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

Measure, Execute, Win

Avoiding Strategic Initiative Debacles and Knowing What Your Business Can

by Alex Castro ...

There's no lack of good ideas in today's business world, yet 50% of them are doomed to failure. Executives will often greenlight a strategic initiative based on a business case and financial analyses alone, with no idea whether their company has the ability to execute it successfully. But there's a better way to make corporate decisions. Alex Castro has developed the ReM Score™, a data-driven ... Read more

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There's no lack of good ideas in today's business world, yet 50% of them are doomed to failure. Executives will often greenlight a strategic initiative based on a business case and financial analyses alone, with no idea whether their company has the ability to execute it successfully. But there's a better way to make corporate decisions. Alex Castro has developed the ReM Score™, a data-driven
... Read more
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
The Art of Business and Military Warfare

English and Simplified Chinese Bilingual Edition

by Sun Tzu ...

The Art of Business and Military Warfare is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, the text is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on business, military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's ... Read more

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The Art of Business and Military Warfare is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, the text is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on business, military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's
... Read more
Six Sigma for Managers

24 Lessons to Understand and Apply Six Sigma Principles in Any Organization

by Greg Brue ...

Series series The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
Six Sigma for Managers is a practical overview on how to implement Six Sigma practices in everyday business. Emphasizing straightforward explanations instead of complex charts and statistics, it shows managers how to map processes, measure smart, and follow other Six Sigma principles. ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Six Sigma for Managers is a practical overview on how to implement Six Sigma practices in everyday business. Emphasizing straightforward explanations instead of complex charts and statistics, it shows managers how to map processes, measure smart, and follow other Six Sigma principles.
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Creative Strategy

A Guide for Innovation

by William Duggan, , Ph.D. ...

William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help individuals and organizations put that same method to work for their own innovations.Duggan's book ... Read more

$19.99 USD

William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help individuals and organizations put that same method to work for their own innovations.Duggan's book
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The Top 100 Closing Techniques

by Michael Dryall ...

Read this book description carefully because your income, family and future are at stake.Your potential customers say to you: "I want to think it over", "I'm not interested", "I want a discount", "I want to check with my partner", "Call me in 6 months", "You're too expensive", "I'm happy with who we're using", "We have no budget"If you don't have 5 to 10 specific answers to each of the above, you ... Read more

$3.54 USD

Read this book description carefully because your income, family and future are at stake.Your potential customers say to you: "I want to think it over", "I'm not interested", "I want a discount", "I want to check with my partner", "Call me in 6 months", "You're too expensive", "I'm happy with who we're using", "We have no budget"If you don't have 5 to 10 specific answers to each of the above, you
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Project Management, Second Edition (Briefcase Books Series)

by Gary R. Heerkens ...

ON TIME, ON BUDGET . . . MANAGE EVERY PROJECT LIKE A PROIn today's environment of tight turnarounds and even tighter budgets, the effective project manager is often considered the most valuable member of a workplace team.Project Management, Second Edition, provides a step-by-step introduction to the tools and techniques necessary to successfully spearhead your next project. This new edition has ... Read more

$17.99 USD

ON TIME, ON BUDGET . . . MANAGE EVERY PROJECT LIKE A PROIn today's environment of tight turnarounds and even tighter budgets, the effective project manager is often considered the most valuable member of a workplace team.Project Management, Second Edition, provides a step-by-step introduction to the tools and techniques necessary to successfully spearhead your next project. This new edition has
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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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The Stoic Systems Thinker

by Michael Lukich ...

The world got more complex. Our thinking hasn't kept up.We have access to more information than any generation in history. Yet, most of us find less clarity about what to do with it. The decisions are bigger. Variables keep multiplying. The old playbooks aren't working. This isn't an intelligence problem. It's a thinking problem-a growing gap between the complexity we face and our ability to think ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The world got more complex. Our thinking hasn't kept up.We have access to more information than any generation in history. Yet, most of us find less clarity about what to do with it. The decisions are bigger. Variables keep multiplying. The old playbooks aren't working. This isn't an intelligence problem. It's a thinking problem-a growing gap between the complexity we face and our ability to think
... Read more
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

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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
Positive Leadership

Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

by Kim Cameron ...

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron ... Read more

$15.99 USD

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron
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The Startup Rules

by David Murray-Hundley, Kevin Doyle ...

This book is our gift to the entrepreneurial world we cherish so deeply. 'The Startup Rules' is penned by two seasoned entrepreneurs and friends, boasting decades of combined experience spanning from initial ideas to successful exits and IPOs.Inside, you'll find:- **Foundational Principles**: Unearth the bedrock rules that govern 90% of startup successes and challenges.- **Tales from the Trenches* ... Read more

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This book is our gift to the entrepreneurial world we cherish so deeply. 'The Startup Rules' is penned by two seasoned entrepreneurs and friends, boasting decades of combined experience spanning from initial ideas to successful exits and IPOs.Inside, you'll find:- **Foundational Principles**: Unearth the bedrock rules that govern 90% of startup successes and challenges.- **Tales from the Trenches*
... Read more
Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops

The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

by Sheilah O'Brien ...

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better, but don’t know how. The author, an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits, speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop ... Read more

$65.99 USD

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better, but don’t know how. The author, an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits, speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop
... Read more
What I Didn't Learn in Business School

How Strategy Works in the Real World

by Jay Barney, Trish Gorman Clifford ...

Meet John Downs. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company developed.John and his team deploy state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze the attractiveness of potential markets for the technology. But they soon ... Read more

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Meet John Downs. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company developed.John and his team deploy state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze the attractiveness of potential markets for the technology. But they soon
... Read more
Process Mapping, Process Improvement, and Process Management

A Practical Guide for Enhancing Work and Information Flow

by Dan Madison ...

This is the No. 1 bestselling book on process mapping, process improvement, and process management. It will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and a ... Read more

$44.95 USD

This is the No. 1 bestselling book on process mapping, process improvement, and process management. It will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and a
... Read more
Give Yourself a Nudge

Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

by Ralph L. Keeney ...

The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make. This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and ultimately nudges you toward smarter decisions. These nudges frame more desirable decisions for you to face by identifying the objectives for your decisions and generating superior alternatives to those ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make. This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and ultimately nudges you toward smarter decisions. These nudges frame more desirable decisions for you to face by identifying the objectives for your decisions and generating superior alternatives to those
... 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
The Remodeling Life: A Journey from Laggard to Leader

by Paul L. Winans ...

Being a good craftsperson means having skill working with tools and materials. Becoming a good business person entails learning how to manage others and manage information. That remodeling project can be the hardest and most important one you'll ever do. This book is filled with moving stories and practical advice from a remodeler who made that journey. By following Paul Winans' advice, you can ... Read more

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Being a good craftsperson means having skill working with tools and materials. Becoming a good business person entails learning how to manage others and manage information. That remodeling project can be the hardest and most important one you'll ever do. This book is filled with moving stories and practical advice from a remodeler who made that journey. By following Paul Winans' advice, you can
... Read more
Labyrinth: The Art of Decision-Making

by Pawel Motyl ...

The next decision you make could change your life.Every day, we make countless choices, yet we rarely stop to consider how we arrive at those decisions as we speed through our lives. In Labyrinth, leadership expert Pawel Motyl believes it's time to take a closer look at how we make decisions—and learn how to decide better. Motyl digs into the series of decisions that led to some of the modern ... Read more

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The next decision you make could change your life.Every day, we make countless choices, yet we rarely stop to consider how we arrive at those decisions as we speed through our lives. In Labyrinth, leadership expert Pawel Motyl believes it's time to take a closer look at how we make decisions—and learn how to decide better. Motyl digs into the series of decisions that led to some of the modern
... Read more
Learn New Skills Here. How to Solve External and Internal Problems

.SHORT STORY #44. Nonfiction series #1 -# 60.

by Alla P. Gakuba ...

Series Book 44 - Nonfiction series
In my others stories on problem solving and how to create innovations I introduced many skills to readers. Here are another set of skills—how to solve external and internal problems. That is: the 1st, I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external and internal.External problems (outside problems)—are beyond my control.Internal problems (inside ... Read more

$1.99 USD

In my others stories on problem solving and how to create innovations I introduced many skills to readers. Here are another set of skills—how to solve external and internal problems. That is: the 1st, I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external and internal.External problems (outside problems)—are beyond my control.Internal problems (inside
... Read more
The Power of Mentor - Volume I

Leadership Mastery, #2

by Sreekanth Ganeshi ...

Series Book 2 - Leadership Mastery
Unlock the boundless potential that lies within you with "THE POWER OF MENTOR " VOLUME - I "The Mentorship Blueprint: Design Your Path To Achieving Excellence." This book is not just for anyone; it is for YOU—the passionate seeker of greatness who dares to dream big and reach for the stars.You, yes YOU, will experience the life-changing power of mentors. Look up to powerful role models, igniting ... Read more

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Unlock the boundless potential that lies within you with "THE POWER OF MENTOR " VOLUME - I "The Mentorship Blueprint: Design Your Path To Achieving Excellence." This book is not just for anyone; it is for YOU—the passionate seeker of greatness who dares to dream big and reach for the stars.You, yes YOU, will experience the life-changing power of mentors. Look up to powerful role models, igniting
... Read more
Strategic Performance Management

by Bernard Marr, Dina Gray ...

This book is about strategic performance management for the Twenty-First Century organization. In a practical step-by-step approach it navigates readers though the identification, measurement, and management of the strategic value drivers as enables of superior performance. Using many real life case examples this book outlines how organizations can visualize their value creation, design relevant ... Read more

$100.99 USD

This book is about strategic performance management for the Twenty-First Century organization. In a practical step-by-step approach it navigates readers though the identification, measurement, and management of the strategic value drivers as enables of superior performance. Using many real life case examples this book outlines how organizations can visualize their value creation, design relevant
... Read more
The Power of Unfair Advantage

How to Create It, Build it, and Use It to Maximum Effect

by John L. Nesheim ...

A Silicon Valley veteran and author of the bestseller High Tech Start Up reveals the nature of unfair advantage -- that holy grail for every company, the mysterious quality that separates successful businesses from the nine out of ten that fail -- and then shows how to create an unfair advantage, build it into a business plan, and use it to maximum effect.Nesheim's first book, originally self ... Read more

$15.99 USD

A Silicon Valley veteran and author of the bestseller High Tech Start Up reveals the nature of unfair advantage -- that holy grail for every company, the mysterious quality that separates successful businesses from the nine out of ten that fail -- and then shows how to create an unfair advantage, build it into a business plan, and use it to maximum effect.Nesheim's first book, originally self
... Read more
The Myth of Management

by Achraf Tiouali ...

Why do widely accepted management theories so often fail in practice? This book offers a rigorous and unconventional answer: because organisations are not machines, but complex adaptive systems.Drawing on the history of physics and social sciences, complexity science, evolutionary thinking, ergodicity economics, and computational models, the book examines the epistemological foundations of modern ... Read more

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Why do widely accepted management theories so often fail in practice? This book offers a rigorous and unconventional answer: because organisations are not machines, but complex adaptive systems.Drawing on the history of physics and social sciences, complexity science, evolutionary thinking, ergodicity economics, and computational models, the book examines the epistemological foundations of modern
... Read more

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