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

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy! Revised and Expanded Second Edition

by Warren Brussee ...

A PLAIN ENGLISH GUIDE TO SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS WITH SIX SIGMASix Sigma is one of the most effective strategies for improving processes, creating better products, and boosting customer satisfaction, but business leaders often balk at its reputation for being too complex. Don't fall into that trap. Six Sigma is simple to understand and implement--if you have Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A PLAIN ENGLISH GUIDE TO SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS WITH SIX SIGMASix Sigma is one of the most effective strategies for improving processes, creating better products, and boosting customer satisfaction, but business leaders often balk at its reputation for being too complex. Don't fall into that trap. Six Sigma is simple to understand and implement--if you have Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy
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Creative Construction

The DNA of Sustained Innovation

by Gary P. Pisano ...

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable ... Read more

$18.99 USD

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable
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Leadership in Organizations

There is a Difference Between Leaders and Managers

by David I. Bertocci ...

Leadership in Organizations is the first in a series of three books written primarily for distance-learning students in online undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on management, leadership, and organizational development. This first book introduces concepts, theories, and principles of leadership across a broad spectrum and is intended for students in online courses on leadership, ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Leadership in Organizations is the first in a series of three books written primarily for distance-learning students in online undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on management, leadership, and organizational development. This first book introduces concepts, theories, and principles of leadership across a broad spectrum and is intended for students in online courses on leadership,
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Nicky Hammerlane's Business Lessons from the Road

by Timothy D. Brady ...

What would a solution to your worst problem involving your small motor carrier be worth to you? How about a donation to a local charity, and some hours spent with the popular advisor-on-wheels, Nicky Hammerlane, he of the black Stetson and white International fame? Can't catch up with him? Here's the next best thing.This book is compiled of real-life problems that Nicky's helped solve over many ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

What would a solution to your worst problem involving your small motor carrier be worth to you? How about a donation to a local charity, and some hours spent with the popular advisor-on-wheels, Nicky Hammerlane, he of the black Stetson and white International fame? Can't catch up with him? Here's the next best thing.This book is compiled of real-life problems that Nicky's helped solve over many
... Read more
Da Preguiça à Produtividade

(sem sair do sítio)

by Nuno Donato ...

Para muitas pessoas, preguiça e produtividade são dois conceitos que se situam em lados opostos de um espectro. Para outros, como eu, estão muito próximos.O que nos interessa não é contar o número de horas que se dedicou a trabalhar. Nem mesmo o número de tarefas que se concluiu num determinado espaço de tempo. O que é, então, a produtividade?Num mundo que cada vez exige mais trabalho com atenção ... Read more

$5.81 USD

Para muitas pessoas, preguiça e produtividade são dois conceitos que se situam em lados opostos de um espectro. Para outros, como eu, estão muito próximos.O que nos interessa não é contar o número de horas que se dedicou a trabalhar. Nem mesmo o número de tarefas que se concluiu num determinado espaço de tempo. O que é, então, a produtividade?Num mundo que cada vez exige mais trabalho com atenção
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The Go Point

How to Get Off the Fence by Knowing What to Do and When to Do It

by Michael Useem ...

The Go Point—the moment of truth when you have to say “yes” or “no” when it’s time to get off the fence.Michael Useem—through dramatic storytelling—shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point, where actions—or lack of them—determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries.• Why on earth did Robert E. Lee ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The Go Point—the moment of truth when you have to say “yes” or “no” when it’s time to get off the fence.Michael Useem—through dramatic storytelling—shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point, where actions—or lack of them—determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries.• Why on earth did Robert E. Lee
... 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
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Leading Professionals

Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas

by Laura Empson ...

Professional organizations—such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks—are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private. This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations—revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Professional organizations—such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks—are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private. This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations—revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface
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The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide

What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

by Frans Johansson ...

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory
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La cuenta, por favor

La gestión de negocios de restauración

by David Rubert Boher ...

Series series Ensayo
Una herramienta práctica y efectiva que permitirá a cualquier profesional de la restauración y la hostelería gestionar su negocio.David Rubert repasa todos los elementos que hay que tener en cuenta para el control correcto y la óptima gestión de pequeña, mediana y gran empresa. De forma progresiva se muestra qué pasos hay que dar, y analiza en cada momento de vida del negocio, desde la puesta en ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Una herramienta práctica y efectiva que permitirá a cualquier profesional de la restauración y la hostelería gestionar su negocio.David Rubert repasa todos los elementos que hay que tener en cuenta para el control correcto y la óptima gestión de pequeña, mediana y gran empresa. De forma progresiva se muestra qué pasos hay que dar, y analiza en cada momento de vida del negocio, desde la puesta en
... Read more
Python Data Wrangling for Business Analytics

Python for Business Analytics Series

by George Snypes ...

Series series Python for Business Analytics Series
Master the essential skills of modern data analysis with this comprehensive guide to Python data wrangling, data cleaning, and business analytics. Whether you're a business analyst moving from Excel to Python, a data scientist optimizing workflows, or an analytics professional handling large datasets, this practical guide bridges the gap between basic Python programming and real-world data ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the essential skills of modern data analysis with this comprehensive guide to Python data wrangling, data cleaning, and business analytics. Whether you're a business analyst moving from Excel to Python, a data scientist optimizing workflows, or an analytics professional handling large datasets, this practical guide bridges the gap between basic Python programming and real-world data
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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
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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

$49.99 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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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Negotiation (with bonus article "15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" by Deepak Malhotra)

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Kahneman, Deepak Malhotra, Erin Meyer, Max H. Bazerman ...

Series series HBR's 10 Must Reads
Learn to be a better negotiator--and achieve the outcomes you want.If you read nothing else on how to negotiate successfully, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you avoid common mistakes, find hidden opportunities, and win the best deals possible.This book will inspire you to:Control the negotiation ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn to be a better negotiator--and achieve the outcomes you want.If you read nothing else on how to negotiate successfully, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you avoid common mistakes, find hidden opportunities, and win the best deals possible.This book will inspire you to:Control the negotiation
... 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
誤信：為什麼理性的人會相信不理性的事

Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

by 丹‧艾瑞利, Dan Ariely ...

Translated by 吳鄭重 ...

Series series 財經企管
哈拉瑞，暢銷書《人類大歷史》、《連結》作者丹尼爾‧品克，暢銷書《後悔的力量》作者雅莉安娜‧哈芬登，《哈芬登郵報》創辦人真誠推薦暢銷書《金錢心理學》、《誰說人是理性的！》作者丹‧艾瑞利最新力作！深入探討人性如何助長假消息蔓延增生，並引發社會危機！假消息天天影響我們，從社群媒體的留言、政治八卦、鄰居的耳語、到親友間的傳聞，全都充滿假消息。是什麼讓我們相信這些訊息？我們又為何會擁護這些訊息，進而傳播出去？知名社會學家丹‧艾瑞利認為，原因出在人人都有可能陷入「錯誤信念」。什麼是錯誤信念？這是一個扭曲的鏡片，人們會透過它來看待與理解世界，並將自己的見聞描述給其他人聽。這也是一個... ... Read more

$10.45 USD

哈拉瑞，暢銷書《人類大歷史》、《連結》作者丹尼爾‧品克，暢銷書《後悔的力量》作者雅莉安娜‧哈芬登，《哈芬登郵報》創辦人真誠推薦暢銷書《金錢心理學》、《誰說人是理性的！》作者丹‧艾瑞利最新力作！深入探討人性如何助長假消息蔓延增生，並引發社會危機！假消息天天影響我們，從社群媒體的留言、政治八卦、鄰居的耳語、到親友間的傳聞，全都充滿假消息。是什麼讓我們相信這些訊息？我們又為何會擁護這些訊息，進而傳播出去？知名社會學家丹‧艾瑞利認為，原因出在人人都有可能陷入「錯誤信念」。什麼是錯誤信念？這是一個扭曲的鏡片，人們會透過它來看待與理解世界，並將自己的見聞描述給其他人聽。這也是一個...
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Business Continuity Management

Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

by Michael Blyth ...

PRAISE FOR Business Continuity ManagementFew businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period of time, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time. Be prepared with the time-tested strategies in Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan and protect your employees while ... Read more

$45.00 USD

PRAISE FOR Business Continuity ManagementFew businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period of time, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time. Be prepared with the time-tested strategies in Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan and protect your employees while
... Read more
Strategic Continuous Process Improvement

by Gerhard J. Plenert ...

Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvementResolve "quality chaos" by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions. With a focus on building an integrated quality environment, Strategic Continuous Process Improvement: Which Quality Tools to Use and When to Use Them begins by discussing the different types of continuous process improvement (CPI) systems ... Read more

$37.99 USD

Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvementResolve "quality chaos" by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions. With a focus on building an integrated quality environment, Strategic Continuous Process Improvement: Which Quality Tools to Use and When to Use Them begins by discussing the different types of continuous process improvement (CPI) systems
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Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers

by Ginger Levin DPA, PMP, PgMP ...

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety
... Read more
Startups and Downs

The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs

by Mona Bijoor ...

Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and
... Read more
Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers

Achieve Better Results in a Dynamic World

by Michel A Dion ...

Project management is about delivering value and results. Project managers are under an incredible amount of stress, trying to complete their projects successfully. And when they do, they are often rewarded with increased responsibility such as managing projects with higher complexity and strategic importance.We live in a dynamic, innovative, fast-paced world with a high level of uncertainty. ... Read more

$3.63 USD

Project management is about delivering value and results. Project managers are under an incredible amount of stress, trying to complete their projects successfully. And when they do, they are often rewarded with increased responsibility such as managing projects with higher complexity and strategic importance.We live in a dynamic, innovative, fast-paced world with a high level of uncertainty.
... Read more
Solve It!

The Mindset and Tools of Smart Problem Solvers

by Dietmar Sternad ...

Apply the strategies and tools of smart problem solving-and succeed in work and life!What do Albert Einstein, Elon Musk, Sherlock Holmes and Mahatma Gandhiʼs six-year-old granddaughter have in common? They are all masters of the art of smart problem solving-a highly sought-after skill that you can learn too!• Gain insights into the surprising findings of the science of problem solving• Develop a ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Apply the strategies and tools of smart problem solving-and succeed in work and life!What do Albert Einstein, Elon Musk, Sherlock Holmes and Mahatma Gandhiʼs six-year-old granddaughter have in common? They are all masters of the art of smart problem solving-a highly sought-after skill that you can learn too!• Gain insights into the surprising findings of the science of problem solving• Develop a
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