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

You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

by Michele Wucker ...

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives.What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly ... Read more

$11.99 USD

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives.What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly
... Read more
The Illusion of Innovation

Escape "Efficiency" and Unleash Radical Progress

by Elliott Parker ...

There's a problem with innovation inside of big companies. And it's not what you think. Corporations are better managed than ever, but they're less capable of delivering the breakthroughs that change our world for the better. Big companies are too often focused on efficiency instead of resiliency. They're optimized for safety and predictability, for maintenance of the status quo. Their focus on ... Read more

$14.99 USD

There's a problem with innovation inside of big companies. And it's not what you think. Corporations are better managed than ever, but they're less capable of delivering the breakthroughs that change our world for the better. Big companies are too often focused on efficiency instead of resiliency. They're optimized for safety and predictability, for maintenance of the status quo. Their focus on
... Read more
Democratic Reason

Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

by Hélène Landemore ...

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision ... Read more

$23.09 USD

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision
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Inventory Strategy: Maximizing Financial, Service and Operations Performance with Inventory Strategy

by Edward H. Frazelle ...

An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory managementIn most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across the organization. Those initiatives normally include increasing SKUs, customization, and inventory ... Read more

$62.99 USD

An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory managementIn most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across the organization. Those initiatives normally include increasing SKUs, customization, and inventory
... Read more
Tackling Complexity

A Systemic Approach for Decision Makers

by Gilbert Probst, Andrea Bassi ...

Our socio-economic systems continue to grow and evolve. We need to acknowledge that, consequently, our decisions often fail – they are ineffective and create unexpected side effects. The speed of execution is increasing constantly and markets and systems respond almost immediately, making decision-making challenging. There is little or no room for failure.This important new book analyses real ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Our socio-economic systems continue to grow and evolve. We need to acknowledge that, consequently, our decisions often fail – they are ineffective and create unexpected side effects. The speed of execution is increasing constantly and markets and systems respond almost immediately, making decision-making challenging. There is little or no room for failure.This important new book analyses real
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Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge

How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

by John Willis ...

From the birth of modern industry, to winning WWII, to Japan’s Economic Miracle, W. Edwards Deming helped shape some of the most profound moments in modern history. Deming, an American engineer and statistician, is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of quality management. But his teachings go beyond quality management; they influence not only how we work today, but also how we ... Read more

$14.99 USD

From the birth of modern industry, to winning WWII, to Japan’s Economic Miracle, W. Edwards Deming helped shape some of the most profound moments in modern history. Deming, an American engineer and statistician, is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of quality management. But his teachings go beyond quality management; they influence not only how we work today, but also how we
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Las decisiones estratégicas

Los 30 modelos más útiles

by Marcel Planellas, Anna Muni ...

Aprende a tomar decisiones con las herramientas de análisis más empleadas y reconocidas en el mundo.A todos los que se encuentran ante el reto de tomar decisiones estratégicas, este libro les permitirá seguir un camino y escoger entre los 30 modelos estratégicos más reconocidos y útiles, descritos de forma concisa e ilustrados con un gráfico.Las decisiones estratégicas ayudará al lector a tomar ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Aprende a tomar decisiones con las herramientas de análisis más empleadas y reconocidas en el mundo.A todos los que se encuentran ante el reto de tomar decisiones estratégicas, este libro les permitirá seguir un camino y escoger entre los 30 modelos estratégicos más reconocidos y útiles, descritos de forma concisa e ilustrados con un gráfico.Las decisiones estratégicas ayudará al lector a tomar
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The Framemaking Sale

Sell More by Boosting Customer Confidence

by Brent Adamson, Karl Schmidt ...

This essential guide reinvents selling for today’s B2B market, showing sellers how to overcome stalled deals and customer indecisionBusiness-to-business commerce is broken. Today’s customers find themselves overwhelmed by too many options, too much information, and too many obstacles. The result is often an inability to execute any but the safest of purchase decisions, frequently resulting in no ... Read more

$18.99 USD

This essential guide reinvents selling for today’s B2B market, showing sellers how to overcome stalled deals and customer indecisionBusiness-to-business commerce is broken. Today’s customers find themselves overwhelmed by too many options, too much information, and too many obstacles. The result is often an inability to execute any but the safest of purchase decisions, frequently resulting in no
... Read more
Negotiation

A Very Short Introduction

by Carrie Menkel-Meadow ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal
... Read more
The Systems Thinker - Dynamic Systems

The Systems Thinker Series, #5

by Albert Rutherford ...

Series Book 5 - The Systems Thinker Series
Learn to be comfortable with change. Increase your tolerance for uncertainty.Chaos and unpredictability dominate our world- affecting even the smallest of events. We often cannot predict how seemingly insignificant actions will alter our lives. This may lead us into rash decisions driven by the urge to regain control and quickly fix problems. But poorly considered decisions often create more ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn to be comfortable with change. Increase your tolerance for uncertainty.Chaos and unpredictability dominate our world- affecting even the smallest of events. We often cannot predict how seemingly insignificant actions will alter our lives. This may lead us into rash decisions driven by the urge to regain control and quickly fix problems. But poorly considered decisions often create more
... Read more
Flip

How Counter-Intuitive Thinking is Changi

by Peter Sheahan ...

What do the superstars of modern business have in common? An ability to "flip"—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions. one of the youngest and fastest-rising stars on the international consulting and speaking circuit, Peter Sheahan reveals how the world's most effective organizations and individuals distinguish themselves from the ... Read more

$8.99 USD

What do the superstars of modern business have in common? An ability to "flip"—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions. one of the youngest and fastest-rising stars on the international consulting and speaking circuit, Peter Sheahan reveals how the world's most effective organizations and individuals distinguish themselves from the
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Managing Benefits: Optimizing the return from investments

by Steve Jenner ...

The purpose of this guide is to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide variety of organizations, with generally applicable guidance encompassing benefits management principles, practices and techniques. It includes an overview of benefits management, descripsions of the seven principles upon which successful benefits management practices are built, details ... Read more

$58.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The purpose of this guide is to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide variety of organizations, with generally applicable guidance encompassing benefits management principles, practices and techniques. It includes an overview of benefits management, descripsions of the seven principles upon which successful benefits management practices are built, details
... Read more
What's Keeping You Awake at Night

by David Bogan ...

Best-selling author and international mediation expert David Bogan presents a step-by-step guide to resolving conflict - and getting a good night's sleep!the handbook for life - how to analyse and solve problems By the co-author of the bestselling AVOID REtIREMENt AND StAY ALIVE. Is there a problem that's keeping you awake at night? Are you at war with the neighbours? Is your boss being ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Best-selling author and international mediation expert David Bogan presents a step-by-step guide to resolving conflict - and getting a good night's sleep!the handbook for life - how to analyse and solve problems By the co-author of the bestselling AVOID REtIREMENt AND StAY ALIVE. Is there a problem that's keeping you awake at night? Are you at war with the neighbours? Is your boss being
... Read more
Dancing With Robots

The 29 Strategies for Success In the Age of AI and Automation

by Bill Bishop ...

Survive and thrive in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology.Artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms, blockchains, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, 5G networks, self-driving cars, robotics, 3D printing. In the coming years, these technologies, and others to follow, will have a profound and dramatically disruptive impact on how we work and live. ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Survive and thrive in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology.Artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms, blockchains, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, 5G networks, self-driving cars, robotics, 3D printing. In the coming years, these technologies, and others to follow, will have a profound and dramatically disruptive impact on how we work and live.
... Read more
Analytics Stories

Using Data to Make Good Things Happen

by Wayne L. Winston ...

Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problemsAnalytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the ... Read more

$22.00 USD

Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problemsAnalytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the
... Read more
Effective Hiring

Mastering the Interview, Offer, and Onboarding

by Paul Falcone ...

Series series The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series
PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renowned hiring, performance management, and leadership development expert, walks you through the challenges you’ll face during the interviewing, hiring, and ... Read more

$7.99 USD

PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renowned hiring, performance management, and leadership development expert, walks you through the challenges you’ll face during the interviewing, hiring, and
... Read more
Building the Best: 8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to Success

8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to Success

by John Eades ...

Build a world-class team culture with proven principles from renowned “Follow My Lead” podcaster and business leader John EadesOrganizational culture has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century—and with it, the requirements of leadership. In Building the Best, LearnLoft CEO John Eades takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Build a world-class team culture with proven principles from renowned “Follow My Lead” podcaster and business leader John EadesOrganizational culture has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century—and with it, the requirements of leadership. In Building the Best, LearnLoft CEO John Eades takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of
... Read more
Tools for Team Leadership

Delivering the X-Factor in Team Excellence

by Gregory E. Huszczo ...

Become a team leader - no matter what role you play in your team!This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed. Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, Tools for Team Leadership solves the mystery of why some teams - regardless of talent - succeed ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Become a team leader - no matter what role you play in your team!This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed. Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, Tools for Team Leadership solves the mystery of why some teams - regardless of talent - succeed
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Critical Thinking In A Nutshell

How To Become An Independent Thinker And Make Intelligent Decisions (Critical Thinking & Logic Mastery)

by Thinknetic ...

Did you know that 93% of CEOs agree that THIS skill is MORE IMPORTANT than your college degree?Amazon's market cap is 1.7 TRILLION dollars. And it all started when Jeff Bezos used this skill to see a market inefficiency back in the day, before anyone else.During the 1980s "Coke Wars," Coca-Cola and Pepsi went back and forth competing to be America's top soda. But Coca-Cola didn't use this skill at ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Did you know that 93% of CEOs agree that THIS skill is MORE IMPORTANT than your college degree?Amazon's market cap is 1.7 TRILLION dollars. And it all started when Jeff Bezos used this skill to see a market inefficiency back in the day, before anyone else.During the 1980s "Coke Wars," Coca-Cola and Pepsi went back and forth competing to be America's top soda. But Coca-Cola didn't use this skill at
... Read more
Introduction to Consensus

by Beatrice Briggs ...

“Consensus” is a term that many people use to describe a vague process that somehow leads to general agreement. This book, written by Beatrice Briggs, an internationally recognized consultant who has been facilitating group processes for 25 years, clarifies what consensus is, what it is not and how to avoid some of the common traps that groups fall into when using this powerful decision-making ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“Consensus” is a term that many people use to describe a vague process that somehow leads to general agreement. This book, written by Beatrice Briggs, an internationally recognized consultant who has been facilitating group processes for 25 years, clarifies what consensus is, what it is not and how to avoid some of the common traps that groups fall into when using this powerful decision-making
... Read more
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 QuickSteps

by Marty Matthews, Nancy Buchanan ...

Series series QuickSteps
Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Start using SharePoint 2010 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to ramp up on the latest release of Microsoft's powerful collaboration platform. Follow along and quickly learn how to use a SharePoint site, add pages and web parts, create and manage lists and libraries, and integrate with and collaborate using ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Start using SharePoint 2010 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to ramp up on the latest release of Microsoft's powerful collaboration platform. Follow along and quickly learn how to use a SharePoint site, add pages and web parts, create and manage lists and libraries, and integrate with and collaborate using
... Read more
Design Thinking Meets Change Management

by Lena Ross ...

Disruption and new ways of working call for different approaches to how we lead and deliver change.At the same time, the employee experience is now regarded as important, if not more important, than the customer experience.Let's demystify Design Thinking - aka Human Centred Design - and how we can apply it to change management.With a strong practical focus, this playbook shows you how to integrate ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Disruption and new ways of working call for different approaches to how we lead and deliver change.At the same time, the employee experience is now regarded as important, if not more important, than the customer experience.Let's demystify Design Thinking - aka Human Centred Design - and how we can apply it to change management.With a strong practical focus, this playbook shows you how to integrate
... Read more
Street Pricing

A Pricing Playlist for Hip Leaders in B2B SaaS

by Marcos Rivera ...

Shift Your Pricing Strategy from Guesswork to FrameworkThere are many struggles in the SaaS world, but the biggest one is arguably the most important one: pricing. Leaving money on the table by charging too little or driving clients away with confusing plans is one of the many reasons why many SaaS companies fail.Getting pricing right can be the difference between just getting by and high revenue ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Shift Your Pricing Strategy from Guesswork to FrameworkThere are many struggles in the SaaS world, but the biggest one is arguably the most important one: pricing. Leaving money on the table by charging too little or driving clients away with confusing plans is one of the many reasons why many SaaS companies fail.Getting pricing right can be the difference between just getting by and high revenue
... Read more
Be Data Literate

The Data Literacy Skills Everyone Needs to Succeed

by Jordan Morrow ...

WINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Technology (1st edition)Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but everyone should be data literate in a fast-moving world that brings new technological developments every day.It is not enough for a business to have the best data if those using it don't understand the right questions to ask or how to use the information generated to make ... Read more

$29.99 USD

WINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Technology (1st edition)Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but everyone should be data literate in a fast-moving world that brings new technological developments every day.It is not enough for a business to have the best data if those using it don't understand the right questions to ask or how to use the information generated to make
... Read more

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