Decision Making category: 1513 books
Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement
Decision Support Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While many social, economic, and political changes have occurred recently in internet public procurement and its decision support systems, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement. Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems brings together...
The Go Point
How to Get Off the Fence by Knowing What to Do and When to Do It
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Go Point—the moment of truth when you have to say “yes” or “no” when it’s time to get off the fence.
Michael Useem—through dramatic storytelling—shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point,...
by Ronald Warren
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
An Evidence-Based Approach to Personality and Leadership
A leader’s bullying and constant dismissal of his team’s concerns nearly take down an entire company—and the global financial system. The U.S. Government has to provide a $182 billion bailout. A new CEO transforms a near-bankrupt...
Decide
Better Ways of Making Better Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Life presents us with a steady stream of decisions that we have to make. So, like it or not, we need to practice this skill every day - at work, at home, and in every aspect of our lives. Yet, we often make decisions without properly considering the context, options and implications of our actions....
by Chrispin Pettang, Marcelline Blanche Manjia, F. Henry Abanda
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The continued growth of emerging nations depends largely on the development of their built infrastructures and communities. Roads, dams, bridges, hospitals, schools, and housing are all examples of the built environment that impacts economic improvements in the developing world. Decision Support for...
Effective Group Problem Solving
How to Broaden Particpation, Improve Decision Making, and Increase Commitment to Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book provides a set of easy to use and proven techniques and procedures for conducting problem solving meetings more efficiently and productively, with less frustration, effort, and conflict. William M. Fox presents an approach to group problem solving—the Improved Nominal Group Technique (INGT)—that...
What Did We Know? What Did We Do?
Making decisions in large organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In July 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. One hundred and eleven people lost their lives and numerous others were seriously injured.The accident was initiated by a small metallurgical defect in an engine rotating part. That engine was manufactured by General Electric Aircraft...
by Ian Coombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The Deductive Detective is a modern fable from the international speaker and bestselling author on decision-making, Ian Coombe.
It is a story that describes a key strategy that can be used for making decisions and how it can help solve complex problems.
Ideal for youth, families, schools, managers and leaders.
Super Thinking
The Big Book of Mental Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!
"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
You've got to have models in your head."
- Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire...
Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems....
by Greg Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018
Value Added Auditing – 4th Edition (550 pages) is a process and risk based manual for performance audits, risk management, ISO management system and risk based audits.
The manual can be used to conduct performance, operational, IT, cyber, and supply management assessments. The objective of...
Performing Under Pressure
The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce us to the...
The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin...
Sway
The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.
Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone...