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

Great People Decisions

Why They Matter So Much, Why They are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them

by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz ...

Praise for Great People Decisions"Fernandez-Araoz has captured the essence of building great teams with a masterful and entirely practical study of what goes into getting people selection right."--JACK WELCH"Fernandez-Araoz does a great service with this wonderful book, teaching us how to accomplish the first task of any exceptional leader: get the right people on the bus, and into the right seats ... Read more

$26.00 USD

Praise for Great People Decisions"Fernandez-Araoz has captured the essence of building great teams with a masterful and entirely practical study of what goes into getting people selection right."--JACK WELCH"Fernandez-Araoz does a great service with this wonderful book, teaching us how to accomplish the first task of any exceptional leader: get the right people on the bus, and into the right seats
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Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

by John P. Kotter, Lorne A. Whitehead ...

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Those who would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company. Perhaps even ... Read more

$20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Those who would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company. Perhaps even
... Read more
Beyond Reengineering

How the Process-Centered Organization Will Change Our Work and Our Lives

by Michael Hammer ...

$6.99 USD
TRIZ For Dummies

by Lilly Haines-Gadd ...

Use TRIZ to unlock creative problem solvingAre you new to TRIZ and looking for an easy-to-follow guide on how you can use it to enhance your company's creativity, innovation and problem-solving abilities? Look no further! Written in plain English and packed with tons of accessible and easy-to-follow instruction, TRIZ For Dummies shows you how to use this powerful toolkit to discover all the ways ... Read more

$21.00 USD

Use TRIZ to unlock creative problem solvingAre you new to TRIZ and looking for an easy-to-follow guide on how you can use it to enhance your company's creativity, innovation and problem-solving abilities? Look no further! Written in plain English and packed with tons of accessible and easy-to-follow instruction, TRIZ For Dummies shows you how to use this powerful toolkit to discover all the ways
... Read more
Smaller is Better: Using Small Autonomous Teams to Drive the Future of Enterprise

by Brady Brim-DeForest ...

Small is the next big thing.When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that don't actually serve the customer—products you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Small is the next big thing.When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that don't actually serve the customer—products you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the
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Lean Six Sigma - An Introduction and Toolkit (EBOOK BUNDLE)

by Michael L. George Sr. ...

Meet all your customers’ needs—and your company’s goals—with the tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma2 top-quality guides in 1 powerful eBook package!When you combine Lean Production and Six Sigma, you can’t fail to deliver positive results on a continual basis. This powerful mix—called Lean Six Sigma—is what some of the world’s most successful organizations use to launch themselves ahead of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Meet all your customers’ needs—and your company’s goals—with the tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma2 top-quality guides in 1 powerful eBook package!When you combine Lean Production and Six Sigma, you can’t fail to deliver positive results on a continual basis. This powerful mix—called Lean Six Sigma—is what some of the world’s most successful organizations use to launch themselves ahead of the
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Wait

The Art and Science of Delay

by Frank Partnoy ...

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts ... Read more

$10.99 USD

What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts
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The Analytical Marketer

How to Transform Your Marketing Organization

by Adele Sweetwood ...

How to lead the changeAnalytics are driving big changes, not only in what marketing departments do but in how they are organized, staffed, led, and run. Leaders are grappling with issues that range from building an analytically driven marketing organization and determining the kinds of structure and talent that are needed to leading interactions with IT, finance, and sales and creating a unified ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

How to lead the changeAnalytics are driving big changes, not only in what marketing departments do but in how they are organized, staffed, led, and run. Leaders are grappling with issues that range from building an analytically driven marketing organization and determining the kinds of structure and talent that are needed to leading interactions with IT, finance, and sales and creating a unified
... Read more
The Myth of Experience

Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them

by Robin M Hogarth, Emre Soyer ...

Experience is a great teacher . . . except when it isn't. In this groundbreaking guide, learn how the past can deceive and limit us -- and how healthy skepticism can build a better world.Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do. We judge others by their experience and are judged by ours. Society venerates experience. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Experience is a great teacher . . . except when it isn't. In this groundbreaking guide, learn how the past can deceive and limit us -- and how healthy skepticism can build a better world.Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do. We judge others by their experience and are judged by ours. Society venerates experience. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more
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Hot Seat

The Startup CEO Guidebook

by Dan Shapiro ...

What avoidable problem destroys more young startups than any other?Why is it a mistake to ask for introductions to investors?When do you play the CEO card?Should you sell out?Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these pages. From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read ... Read more

$21.99 USD

What avoidable problem destroys more young startups than any other?Why is it a mistake to ask for introductions to investors?When do you play the CEO card?Should you sell out?Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these pages. From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read
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Google衝刺工作法（暢銷新裝版）──Google打造成功產品的祕密，5天5步驟迅速解決難題、測試新點子、完成更多工作！

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days

by 傑克．納普, Jake Knapp, 約翰．澤拉斯, John Zeratsky, 布雷登．柯維茲, Braden Kowitz ...

（初版書名為《Google創投認證！SPRINT衝刺計畫》）蘋果、亞馬遜、特斯拉、Airbnb、Mercedes-Benz、American Express、Nike、IKEA等成功企業競相偷師Google創投認證！Google最實用的工作法────SPRINT衝刺計畫────所有產業、所有規模的企業、甚至個人都適用！5天5步驟高效率工作流程迅速解決難題．測試新構想．完成更多任務．加快工作速度《紐約時報》．亞馬遜網路書店．《華爾街日報》暢銷書《Inc.》雜誌推薦年度必讀商業書✦ Gmail、Google Search、Google X、Chrome……等知名產品的各種項目，都通過了「衝刺計畫」的考驗才推出，並且大獲成功！✦ 眾多優秀的新創公司創辦人都曾運用「衝刺計畫」做決策，包括：23andMe創辦人沃西基（Anne Wojcicki）、Twitter／Blogger ... Read more

$9.99 USD

（初版書名為《Google創投認證！SPRINT衝刺計畫》）蘋果、亞馬遜、特斯拉、Airbnb、Mercedes-Benz、American Express、Nike、IKEA等成功企業競相偷師Google創投認證！Google最實用的工作法────SPRINT衝刺計畫────所有產業、所有規模的企業、甚至個人都適用！5天5步驟高效率工作流程迅速解決難題．測試新構想．完成更多任務．加快工作速度《紐約時報》．亞馬遜網路書店．《華爾街日報》暢銷書《Inc.》雜誌推薦年度必讀商業書✦ Gmail、Google Search、Google X、Chrome……等知名產品的各種項目，都通過了「衝刺計畫」的考驗才推出，並且大獲成功！✦ 眾多優秀的新創公司創辦人都曾運用「衝刺計畫」做決策，包括：23andMe創辦人沃西基（Anne Wojcicki）、Twitter／Blogger
... Read more
Discounting the Future

The Ascendancy of a Political Technology

by Liliana Doganova ...

Series Book 7 - Near Futures
A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discountingForest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device ... Read more

$21.59 USD

A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discountingForest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device
... Read more
Lead from No

A Systematic Approach to Leadership Negotiation

by Jim Camp Jr ...

When you hear the word "negotiation," what comes to mind? Do you imagine a business agreement where both sides reach a mutually beneficial solution? Maybe you picture big deals such as sales, contracts, procurement, mergers, and acquisitions? Perhaps you also think of compromise, win-win, or getting someone to say "yes"?Would you consider "leadership" as a critical type of negotiation? If you lead ... Read more

$6.99 USD

When you hear the word "negotiation," what comes to mind? Do you imagine a business agreement where both sides reach a mutually beneficial solution? Maybe you picture big deals such as sales, contracts, procurement, mergers, and acquisitions? Perhaps you also think of compromise, win-win, or getting someone to say "yes"?Would you consider "leadership" as a critical type of negotiation? If you lead
... Read more
The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership

by Gary Burnison ...

ALL IN, ALL THE TIMEFor Gary Burnison, CEO of the world’s largest executive search firm, these five simple words perfectly capture the essence of great leadership. There can be no half measures. Complete commitment, total engagement, and a powerful sense of personal responsibility are the criteria for true leadership excellence. It’s more than a job; it’s a way of life. But how do you get there? ... Read more

$29.99 USD

ALL IN, ALL THE TIMEFor Gary Burnison, CEO of the world’s largest executive search firm, these five simple words perfectly capture the essence of great leadership. There can be no half measures. Complete commitment, total engagement, and a powerful sense of personal responsibility are the criteria for true leadership excellence. It’s more than a job; it’s a way of life. But how do you get there?
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Toyota Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach to the Principles of Toyota's Renowned System

by Ananth V. Iyer, Sridhar Seshadri, Roy Vasher ...

The Toyota Production System is the benchmark used throughout the world for “lean” thinking. Now you can model your own processes after those of the company that “wrote the book on supply chain management.”Written by two experts on the subject, along with a former Toyota senior executive, this book details the most celebrated supply chain operation in the world to help you form an integrated, ... Read more

$31.99 USD

The Toyota Production System is the benchmark used throughout the world for “lean” thinking. Now you can model your own processes after those of the company that “wrote the book on supply chain management.”Written by two experts on the subject, along with a former Toyota senior executive, this book details the most celebrated supply chain operation in the world to help you form an integrated,
... Read more
Go Big or Go Home

5 Ways to Create a Customer Experience That Will Close the Deal

by Diana Kander, Tucker Trotter ...

How do underdogs close huge deals they have no business winning? How do rainmakers pull off a sale before the RFP is ever issued? They don't do it with a logical argument or even the best PowerPoint presentation. They do it by turning their pitch into an emotional experience that makes the customer think, "This just feels right." This book is your blueprint for tapping into a client's gut feeling ... Read more

$6.99 USD

How do underdogs close huge deals they have no business winning? How do rainmakers pull off a sale before the RFP is ever issued? They don't do it with a logical argument or even the best PowerPoint presentation. They do it by turning their pitch into an emotional experience that makes the customer think, "This just feels right." This book is your blueprint for tapping into a client's gut feeling
... Read more
Passion to Profits

Business Success for New Entrepreneurs

by Rhonda Abrams, Alice LaPlante ...

Engineers, musicians, psychologists, culinary students—in just about every field, sooner or later it's likely someone will start a business. This major new book is the first to teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship regardless of the industry. Packed with business essentials and real-world advice, this unique book breaks down everything from start to finish. You’ll learn how to choose, start, ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Engineers, musicians, psychologists, culinary students—in just about every field, sooner or later it's likely someone will start a business. This major new book is the first to teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship regardless of the industry. Packed with business essentials and real-world advice, this unique book breaks down everything from start to finish. You’ll learn how to choose, start,
... Read more
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Risk Management

Get Dynamic Growth and Profitability Through Successful Risk Strategies

by Annetta Cortez ...

Manage the risk and maximize the reward!Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully.• The basic categories of business risk• How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Manage the risk and maximize the reward!Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully.• The basic categories of business risk• How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular
... Read more
FAST Creativity & Innovation

Rapidly Improving Processes, Product Development and Solving Complex Problems

by Charles Bytheway ...

FAST Creativity & Innovation is a landmark work authored by the creator of the method called Function Analysis Systems Technique (FAST) and pioneer of value engineering and value analysis. FAST is a powerful mapping technique that can graphically model goals, objectives, strategies, plans, systems, projects, products, processes, and procedures in function terms to identify function dependencies by ... Read more

$31.99 USD

FAST Creativity & Innovation is a landmark work authored by the creator of the method called Function Analysis Systems Technique (FAST) and pioneer of value engineering and value analysis. FAST is a powerful mapping technique that can graphically model goals, objectives, strategies, plans, systems, projects, products, processes, and procedures in function terms to identify function dependencies by
... Read more
Powered by Change

How to design your business for perpetual success

by Jonathan MacDonald ...

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.In a hectic business environment where it is estimated that half of the decisions that CEOs make turn out to be wrong, the stark reality is that it has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently, and develop strategies that are executed in a successful way.This is partly ... Read more

$15.99 USD

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.In a hectic business environment where it is estimated that half of the decisions that CEOs make turn out to be wrong, the stark reality is that it has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently, and develop strategies that are executed in a successful way.This is partly
... Read more
Smart Solution Book, The

68 Tools For Brainstorming, Problem Solving And Decision Making

by David Cotton ...

The Smart Solution Book explains each tool in detail – what it is, when and how to use it, its strengths and its limitations. The tools range from quick fixes, which can be used by someone working alone, to large scale solutions which can be used by groups of 100 and more. You can also use the tools separately or in combination with each other.Frame problems so they can be solvedFind a solution to ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The Smart Solution Book explains each tool in detail – what it is, when and how to use it, its strengths and its limitations. The tools range from quick fixes, which can be used by someone working alone, to large scale solutions which can be used by groups of 100 and more. You can also use the tools separately or in combination with each other.Frame problems so they can be solvedFind a solution to
... Read more
autoliderazgo y el líder al minuto

Aumente su efectividad con un autolidera

by Ken Blanchard ...

En este nuevo libro Ken Blanchard revela clara y profundamente cómo el poder, la libertad y la autonomía son el resultado de tener la actitud correcta y las destrezas necesarias para responsabilizarse del éxito personal.El clásico best seller de Ken Blanchard El mánager al minuto, explora las habilidades necesarias para convertirse en un líder personal eficiente. Ahora, en este nuevo libro revela ... Read more

$13.99 USD

En este nuevo libro Ken Blanchard revela clara y profundamente cómo el poder, la libertad y la autonomía son el resultado de tener la actitud correcta y las destrezas necesarias para responsabilizarse del éxito personal.El clásico best seller de Ken Blanchard El mánager al minuto, explora las habilidades necesarias para convertirse en un líder personal eficiente. Ahora, en este nuevo libro revela
... Read more
The Greiner Growth Model

Anticipate crises and adapt to a changing business world

by 50minutes ...

Series Book 3 - Management & Marketing
Anticipate crises and adapt to a changing business worldThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Greiner growth model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Identify the five phases of growth that every company experiences during its lifetime: creativity, direction, delegation, coordination and ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Anticipate crises and adapt to a changing business worldThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Greiner growth model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Identify the five phases of growth that every company experiences during its lifetime: creativity, direction, delegation, coordination and
... Read more
The Traveler's Summit

The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

by Andy Andrews ...

The Traveler's Summit explores the historically proven principles that have guided our greatest leaders for centuries, and how we might restore these principles in our own lives…before it's too late.Dave Ponder is back, and this time, the fate of civilization may be in his hands .Centuries of greed, pride, and hate have sent humankind hurtling toward disaster, far from our original purpose. There ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Traveler's Summit explores the historically proven principles that have guided our greatest leaders for centuries, and how we might restore these principles in our own lives…before it's too late.Dave Ponder is back, and this time, the fate of civilization may be in his hands .Centuries of greed, pride, and hate have sent humankind hurtling toward disaster, far from our original purpose. There
... Read more

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