is a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change. Organizations are seen as fluid, socially constructed realities that are continuously created through conversations and images. Leaders and consultants can help foster change by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of ... Read more

$55.99 USD

A Dynamic New Approach to Organizational ChangeDialogic Organization Development is a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change. Organizations are seen as fluid, socially constructed realities that are continuously created through conversations and images. Leaders and consultants can help foster change by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of
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Problem Solving

Guidebook for ADB-Assisted Projects

by Asian Development Bank ...

This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered in projects. The value of the OSPF approach to problem solving is recognized in resolving community ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered in projects. The value of the OSPF approach to problem solving is recognized in resolving community
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Generative Collaboration

Releasing the Creative Power of Collective Intelligence

by Robert Brian Dilts ...

Series Book 2 - Success Factor Modeling
Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective
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Renew Where You Are: How to Diagnose a Stalled Job, Test What Can Change, and Know When to Leave

by Casey M. Bennett ...

When work stops feeling like progress, quitting and enduring are not your only choices.You may be underused, overloaded, poorly managed, blocked by the organization, or moving toward a career that no longer fits. From inside a stalled job, those explanations can feel identical—and an immediate exit may be constrained by income, benefits, family, immigration status, timing, or the labor market ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

When work stops feeling like progress, quitting and enduring are not your only choices.You may be underused, overloaded, poorly managed, blocked by the organization, or moving toward a career that no longer fits. From inside a stalled job, those explanations can feel identical—and an immediate exit may be constrained by income, benefits, family, immigration status, timing, or the labor market
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Collaborate or Perish!

Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World

by William Bratton, Zachary Tumin ...

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and groups who can collaborate, Bratton and Tumin argue ... Read more

$15.99 USD

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and groups who can collaborate, Bratton and Tumin argue
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IT Governance

How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

by Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross ...

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and ... Read more

$28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and
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Self Control: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter

by ALLAN DAVIDSON ...

FIND OUT: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.In this book “SELF-CONTROL: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

FIND OUT: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.In this book “SELF-CONTROL: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain
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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)

A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H

by Roger Von Oech ...

"You can't step in the same river twice.""Dogs bark at what they don't understand.""The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever.In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't ... Read more

$13.99 USD

"You can't step in the same river twice.""Dogs bark at what they don't understand.""The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever.In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't
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意圖韌性：終止拖延萎靡的神奇之鑰！激活動機潛能，個人與團隊目標皆高效實現的強大心理力量

Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers

by 麥克．詹姆斯·羅斯、塞庫爾．斯克爾．克拉斯特夫博士、丹恩．皮拉特 ...

Translated by 謝慈 ...

Series series GC標竿學院
無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等 ... Read more

$10.99 USD

無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等
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The Patient Priority: Solve Health Care's Value Crisis by Measuring and Delivering Outcomes That Matter to Patients

by Stefan Larsson, Jennifer Clawson, Josh Kellar ...

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as ... Read more

$23.99 USD

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as
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Practice Standard for Scheduling - Third Edition

by Project Management Institute ...

Master project scheduling with industry-leading standards. This third edition of the Practice Standard for Scheduling delivers the latest, good practices for effective project scheduling. Aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, it expands on project schedule management, helping practitioners create and maintain robust schedule models.Learn to identify the elements of a sound schedule model and its benefits ... Read more

$62.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master project scheduling with industry-leading standards. This third edition of the Practice Standard for Scheduling delivers the latest, good practices for effective project scheduling. Aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, it expands on project schedule management, helping practitioners create and maintain robust schedule models.Learn to identify the elements of a sound schedule model and its benefits
... Read more
Smarter Collaboration

A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work

by Heidi K. Gardner, Ivan A. Matviak ...

We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex world—we need to collaborate smarter.Market volatility. Sustainability demands. Hybrid working. Opportunities and hazards of fast-changing technology and regulations. Companies and nonprofits face more daunting challenges than ever. How can we collaborate in our organizations—and with outside partners—to solve problems, innovate, and ... Read more

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex world—we need to collaborate smarter.Market volatility. Sustainability demands. Hybrid working. Opportunities and hazards of fast-changing technology and regulations. Companies and nonprofits face more daunting challenges than ever. How can we collaborate in our organizations—and with outside partners—to solve problems, innovate, and
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A Joosr Guide to… Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

by Joosr ...

In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Our lives could be improved if we stopped making poor ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Our lives could be improved if we stopped making poor
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Finding Clarity

How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives

by Marc Lesser ...

A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESSFor Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability — a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.• working with and through difficult ... Read more

$11.59 USD

A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESSFor Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability — a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.• working with and through difficult
... Read more
The Decisive Mind

The ultimate smart thinking guide to making the right choice every time, for fans of THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY

by Dr Sheheryar Banuri ...

The new life-changing guide to optimising your decision-making - in your work, in your relationships, and in day-to-day life - by a leading behavioural economist. Perfect for fans of Clear Thinking and The Intelligence TrapHave you ever set yourself a goal but struggled to achieve it?In a world overflowing with choices and distractions, indecision can be paralysing. It can lead to missed ... Read more

$3.99 USD

The new life-changing guide to optimising your decision-making - in your work, in your relationships, and in day-to-day life - by a leading behavioural economist. Perfect for fans of Clear Thinking and The Intelligence TrapHave you ever set yourself a goal but struggled to achieve it?In a world overflowing with choices and distractions, indecision can be paralysing. It can lead to missed
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Business Model Book, The

Design, Build And Adapt Business Ideas That Drive Business Growth

by Adam Bock ...

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of
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The Interviewer's Book

Hiring the Right Person

by Mary Hanson, Brian McIvor ...

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a ... Read more

$10.00 USD

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a
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Startup Myths and Models

What You Won't Learn in Business School

by Rizwan Virk ...

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the
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Enabling Next Generation Legacies

35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask

by Peter Jaskiewicz, Sabine B. Rau ...

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions
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Productive Tensions

How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

by Christopher B. Bingham, Rory M. McDonald ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation
... Read more
Acclimated to Africa

Cultural Competence for Westerners

by Debbi DiGennaro ...

Series Book 45 - Publications in Ethnography
Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West.
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy

Classic Concepts and New Perspectives

Edited by Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler ...

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, ... Read more

$23.00 USD

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers,
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Business Model Innovation

Concepts, Analysis, and Cases

by Allan Afuah ...

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals ... Read more

$125.99 USD

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals
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On Trust and AI

A Blueprint for the Intelligent Enterprise

by Alexander Feick ...

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices ... Read more

$9.99 USD

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices
... Read more

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