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

Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers

by Ginger Levin DPA, PMP, PgMP ...

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety
... Read more
Startups and Downs

The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs

by Mona Bijoor ...

Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and
... Read more
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
... Read more
Growth Champions

The Battle for Sustained Innovation Leadership

by The Growth Agenda ...

Unique insights and fresh perspectives on business growth and innovationGrowth is a priority for most businesses, but one that's elusive and difficult to achieve. But some companies do it well, delivering sustainable growth year after year. What makes those companies so special? And what can you and your business learn from them?Growth Champions looks at 20 leading global organizations and ... Read more

$23.00 USD

Unique insights and fresh perspectives on business growth and innovationGrowth is a priority for most businesses, but one that's elusive and difficult to achieve. But some companies do it well, delivering sustainable growth year after year. What makes those companies so special? And what can you and your business learn from them?Growth Champions looks at 20 leading global organizations and
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Building Design Strategy

Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives

by Thomas Lockwood, Thomas Walton ...

How can design be used to solve business problems? That's the question answered, in many innovative ways, by Building Design Strategy. Mark Dziersk, EunSool Kwon, Arnold Levin, Laura Weiss, and many more top-name contributors share their experience and insights. Topics explore the full range of issues today, including thinking ahead; adapting to challenges; developing tangible strategies; using ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How can design be used to solve business problems? That's the question answered, in many innovative ways, by Building Design Strategy. Mark Dziersk, EunSool Kwon, Arnold Levin, Laura Weiss, and many more top-name contributors share their experience and insights. Topics explore the full range of issues today, including thinking ahead; adapting to challenges; developing tangible strategies; using
... Read more
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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Creative Construction

The DNA of Sustained Innovation

by Gary P. Pisano ...

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable ... Read more

$18.99 USD

This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable
... Read more
The Go Point

How to Get Off the Fence by Knowing What to Do and When to Do It

by Michael Useem ...

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, where actions—or lack of them—determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries.• Why on earth did Robert E. Lee ... Read more

$4.99 USD

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, where actions—or lack of them—determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries.• Why on earth did Robert E. Lee
... Read more
Strategy for the Corporate Level

Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions

by Andrew Campbell, Michael Goold, Marcus Alexander, Jo Whitehead ...

A revised edition of the bestselling classicThis book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers can make: which businesses or markets to enter, how much to invest in each business, how to select and ... Read more

$50.00 USD

A revised edition of the bestselling classicThis book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers can make: which businesses or markets to enter, how much to invest in each business, how to select and
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Rescue the Problem Project

A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure

by Todd C. Williams ...

This one-of-a-kind guide provides project managers, executives, and customers alike with an in-depth start-to-finish process that ensure win-win solutions when things go awry.Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries to help them bring projects back from the brink of disaster. Now, in a market full of how-tos on the task of running a project, he ... Read more

$11.99 USD

This one-of-a-kind guide provides project managers, executives, and customers alike with an in-depth start-to-finish process that ensure win-win solutions when things go awry.Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries to help them bring projects back from the brink of disaster. Now, in a market full of how-tos on the task of running a project, he
... Read more
亞馬遜貝佐斯的外星人思維法

快速輸出各種創意，工作不再焦慮，給你源源不絕的問題解決力

by 西羅．布凱, 尚－路易．巴梭, 麥克．韋德 ...

Series series 實戰商學院
在天才眼裡，怪異是能力，發呆是紀律，浪費時間才有創意！　　►百萬暢銷書《獲利世代》、《思考的藝術》作者聯名推薦。　　►瑞士洛桑管理學院10年研究大公開。分析50多個案例，破解成功祕徑。　　►收錄「外星人思維」檢測表，10種創意練習，讓靈感隨叫隨到。　　「大家一起腦力激盪，但爭相提供意見後，問題反而更複雜了！」　　「這個點子明明超棒！主管不了解就算了，幹嘛還拼命打槍？」　　「明明已經每天加班花時間思考了，怎麼想都還是跳不出老方法！」　　如果有上述困擾，那你應該換一顆「外星人」的腦。　　★ 靈感可以製造！只要你「廢」得夠科學　　我們總將豐富的想像力與靈感和天才畫上等號，　　好像創意是種天分，天生注定沒有，再怎麼努力都無濟於事。　　但愛因斯坦曾說：「創意是浪費時間時的殘餘物。」　　換言之，正因為你不懂如何正確地「浪費時間」，靈感才沒辦法說來就來。　　神經學家馬庫斯．賴希勒（Marcus... ... Read more

$9.99 USD

在天才眼裡，怪異是能力，發呆是紀律，浪費時間才有創意！　　►百萬暢銷書《獲利世代》、《思考的藝術》作者聯名推薦。　　►瑞士洛桑管理學院10年研究大公開。分析50多個案例，破解成功祕徑。　　►收錄「外星人思維」檢測表，10種創意練習，讓靈感隨叫隨到。　　「大家一起腦力激盪，但爭相提供意見後，問題反而更複雜了！」　　「這個點子明明超棒！主管不了解就算了，幹嘛還拼命打槍？」　　「明明已經每天加班花時間思考了，怎麼想都還是跳不出老方法！」　　如果有上述困擾，那你應該換一顆「外星人」的腦。　　★ 靈感可以製造！只要你「廢」得夠科學　　我們總將豐富的想像力與靈感和天才畫上等號，　　好像創意是種天分，天生注定沒有，再怎麼努力都無濟於事。　　但愛因斯坦曾說：「創意是浪費時間時的殘餘物。」　　換言之，正因為你不懂如何正確地「浪費時間」，靈感才沒辦法說來就來。　　神經學家馬庫斯．賴希勒（Marcus...
... Read more
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
Beating the Dow Completely Revised and Updated

A High-Return, Low-Risk Method for Investing in the Dow Jones Industrial Stocks with as Little as $5,000

by John Downes, Michael B. O'Higgins ...

In 1991, Michael B. O'Higgins, one of the nation's top money managers, turned the investment world upside down with an ingenious strategy, showing how all investors--from those with only $5,000 to invest to millionaires--could beat the pros 95% of the time by putting 100% of their equity investment into the high-yield, low-risk "dog" stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. His formula spawned ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In 1991, Michael B. O'Higgins, one of the nation's top money managers, turned the investment world upside down with an ingenious strategy, showing how all investors--from those with only $5,000 to invest to millionaires--could beat the pros 95% of the time by putting 100% of their equity investment into the high-yield, low-risk "dog" stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. His formula spawned
... Read more
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
... Read more
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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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
Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management

by F. Robert Jacobs, William Berry, D. Clay Whybark, Thomas Vollmann ...

The definitive guide to manufacturing planning and control--FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE CPIM EXAMImprove supply chain effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability with help from this authoritative resource. Completely up-to-date, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: APICS/CPIM Certification Edition offers comprehensive preparation for the ... Read more

$49.49 USD

The definitive guide to manufacturing planning and control--FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE CPIM EXAMImprove supply chain effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability with help from this authoritative resource. Completely up-to-date, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: APICS/CPIM Certification Edition offers comprehensive preparation for the
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The Little Book of Data

Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Fuel AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World

by Justin Evans ...

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and
... Read more
Task-based intranet content

a step by step guide to user-centred design

by Lizzie Bruce ...

Series Book 1 - Practical user-centred design
“Really good stuff from someone who knows her intranets.” – Tom Loosemore, digital transformation consultant at Public Digital, ex-GDS, ex-BBC.Create content that makes it faster for people to find what they need on the intranet than from a colleague. Learn user-centred design as you progress through this practical, stage by stage guide.Generally, people want information about a specific thing, ... Read more

$20.14 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“Really good stuff from someone who knows her intranets.” – Tom Loosemore, digital transformation consultant at Public Digital, ex-GDS, ex-BBC.Create content that makes it faster for people to find what they need on the intranet than from a colleague. Learn user-centred design as you progress through this practical, stage by stage guide.Generally, people want information about a specific thing,
... Read more
Diaminds

Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers

by Mihnea Moldoveanu, Roger L. Martin ...

Series series Rotman-UTP Publishing
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon case studies and interviews - as well as theories and ... Read more

$29.99 USD

What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon case studies and interviews - as well as theories and
... Read more
Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game

by Touraj Parang ...

An exit strategy, if implemented early, is the surprising secret to ultimate startup success. Find out why—and how to develop one—in this comprehensive, practical guide from veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker Touraj Parang.In 2008, Touraj Parang's award-winning startup, Jaxtr, had 10 million users, raised nearly $20 million from top-tier Silicon Valley investors, and seemed poised to sail straight ... Read more

$23.99 USD

An exit strategy, if implemented early, is the surprising secret to ultimate startup success. Find out why—and how to develop one—in this comprehensive, practical guide from veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker Touraj Parang.In 2008, Touraj Parang's award-winning startup, Jaxtr, had 10 million users, raised nearly $20 million from top-tier Silicon Valley investors, and seemed poised to sail straight
... 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
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