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

Problem Solving

Guidebook for ADB-Assisted Projects

by Asian Development Bank ...

This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered in projects. The value of the OSPF approach to problem solving is recognized in resolving community ... Read more

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This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered in projects. The value of the OSPF approach to problem solving is recognized in resolving community
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Generative Collaboration

Releasing the Creative Power of Collective Intelligence

by Robert Brian Dilts ...

Series Book 2 - Success Factor Modeling
Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization to think and act in an aligned and coordinated fashionThe fruit of effective collective
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IT Governance

How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

by Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross ...

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and ... Read more

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Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and
... Read more
Self Control: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter

by ALLAN DAVIDSON ...

FIND OUT: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.In this book “SELF-CONTROL: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain ... Read more

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FIND OUT: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.In this book “SELF-CONTROL: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain
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The Patient Priority: Solve Health Care's Value Crisis by Measuring and Delivering Outcomes That Matter to Patients

by Stefan Larsson, Jennifer Clawson, Josh Kellar ...

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as ... Read more

$23.99 USD

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as
... Read more
Smarter Collaboration

A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work

by Heidi K. Gardner, Ivan A. Matviak ...

We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex world—we need to collaborate smarter.Market volatility. Sustainability demands. Hybrid working. Opportunities and hazards of fast-changing technology and regulations. Companies and nonprofits face more daunting challenges than ever. How can we collaborate in our organizations—and with outside partners—to solve problems, innovate, and ... Read more

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex world—we need to collaborate smarter.Market volatility. Sustainability demands. Hybrid working. Opportunities and hazards of fast-changing technology and regulations. Companies and nonprofits face more daunting challenges than ever. How can we collaborate in our organizations—and with outside partners—to solve problems, innovate, and
... Read more
Finding Clarity

How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives

by Marc Lesser ...

A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESSFor Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability — a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.• working with and through difficult ... Read more

$11.59 USD

A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESSFor Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability — a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.• working with and through difficult
... Read more
Getting (More of) What You Want

How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life

by Margaret A. Neale, Thomas Z. Lys ...

Two top business professors offer up "the best research and advice on negotiation" (Chip Heath)Do you know what you want? How can you make sure you get it? Or rather, how can you convince others to give it to you? Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Two top business professors offer up "the best research and advice on negotiation" (Chip Heath)Do you know what you want? How can you make sure you get it? Or rather, how can you convince others to give it to you? Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and
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意圖韌性：終止拖延萎靡的神奇之鑰！激活動機潛能，個人與團隊目標皆高效實現的強大心理力量

Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers

by 麥克．詹姆斯·羅斯、塞庫爾．斯克爾．克拉斯特夫博士、丹恩．皮拉特 ...

Translated by 謝慈 ...

Series series GC標竿學院
無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等 ... Read more

$10.99 USD

無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等
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DTMBR

Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat

by Martin Tomitsch, Madeleine Borthwick ...

This design methodology book provides over 80 different methods of design and is the perfect resource for design educators, students, and practitioners.Think of this resource as a sort of ‘refer to’ handbook when you’re stuck or need some inspiration for your latest design project or lesson. It considers the world outside of design where products are applied, to fully consider every possible ... Read more

$28.49 USD

This design methodology book provides over 80 different methods of design and is the perfect resource for design educators, students, and practitioners.Think of this resource as a sort of ‘refer to’ handbook when you’re stuck or need some inspiration for your latest design project or lesson. It considers the world outside of design where products are applied, to fully consider every possible
... Read more
The Classic Collection of Henry George. Illustrated

Progress and Poverty, Social Problems, The Condition of Labour and Others

by Henry George ...

The Classic Collection of Henry George brings together some of the most influential writings of Henry George, whose ideas played a major role in shaping debates about wealth, land ownership, and economic justice in the late nineteenth century. This illustrated edition includes his landmark work Progress and Poverty, as well as important essays and lectures such as Social Problems, The Condition of ... Read more

$0.99 USD

The Classic Collection of Henry George brings together some of the most influential writings of Henry George, whose ideas played a major role in shaping debates about wealth, land ownership, and economic justice in the late nineteenth century. This illustrated edition includes his landmark work Progress and Poverty, as well as important essays and lectures such as Social Problems, The Condition of
... Read more
The Resilient Leader

Life Changing Strategies to Overcome Today's Turmoil and Tomorrow's Uncertainty

by Christine Perakis ...

Series series Ignite Reads
A simple guide to surviving and thriving in difficult situations, The Resilient Leader is the perfect tool to empower yourself and successfully lead through challenges.Everyone has encountered their own version of a Category 5 storm—whether it's the coronavirus pandemic, launching a new business, drowning in debt, enduring an emotional crisis, or actual flooding in the streets. But events that ... Read more

$8.69 USD

A simple guide to surviving and thriving in difficult situations, The Resilient Leader is the perfect tool to empower yourself and successfully lead through challenges.Everyone has encountered their own version of a Category 5 storm—whether it's the coronavirus pandemic, launching a new business, drowning in debt, enduring an emotional crisis, or actual flooding in the streets. But events that
... Read more
Bring Your "A" Game

The 10 Career Secrets of the High Achiever

by Robert J McGovern ...

The first 10 years of your career can often be the "make it or break it" period. Bring Your "A" Game shows you how to define your career plan early on, with sound advice on how to acquire the critical building blocks and time-tested workplace skills you need to get ahead.Throughout his career, Rob McGovern has employed and mentored hundreds of young professionals. In Bring Your "A" Game, he shares ... Read more

$14.39 USD

The first 10 years of your career can often be the "make it or break it" period. Bring Your "A" Game shows you how to define your career plan early on, with sound advice on how to acquire the critical building blocks and time-tested workplace skills you need to get ahead.Throughout his career, Rob McGovern has employed and mentored hundreds of young professionals. In Bring Your "A" Game, he shares
... Read more
Business Model Book, The

Design, Build And Adapt Business Ideas That Drive Business Growth

by Adam Bock ...

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Adam Bock is a research academic, serial entrepreneur, and professional financier and venture consultant. As an academic, he has studied business models globally, from the US and UK to Russia and India, and has published highly cited articles about business models, including the first large-scale global study of business model innovation. As Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at The University of
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The Interviewer's Book

Hiring the Right Person

by Mary Hanson, Brian McIvor ...

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a ... Read more

$10.00 USD

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions.The Interviewer’s Book:Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a
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Startup Myths and Models

What You Won't Learn in Business School

by Rizwan Virk ...

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the
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Productive Tensions

How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

by Christopher B. Bingham, Rory M. McDonald ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation
... Read more
Acclimated to Africa

Cultural Competence for Westerners

by Debbi DiGennaro ...

Series Book 45 - Publications in Ethnography
Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West.
... Read more
Business Model Innovation

Concepts, Analysis, and Cases

by Allan Afuah ...

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals ... Read more

$125.99 USD

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals
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AI-Born

The Machine Core

by Mehran Granfar ...

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any
... Read more
Good Decisions for Strange Situations

A guide to making the right choices

by Dr Sheheryar Banuri ...

Good decisions are hard to make - agreed? Whether it's deciding what kind of take-away to order, what brand of shampoo to buy, or what to do in a crisis, we've all been in situations where we panic or overthink.And now, more than ever, we are in unfamiliar territory. Our routines and norms have been completely disrupted, replaced by stress and anxiety and making a good decision is harder than ever ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Good decisions are hard to make - agreed? Whether it's deciding what kind of take-away to order, what brand of shampoo to buy, or what to do in a crisis, we've all been in situations where we panic or overthink.And now, more than ever, we are in unfamiliar territory. Our routines and norms have been completely disrupted, replaced by stress and anxiety and making a good decision is harder than ever
... Read more
The Value Flywheel Effect

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

by David Anderson ...

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to
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The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook: 50+ Frameworks and Prompts to Automate Your Decision Making

AI leadership, #1

by Pierce Sterling ...

Series Book 1 - AI leadership
Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making
... Read more
The Mini-Book on Use Cases: All You Need but Short

The Simplifying Series

by Alistair Cockburn ...

Series series The Simplifying Series
Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the ... Read more

$8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the
... Read more

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