Decision Making category: 1513 books
African Friends and Money Matters, Second Edition
Observations from Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
African Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. Africans have just as many frustrations relating to Westerners in their midst. Each manages money, time, and relationships in very different ways, often creating friction and...
Beyond the Idea
How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book.
Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are...
How to Coach
Coaching Yourself and Your Team to Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Great managers do more than manage their teams. They coach their teams to top performance. They help everyone get better at what they do, improving productivity, boosting motivation and sharing knowledge and expertise.
How to Coach is the essential book for all managers and leaders....
by Subir Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Quality guru Subir Chowdhury introduces his groundbreaking new process
In The Power of LEO, Chowdhury outlines a simple, three-part strategy for building continuous quality improvement every business operation, which he calls LEO: Listen to your customers and employees; Enrich your company...
by Brian Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In most workplaces today, meetings have become--at worst--dreaded, meaningless, and a waste of time, and at best, a necessary evil. Neither should be acceptable to management! All meetings should be powerful tools for solving problems, making decisions, exchanging ideas, and getting results fast....
Creating Great Choices
A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking
When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need?...
Leadership
For Active Creative Engaged Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
If communities are to tackle complex issues and support the transformational change needed for an uncertain future, a new and different kind of leadership is required. This book provides the practical how-to for making it a reality. Presented as six competencies for community leadership, each is expanded...
by Timothy J. Kloppenborg PhD, PMP, Arthur Shriberg EdD
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This book traces the development of project leadership as fundamental to completing projects effectively, delineates the leadership tasks that must be accomplished at each step of a project's life, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions both by learning the ramifications of certain decisions and by seeing how those decisions are made in an example project.
Swarm Intelligence
What Nature Teaches Us About Shaping Creative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Companies and organizations everywhere cite creativity as the most desirable - and elusive - leadership quality of the future. Yet scores measuring creativity among American children have been on the wane for decades. A specialist in creative leadership, professor James Haywood Rolling, Jr. knows...
by Sylvie McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Tired of being a slave to the clock? Do you hate that the only way to make more money is to put in more hours?A few years ago, Sylvie McCracken was was in your shoes. She rolled up her sleeves in her evenings and weekends and with some trial and error she started generating consistent passive...
The Power of Business Process Improvement
10 Simple Steps to Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Adaptability
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Are you baffled by how your department can keep making the same mistakes? Do you feel you have been climbing an unending, uphill battle trying to focus your employees’ limited time on more valuable work? You’re not alone! In fact, these obstacles are so common in business that the solution to...
by Ellen M. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Here is the perfect volume for graphic designers who want real-life advice for long-term success. Renowned designer Ellen Shapiro reveals time-tested tricks of the trade—for making sure the clients you want to work with know about you, become your clients, and work with you productively. Then, in...
Risky Business
Unlocking Unconscious Biases in Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Making decisions can be tough, but how do you know it's the right one and how can you be sure that unconscious biases aren't distorting your thinking? In Risky Business, Anna Withers and Mark Withers draw on decades of research in the fields of psychology, behavioral economics and neuroscience to...
Creative Genius
An Innovation Guide for Business Leaders, Border Crossers and Game Changers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Time and space. Genetics and robotics. Education and fashion. Possibilities limited only by our imaginations. The future is yours to create. Could you be the Leonardo da Vinci of our times?
Most ideas are incremental, quickly copied and suffocated by conventions. "Future back" thinking...