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

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

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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
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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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
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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
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
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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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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
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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
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Choice Architecture

A new approach to behavior, design, and wellness

by Avani Parikh, Prashant Parikh ...

From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions. Design can encourage us to walk, to experience community, to imagine new ways of being, and can affect countless other choices we make that shape our health and happiness.Using the ideas of rational choice theory and behavioral ... Read more

$34.99 USD

From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions. Design can encourage us to walk, to experience community, to imagine new ways of being, and can affect countless other choices we make that shape our health and happiness.Using the ideas of rational choice theory and behavioral
... Read more
Lateral Thinking: How To Apply Lateral Thinking To Everyday Life

by Chris Smythe ...

The Power of Lateral ThinkingLateral thinking is one of those terms that many people have heard of, but probably very few of us really know what it means. "Lateral thinking is a phrase coined by Dr. Edward de Bono as a counterpoint to conventional or vertical thinking. In conventional thinking, we go forward in a predictable, direct fashion. Lateral thinking involves coming at the problem from new ... Read more

$11.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Power of Lateral ThinkingLateral thinking is one of those terms that many people have heard of, but probably very few of us really know what it means. "Lateral thinking is a phrase coined by Dr. Edward de Bono as a counterpoint to conventional or vertical thinking. In conventional thinking, we go forward in a predictable, direct fashion. Lateral thinking involves coming at the problem from new
... Read more
Strategic IQ

Creating Smarter Corporations

by John Wells ...

In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies and innovate to remain at the top. But many successful firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to inertia, hesitate, or ... Read more

$29.00 USD

In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies and innovate to remain at the top. But many successful firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to inertia, hesitate, or
... Read more
The Strategic Formula

by Eric D. Noren ...

Every executive believes they have a strategy. But when you ask them to write it down — in a single statement specific enough that a new executive could read it and know exactly what the company is and isn't doing — something surprising happens. They write completely different answers. One leader describes a business model. Another describes a competitive advantage. A third describes the five-year ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Every executive believes they have a strategy. But when you ask them to write it down — in a single statement specific enough that a new executive could read it and know exactly what the company is and isn't doing — something surprising happens. They write completely different answers. One leader describes a business model. Another describes a competitive advantage. A third describes the five-year
... Read more
Brainhack

Tips and Tricks to Unleash Your Brain's Full Potential

by Neil Pavitt ...

Hack into the secret power of your brainYour Brain100 Billion Neurons100 Trillion ConnectionsAnd you only command 5% of it.Now it's time to take back control!In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.This book will help you:• Learn to think ... Read more

$11.00 USD

Hack into the secret power of your brainYour Brain100 Billion Neurons100 Trillion ConnectionsAnd you only command 5% of it.Now it's time to take back control!In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.This book will help you:• Learn to think
... Read more
Mental Models For Critical And Strategic Thinking: The General Thinking Concepts For Better Reasoning, Decision Making, Deep Analysis And Advanced Learning

by Phillip T. Erickson ...

Don't Ever Want To Lose Out On Achieving Super Success In Life on Account of Your Not Possessing The Ability To Think Critically? Then Read On.Are you one of those people who find it difficult to think critically in a manner that would take you ahead in life by helping you fare better at facing crunch situations in life? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if you ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Don't Ever Want To Lose Out On Achieving Super Success In Life on Account of Your Not Possessing The Ability To Think Critically? Then Read On.Are you one of those people who find it difficult to think critically in a manner that would take you ahead in life by helping you fare better at facing crunch situations in life? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if you
... Read more

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