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

Rock Breaks Scissors

A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

by William Poundstone ...

A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market.People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life.Will the next tennis ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market.People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life.Will the next tennis
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The Algorithm

The Hypergrowth Formula That Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors, and SpaceX

by Jon McNeill ...

**A USA Today BestsellerFrom a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.**Jon McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced ... Read more

$15.99 USD

**A USA Today BestsellerFrom a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.**Jon McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced
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The Seed

Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work

by Jon Gordon ...

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**More than 100,000 soldA business fable to help you discover your purpose in work and life**New from Jon Gordon, the international and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Energy Bus, The Seed takes you on a quest for the meaning and passion behind work. Josh, an up-and-comer at his company, is disenchanted with his job. Challenged by his boss to take two weeks to decide if he really ... Read more

$15.00 USD

**More than 100,000 soldA business fable to help you discover your purpose in work and life**New from Jon Gordon, the international and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Energy Bus, The Seed takes you on a quest for the meaning and passion behind work. Josh, an up-and-comer at his company, is disenchanted with his job. Challenged by his boss to take two weeks to decide if he really
... Read more
Change by Design, Revised and Updated

How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

by Tim Brown ...

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business as a powerful framework for innovation.The myth of innovation is that ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business as a powerful framework for innovation.The myth of innovation is that
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Becoming a Person of Influence

How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

by John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan ...

Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others.America's leadership expert John Maxwell and renowned author Jim Dornan teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Learn the tactics to interact more effectively with people, and watch your organizational ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others.America's leadership expert John Maxwell and renowned author Jim Dornan teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Learn the tactics to interact more effectively with people, and watch your organizational
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The Shark and the Goldfish

Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change

by Jon Gordon ...

Series series Jon Gordon
More than 100,000 copies sold!An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climateFear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead to new opportunities. It's easy to worry, give up and let fear paralyze you. However, you have more control than you ... Read more

$13.00 USD

More than 100,000 copies sold!An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climateFear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead to new opportunities. It's easy to worry, give up and let fear paralyze you. However, you have more control than you
... Read more
Amp It Up

Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

by Frank Slootman ...

**Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is your mindset**Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for ... Read more

$18.00 USD

**Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is your mindset**Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for
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Creativity Rules

Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

by Tina Seelig ...

$9.49 USD
Blind Spots

Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

$14.99 USD

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco
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Practical Wisdom

The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

by Barry Schwartz, Kenneth Sharpe ...

A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual
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The Art of Uncertainty

How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

by David Spiegelhalter ...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and The Economist“Valuable and rare.” —EconomistFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.**How dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as ... Read more

$13.99 USD

**Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and The Economist“Valuable and rare.” —EconomistFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.**How dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as
... Read more
The Science of Fear

How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner ...

“An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future BabbleFrom terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. Yet we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Why are we so ... Read more

$9.99 USD

“An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future BabbleFrom terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. Yet we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Why are we so
... Read more
Leading the Unleadable

How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult People

by Alan Willett ...

SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAREvery manager has to deal with difficult employees. However, what separates the great managers is their ability to turn them into productive team players.Control freaks. Narcissists. Slackers. Cynics. Their outbursts, irrational demands, gripes, and countless other disruptions need to be dealt with, and you are the unlucky one with that job description.This book ... Read more

$12.99 USD

SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAREvery manager has to deal with difficult employees. However, what separates the great managers is their ability to turn them into productive team players.Control freaks. Narcissists. Slackers. Cynics. Their outbursts, irrational demands, gripes, and countless other disruptions need to be dealt with, and you are the unlucky one with that job description.This book
... Read more
Practically Radical

Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself

by William C. Taylor ...

“The most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read. It will persuade and inspire you to change your business, your work, and maybe your life.” —Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New MindIn Practically Radical, William C. Taylor, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mavericks at Work offers a refreshing, rigorous new look at pragmatic ways for effective leadership ... Read more

$7.99 USD

“The most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read. It will persuade and inspire you to change your business, your work, and maybe your life.” —Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New MindIn Practically Radical, William C. Taylor, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mavericks at Work offers a refreshing, rigorous new look at pragmatic ways for effective leadership
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Instant Influence

How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast

by Michael Pantalon, PhD ...

If you want to motivate your employees to be more productive, convince your customers to use more of your products and services, encourage a loved one to engage in healthier habits, or inspire any change in yourself, renowned psychologist Dr. Michael Pantalon can show you how to achieve Instant Influence in six simple steps. Drawing on three decades of research, Dr. Pantalon's easy-to-learn method ... Read more

$12.99 USD

If you want to motivate your employees to be more productive, convince your customers to use more of your products and services, encourage a loved one to engage in healthier habits, or inspire any change in yourself, renowned psychologist Dr. Michael Pantalon can show you how to achieve Instant Influence in six simple steps. Drawing on three decades of research, Dr. Pantalon's easy-to-learn method
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Mission Economy

A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

by Mariana Mazzucato ...

Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives“She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.”—New York TimesAn award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and much needed critique of modern capitalism in which she argues that, to solve the massive crises facing ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives“She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.”—New York TimesAn award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and much needed critique of modern capitalism in which she argues that, to solve the massive crises facing
... Read more
Lateral Thinking

Creativity Step by Step

by Edward de Bono ...

The classic work on creativity and problem-solving techniques that "provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear" ( Times Educational Supplement).The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented classic reveals how to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought—focused on following step-by-step logic in search of a single "correct" ... Read more

$17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The classic work on creativity and problem-solving techniques that "provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear" ( Times Educational Supplement).The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented classic reveals how to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought—focused on following step-by-step logic in search of a single "correct"
... Read more
Conflicted

How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes

by Ian Leslie ...

Drawing on advice from the world’s leading experts on conflict and communication—from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats—Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight, creativity and connection, in a book with vital lessons for the home, workplace, and public arena.For most ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Drawing on advice from the world’s leading experts on conflict and communication—from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats—Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight, creativity and connection, in a book with vital lessons for the home, workplace, and public arena.For most
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Post Corona

From Crisis to Opportunity

by Scott Galloway ...

New York Times bestseller!"Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime." --The ... Read more

$12.99 USD

New York Times bestseller!"Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime." --The
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Lessons From Systems Thinkers

The Systems Thinker Series, #7

by Albert Rutherford ...

Series Book 7 - The Systems Thinker Series
How did the world's greatest systems thinkers handled crises, invented revolutionary ideas, and solved complex problems?How did the field of systems thinking develop? Who were the pioneers in the field?Learn about the answers in Lessons from Systems Thinkers.Norbert Wiener's pioneering contribution on positive and negative feedback.Warren McCulloch's research on feedback mechanisms in neurology ... Read more

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How did the world's greatest systems thinkers handled crises, invented revolutionary ideas, and solved complex problems?How did the field of systems thinking develop? Who were the pioneers in the field?Learn about the answers in Lessons from Systems Thinkers.Norbert Wiener's pioneering contribution on positive and negative feedback.Warren McCulloch's research on feedback mechanisms in neurology
... Read more
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES for the 21st Century

by Peter F. Drucker ...

A call to action for tomorrow’s leaders, confronting the radical demographic shifts, economic realities, and new paradigms of our time.Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management.Rooted in operational reality, the volume examines the collapse of traditional birthrates, ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A call to action for tomorrow’s leaders, confronting the radical demographic shifts, economic realities, and new paradigms of our time.Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management.Rooted in operational reality, the volume examines the collapse of traditional birthrates,
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Talking to 'Crazy'

How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life

by Mark Goulston ...

No matter how hard you try to reason with irrational people, it never works. So how do you talk to someone who just won't listen? You can't win by ignoring the insanity, and you can't argue it away. However, you can stop it cold.Top-ranked psychiatrist and communication expert Mark Goulston shows you just how to do so in this life-changing book for everyone trapped in maddening personal or ... Read more

$11.99 USD

No matter how hard you try to reason with irrational people, it never works. So how do you talk to someone who just won't listen? You can't win by ignoring the insanity, and you can't argue it away. However, you can stop it cold.Top-ranked psychiatrist and communication expert Mark Goulston shows you just how to do so in this life-changing book for everyone trapped in maddening personal or
... Read more
The Accidental Creative

How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

by Todd Henry ...

Have better ideas, faster, without the stress and burnout.It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us-even the accountants-have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Have better ideas, faster, without the stress and burnout.It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us-even the accountants-have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular
... Read more
Shikake

The Japanese Art of Shaping Behavior Through Design

by Naohiro Matsumura ...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up meets Nudge in this irresistible design method from Japan.We are living in a time when behavioral change is necessary for our health and survival. Yet we find it exceedingly difficult to transform our own habits, let alone those of other people. Enter Naohiro Matsumura, whose powerful new design method is as astonishingly simple in its logic as it is ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up meets Nudge in this irresistible design method from Japan.We are living in a time when behavioral change is necessary for our health and survival. Yet we find it exceedingly difficult to transform our own habits, let alone those of other people. Enter Naohiro Matsumura, whose powerful new design method is as astonishingly simple in its logic as it is
... Read more

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