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

Guide to Effective Committees for Directors of Not-For-Profit Organizations, Third Edition

by Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE ...

Committees are a vital component of a successful organization. When they work effectively, committees provide valuable insight and advice to the board of directors and staff, and can help an organization efficiently achieve its goals and vision. They can also connect an organization with the attitudes and concerns of its members and serve as an important training ground for future leaders. But ... Read more

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Committees are a vital component of a successful organization. When they work effectively, committees provide valuable insight and advice to the board of directors and staff, and can help an organization efficiently achieve its goals and vision. They can also connect an organization with the attitudes and concerns of its members and serve as an important training ground for future leaders. But
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Think for Yourself

Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

by Vikram Mansharamani ...

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back?Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioningly followed the advice of an expert—perhaps a doctor or financial adviser—only to learn later that your own thoughts and doubts were correct? And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back?Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioningly followed the advice of an expert—perhaps a doctor or financial adviser—only to learn later that your own thoughts and doubts were correct? And what about the stories we've all heard over the years about sick patients—whether infected with Ebola or
... Read more
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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The Change Book

How Things Happen

by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler ...

The world is in constant flux—this handy book helps make sense of it.From business cycles to budding trends, models make sense of a world that never stops spinning. The Change Book delivers 52 simple and effective models—each with a visual component—about how change happens.Drawing on myth-busting theories and breakthrough discoveries from thinkers of all stripes, Mikael Krogerus and Roman ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The world is in constant flux—this handy book helps make sense of it.From business cycles to budding trends, models make sense of a world that never stops spinning. The Change Book delivers 52 simple and effective models—each with a visual component—about how change happens.Drawing on myth-busting theories and breakthrough discoveries from thinkers of all stripes, Mikael Krogerus and Roman
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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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Global Supply Chains: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework – Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence

Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework – Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence

by Philippe-Pierre Dornier, Kenneth Petersen, Mandyam Srinivasan, Theodore Stank ...

A proven framework for measuring the supply chain potential of geographic regionsManaging a complex global supply chain requires a strategic assessment of the various factors that can affect decisions on procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and sales. Co-written by renowned experts in global supply chain management, this book presents a systematic, structured approach ... Read more

$79.99 USD

A proven framework for measuring the supply chain potential of geographic regionsManaging a complex global supply chain requires a strategic assessment of the various factors that can affect decisions on procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and sales. Co-written by renowned experts in global supply chain management, this book presents a systematic, structured approach
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Can You Outsmart an Economist?

100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain

by Steven E. Landsburg ...

This entertaining way to learn economics "will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers" (Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic).Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This entertaining way to learn economics "will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers" (Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic).Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional
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The Competitive Power of the Product Lifecycle

Revolutionise the way you sell your products

by 50minutes ...

Series Book 2 - Management & Marketing
The fundamental stages behind every productThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and applying the concept of product lifecycle, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the theory of the product lifecycle and the features of each of the four phases: launch, growth, maturity and decline• Learn how to make ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The fundamental stages behind every productThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and applying the concept of product lifecycle, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the theory of the product lifecycle and the features of each of the four phases: launch, growth, maturity and decline• Learn how to make
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It's Personal, Not Personnel

by Rob Campbell ...

There has never been a more important time -- in corporate America and in the American military -- for leaders, at all levels, to understand how to invest in people. This book teaches you to do just that. Written by a 27-year Army Colonel, veteran and leader of more than 5,000 troops in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, It's Personal, Not Personnel: Leadership Lessons for the ... Read more

$9.99 USD

There has never been a more important time -- in corporate America and in the American military -- for leaders, at all levels, to understand how to invest in people. This book teaches you to do just that. Written by a 27-year Army Colonel, veteran and leader of more than 5,000 troops in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, It's Personal, Not Personnel: Leadership Lessons for the
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Anchor System Thinking: How to Make Life Changing Decisions

by A. I. Shoukry ...

Decision-making in uncertain times requires a fresh approach. A deeper understanding of our problems and ourselves to make life-changing decisions.Dalai Lama declared that critical thinking is the most needed tool for our society today, and Shoukry has shared a system for critical thinking explained in simple terms.A. I. Shoukry is a bestselling author and founder of The Decisions Academy, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Decision-making in uncertain times requires a fresh approach. A deeper understanding of our problems and ourselves to make life-changing decisions.Dalai Lama declared that critical thinking is the most needed tool for our society today, and Shoukry has shared a system for critical thinking explained in simple terms.A. I. Shoukry is a bestselling author and founder of The Decisions Academy,
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MERITOCRACY

How to manage talent for higher profits and happier people

by Paolo Gaudiano, Cynthia Annette Overton ...

Most leaders believe in meritocracy—very few know how to build it.Meritocracy introduces a powerful framework for managing human assets more effectively so that all talent can thrive.Learn how to develop strategies and implement measurable workplace initiatives that reduce risk, increase profits and build trust across your workforce, so that everyone embraces—and is accountable for—the success of ... Read more

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Most leaders believe in meritocracy—very few know how to build it.Meritocracy introduces a powerful framework for managing human assets more effectively so that all talent can thrive.Learn how to develop strategies and implement measurable workplace initiatives that reduce risk, increase profits and build trust across your workforce, so that everyone embraces—and is accountable for—the success of
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Workplace Warfare: How to Survive Incompetent Colleagues, Horrible Bosses and Organizational Theatrics

by Yasser Mattar ...

Every morning when you walk into the workplace, you watch your step for landmines. Every time you pop your head up above your cubicle, you see arrows flying in your direction. You duck, just to avoid them. Fearing for your safety, you dig a foxhole and bury yourself in it for the next nine hours. At the end of the day, when you walk out of the workplace, you thank your lucky stars that you came ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Every morning when you walk into the workplace, you watch your step for landmines. Every time you pop your head up above your cubicle, you see arrows flying in your direction. You duck, just to avoid them. Fearing for your safety, you dig a foxhole and bury yourself in it for the next nine hours. At the end of the day, when you walk out of the workplace, you thank your lucky stars that you came
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Together We Decide

An Essential Guide For Making Good Group Decisions

by Craig Freshley ...

**Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2023 in NonfictionDoes your group need help making good decisions?**All groups—teams, boards, nonprofits, businesses, governments—must make decisions to make forward progress. In organizations large and small, simple and complex, public and private, people need to decide things together.With tips, principles, examples, and stories, Craig Freshley shares the ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

**Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2023 in NonfictionDoes your group need help making good decisions?**All groups—teams, boards, nonprofits, businesses, governments—must make decisions to make forward progress. In organizations large and small, simple and complex, public and private, people need to decide things together.With tips, principles, examples, and stories, Craig Freshley shares the
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Agile by Design

An Implementation Guide to Analytic Lifecycle Management

by Rachel Alt-Simmons ...

Series series Wiley and SAS Business Series
Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle managementAgile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. You will explore, in-depth, what analytics projects are and why they are set apart from traditional development initiatives. Beyond ... Read more

$31.00 USD

Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle managementAgile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. You will explore, in-depth, what analytics projects are and why they are set apart from traditional development initiatives. Beyond
... Read more
Making Questions Work

A Guide to How and What to Ask for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Coaches, and Educators

by Dorothy Strachan ...

This book is an invaluable desk reference for facilitators, leaders, coaches and anyone who wants to engage in more effective learning and decision-making conversations. It offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful. ... Read more

$50.00 USD

This book is an invaluable desk reference for facilitators, leaders, coaches and anyone who wants to engage in more effective learning and decision-making conversations. It offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful.
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IT (Information Technology) Portfolio Management Step-by-Step

Unlocking the Business Value of Technology

by Bryan Maizlish, Robert Handler ...

Praise for IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step"Bryan Maizlish and Robert Handler bring their deep experience in IT 'value realization' to one of the most absent of all IT management practices--portfolio management. They capture the essence of universally proven investment practices and apply them to the most difficult of challenges--returning high strategic and dollar payoffs from an enterprise's ... Read more

$33.00 USD

Praise for IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step"Bryan Maizlish and Robert Handler bring their deep experience in IT 'value realization' to one of the most absent of all IT management practices--portfolio management. They capture the essence of universally proven investment practices and apply them to the most difficult of challenges--returning high strategic and dollar payoffs from an enterprise's
... Read more
Demand-Driven Forecasting

A Structured Approach to Forecasting

by Charles W. Chase ...

Series series Wiley and SAS Business Series
An updated new edition of the comprehensive guide to better business forecastingMany companies still look at quantitative forecasting methods with suspicion, but a new awareness is emerging across many industries as more businesses and professionals recognize the value of integrating demand data (point-of-sale and syndicated scanner data) into the forecasting process. Demand-Driven Forecasting ... Read more

$66.00 USD

An updated new edition of the comprehensive guide to better business forecastingMany companies still look at quantitative forecasting methods with suspicion, but a new awareness is emerging across many industries as more businesses and professionals recognize the value of integrating demand data (point-of-sale and syndicated scanner data) into the forecasting process. Demand-Driven Forecasting
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Decision-Driven Analytics

Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data

by Bart De Langhe, Stefano Puntoni ...

Companies have more data at their fingertips than ever before. Yet, studies show that many executives and organizations fail to extract real value from it.Challenging the conventional wisdom of data-driven decision-making, marketing professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni argue that many analytics efforts flounder because data analyses are disconnected from the ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Companies have more data at their fingertips than ever before. Yet, studies show that many executives and organizations fail to extract real value from it.Challenging the conventional wisdom of data-driven decision-making, marketing professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni argue that many analytics efforts flounder because data analyses are disconnected from the
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Meeting The Machine

by Cristina DiGiacomo ...

Most of what is written about AI is loud. This book is a quiet guide to what you can do.Eleven disciplines about who we can become when we meet the machine. It is short enough to carry and deep enough to return to. It goes into a coat pocket, then onto a desk, then, sooner than you expect, quietly passed along into someone else's hands.Read it once and the loudness fades. Keep it close and the ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Most of what is written about AI is loud. This book is a quiet guide to what you can do.Eleven disciplines about who we can become when we meet the machine. It is short enough to carry and deep enough to return to. It goes into a coat pocket, then onto a desk, then, sooner than you expect, quietly passed along into someone else's hands.Read it once and the loudness fades. Keep it close and the
... Read more
High-Stakes Leadership

Leading Through Crisis with Courage, Judgment, and Fortitude

by Constance Dierickx ...

What makes some leaders so effective when the stakes are high, while others fall short? Why are some able to not only survive but to lead their organizations to new heights even in risky, fast-changing times? The answer is succinct but multi-layered: such leaders display courage, judgment, and fortitude.High-stakes leadership does not require unnatural powers, nor is it predicated on a dangerous ... Read more

$38.99 USD

What makes some leaders so effective when the stakes are high, while others fall short? Why are some able to not only survive but to lead their organizations to new heights even in risky, fast-changing times? The answer is succinct but multi-layered: such leaders display courage, judgment, and fortitude.High-stakes leadership does not require unnatural powers, nor is it predicated on a dangerous
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From Rebel to Radical Innovator

Leading the Transformation through Circularity

by Albin Kaelin ...

"A book for the businesses of tomorrow"THE EUROPEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE REVIEWFrom Rebel to Radical Innovator: Leading the Transformation through Circularity by Albin KaelinIn a world craving sustainable solutions, Albin Kaelin emerges as a visionary, offering a comprehensive guide to revolutionize industries through cradle-to-cradle and circularity principles. With over three decades of exper... ... Read more

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"A book for the businesses of tomorrow"THE EUROPEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE REVIEWFrom Rebel to Radical Innovator: Leading the Transformation through Circularity by Albin KaelinIn a world craving sustainable solutions, Albin Kaelin emerges as a visionary, offering a comprehensive guide to revolutionize industries through cradle-to-cradle and circularity principles. With over three decades of exper...
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The Strategist's Handbook

Tools, Templates, and Best Practices Across the Strategy Process

by Timothy Galpin ...

Strategy, an ancient pursuit, has evolved through the centuries and in today's business environment applies to all organizations, across all sectors and geographies. The Strategist's Handbook is a collection of the best materials, insights, tools, and templates that comprise the core Strategy course taught in the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Post-graduate Diploma programs at the SaÃ¯d ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Strategy, an ancient pursuit, has evolved through the centuries and in today's business environment applies to all organizations, across all sectors and geographies. The Strategist's Handbook is a collection of the best materials, insights, tools, and templates that comprise the core Strategy course taught in the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Post-graduate Diploma programs at the SaÃ¯d
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費米解題推斷：職場即戰場，職涯必備的「問題解決力」，就讓圖像思考幫助你！

by 吉田雅裕, 木本篤茂 ...

業績好難做，到底如何有效提高營業額呢**?**減肥真困難，你知道怎樣降低減重難度嗎**?**只要用對圖解法，任何事都能夠事半功倍！生活中的大小問題如何迎刃而解，重點不只是努力，你更要善用合適的圖像思考力！職場必備「問題解決力」，有效解決方案交給你！職場首重「問題解決能力」，不想成為一個經驗用十年的化石鳥，想當機巧靈活的聰明鳥嗎? 你肯定會遇到「如何提高營業額」、「如何增加遊客量」、「如何提高英語能力」等在商場、社會、日常生活中遇到的問題。不管是哪一類問題都有一個共通點，就是通過合理的假設以及熟練的邏輯推理，在不做任何調查的前提下，短時間內進行模擬推斷。解決問題的能力，是有邏輯的... ... Read more

$7.99 USD

業績好難做，到底如何有效提高營業額呢**?**減肥真困難，你知道怎樣降低減重難度嗎**?**只要用對圖解法，任何事都能夠事半功倍！生活中的大小問題如何迎刃而解，重點不只是努力，你更要善用合適的圖像思考力！職場必備「問題解決力」，有效解決方案交給你！職場首重「問題解決能力」，不想成為一個經驗用十年的化石鳥，想當機巧靈活的聰明鳥嗎? 你肯定會遇到「如何提高營業額」、「如何增加遊客量」、「如何提高英語能力」等在商場、社會、日常生活中遇到的問題。不管是哪一類問題都有一個共通點，就是通過合理的假設以及熟練的邏輯推理，在不做任何調查的前提下，短時間內進行模擬推斷。解決問題的能力，是有邏輯的...
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Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, Rob Wertheimer ...

Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans—the high-tech companies of their day—to the disruptors that now dominate the economy.Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans—the high-tech companies of their day—to the disruptors that now dominate the economy.Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were
... Read more

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