Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
Challenge the Ordinary
Why Revolutionary Companies Abandon Conventional Mindsets, Question Long-Held Assumptions, and Kill Their Sacred Cows
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
There’s little room for error in today’s global economy. It does not allow for mediocrity; the rules and players have changed; and ordinary simply won’t work anymore. If companies don’t have the best products and services and the top people delivering them, their competition will—and they...
The Neo-Generalist
Where you go is who you are
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
We live in a world of hyper specialism, losing context and our connection to the surrounding region breaks down. The expertise we valued so highly has served to narrow and shorten our vision. It has blinded us to potential and opportunity.
This book argues that there is the need and place for...
Mastering Services Pricing
Designing pricing that works for you and for your clients
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The definitive guide on how to price services to deliver profit, fund for product development and meet the needs of the customer/client at a price they are happy to pay.
As traditional manufacturing companies move to service provision, how should they price their services?
What pricing...
How to Ask the Smart Questions for Winning the Games of Career and Life
Career Savvy People Skills, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” — Albert Einstein
Ever feel that you’re being moved as a pawn in the games others are playing around you? Ever get the sense that you’re not winning— maybe not even aware of — the subtle...
A Taste of Irrationality
Sample chapters from Predictably Irrational and Upside of Irrationality
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Sample chapters from Predictably Irrational and Upside of Irrationality.
Predictably Irrational
Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin?
Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five...
Dealstorming
The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Sales genius is a team sport.
As a B2B sales leader, you know that by Murphy’s Law, despite your team's best efforts, some deals will inevitably get stuck or key relationships will go sour. And too often, it's the most important ones—the last thing you need when millions of dollars are on the...
Mindsharing
The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Whether we need to make better financial choices, find the love of our life, or transform our career, crowdsourcing is the key to making quicker, wiser, more objective decisions. But few of us even come close to tapping the full potential of our online personal networks. Lior Zoref offers proven guidelines...
Creative Strategy
A Guide for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern neuroscience tells us about how creative ideas form in the human mind. In his new book, Creative Strategy, Duggan offers a step-by-step guide to help...
by Ed Bernacki
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Wow! That’s a great idea! We like to use this expression. These are the ideas we want to have.You know it is a great idea. Others look at the idea and they see that it is a great idea. It may solve the problem. It may create an opportunity. It captures the essence of good design thinking. Great...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This is a Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book...
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 Max Muller
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Inventory management is about more than counting what you've got. It's about understanding business realities and making decisions that balance current demand with future needs-while keeping overhead and operating costs to a minimum. Now in its Second Edition, Essentials of Inventory Management gives...
Leading with Courage
Daily Reminders for the Decision Maker
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Even the greatest leaders get distracted by the less meaningful details of daily life and lose sight of what is important. At their worst, we see leaders get way off course and rationalize unethical or illegal activity, and at their best, we see leaders distracted by the day-to-day minutia, losing...
Financial Analysis: Third Edition
A Business Decision Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Financial Analysis: A Business Decision Guide describes how to extract meaningful information from the financial statements of a business. The book also delves into a number of analyses that can be used to improve business decisions, such as price optimization, constraint management, and credit granting....