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

Future-Proofing You

Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling your Destiny in an Uncertain World

by Jay Samit ...

With the right mindset and insight, anyone can become a millionaire.Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn't make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your Destiny in an Uncertain World is for you.In this life-changing book, celebrated author ... Read more

$17.00 USD

With the right mindset and insight, anyone can become a millionaire.Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn't make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your Destiny in an Uncertain World is for you.In this life-changing book, celebrated author
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Not to Scale

How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible

by Jamer Hunt ...

From small decisions that paralyze us to big data that knows everything about us, Not to Scale is a thought-provoking guide to navigating the surprising complexities of a networked age when the things that are now shaping experience have no weight or size.The dictionary defines "scale" as a range of numbers, used as a system to measure or compare things. We use this concept in every aspect of our ... Read more

$15.99 USD

From small decisions that paralyze us to big data that knows everything about us, Not to Scale is a thought-provoking guide to navigating the surprising complexities of a networked age when the things that are now shaping experience have no weight or size.The dictionary defines "scale" as a range of numbers, used as a system to measure or compare things. We use this concept in every aspect of our
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Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work

by Russell Bishop, David Allen ...

Master the Art of the Workaround to Boost Your Productivity!“With the variety of challenges leaders face every day, Russell Bishop has hit on an amazingly simple and highly effective solution: the ‘workaround.’ This is a brilliant approach to facing day-to-day business challenges, and it works!”—Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Master the Art of the Workaround to Boost Your Productivity!“With the variety of challenges leaders face every day, Russell Bishop has hit on an amazingly simple and highly effective solution: the ‘workaround.’ This is a brilliant approach to facing day-to-day business challenges, and it works!”—Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo
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HBR Guide to Critical Thinking

by Harvard Business Review ...

Series series HBR Guide
Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know you're taking the right path?The answer is in how you think. The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know you're taking the right path?The answer is in how you think. The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from
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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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The Investor's Guidebook to Equities

Equity Pricing, Trading, and Investing

by Stuart R. Veale ...

A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments.This authoritative guide provides all the information that both the professional and individual investor will need to succeed in today’s equity market, including:• The role that equities play in a company's capital structure and in a portfolio• Determining and optimizing a company's weighted average cost of capital• The ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A concise, yet comprehensive, guidebook to understanding equity investments.This authoritative guide provides all the information that both the professional and individual investor will need to succeed in today’s equity market, including:• The role that equities play in a company's capital structure and in a portfolio• Determining and optimizing a company's weighted average cost of capital• 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
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Sparking Creativity

How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design

by Barry Kudrowitz ...

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice.Sparking Creativity provides empirically supported methods for embracing the often ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice.Sparking Creativity provides empirically supported methods for embracing the often
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The Talent Manifesto: How Disrupting People Strategies Maximizes Business Results

How Disrupting People Strategies Maximizes Business Results

by RJ Heckman ...

Rethink Everything You Know about Managing Talent in Today’s Disruptive LandscapeA Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry (KF)—the world’s largest talent advisory and executive search firm—RJ Heckman has helped many of today’s most successful companies develop talent-management strategies that ensure corporate success through good times and bad. Now, he shares his breakthrough methods with you.The Talent ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Rethink Everything You Know about Managing Talent in Today’s Disruptive LandscapeA Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry (KF)—the world’s largest talent advisory and executive search firm—RJ Heckman has helped many of today’s most successful companies develop talent-management strategies that ensure corporate success through good times and bad. Now, he shares his breakthrough methods with you.The Talent
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專注的力量：不再分心的自我鍛鍊，讓你掌握AI世代的卓越關鍵（全新修訂譯本）

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

by 丹尼爾．高曼(Daniel Goleman), 周曉琪 ...

暢銷全球10週年╳全新修訂譯本．經典重現《商業周刊》推薦《紐約時報》暢銷書《金融時報》、《Booklist》好評推薦「專注力」是這個時代最稀缺的心靈資產，也是天賦、財富、階級都無法獨占的強大力量！分心時代你最需要的一本書，工作者自我提升的最佳鍛鍊。＊避開數位分心陷阱，讓專注力引領你邁向卓越！1996年，丹尼爾．高曼以重量級鉅作《EQ》揭示超越IQ的心智力量，掀起狂潮；如今，在這個全球失焦的分心年代，高曼再次以突破性觀點檢視今日最稀缺的資源、帶來高績效與成就的祕密──專注力。心理學家高曼在本書中統整各種變化形式的專注力，探論此種攸關你我一生榮枯的心靈資產。專注力的運作有如肌肉──不用會退化，愈鍛鍊則愈茁壯。勤於鍛鍊專注力，是在所有競爭中脫穎而出的不二法門。高曼以其在心理學領域深耕數十年之基礎，去簡化繁，精確指出專注力的三種形式：．內在（inner）的專注：察覺自身的想法和感受，正確釐清事.. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

暢銷全球10週年╳全新修訂譯本．經典重現《商業周刊》推薦《紐約時報》暢銷書《金融時報》、《Booklist》好評推薦「專注力」是這個時代最稀缺的心靈資產，也是天賦、財富、階級都無法獨占的強大力量！分心時代你最需要的一本書，工作者自我提升的最佳鍛鍊。＊避開數位分心陷阱，讓專注力引領你邁向卓越！1996年，丹尼爾．高曼以重量級鉅作《EQ》揭示超越IQ的心智力量，掀起狂潮；如今，在這個全球失焦的分心年代，高曼再次以突破性觀點檢視今日最稀缺的資源、帶來高績效與成就的祕密──專注力。心理學家高曼在本書中統整各種變化形式的專注力，探論此種攸關你我一生榮枯的心靈資產。專注力的運作有如肌肉──不用會退化，愈鍛鍊則愈茁壯。勤於鍛鍊專注力，是在所有競爭中脫穎而出的不二法門。高曼以其在心理學領域深耕數十年之基礎，去簡化繁，精確指出專注力的三種形式：．內在（inner）的專注：察覺自身的想法和感受，正確釐清事..
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Finding Insight

Discovering the Non-Obvious Obvious Connection to Why People Do What They Do

by Melinda Spaulding, Mitch Tull ...

Finding Insight delves into the essential yet often misunderstood process of insight discovery.This valuable guide is for anyone seeking to comprehend the motivations behind human behavior. Unlike previous works which explored 'what' and 'why,' Finding Insights uniquely illuminates 'how,’ equipping people with the analytical tools and mindset necessary for unveiling and utilizing insights ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Finding Insight delves into the essential yet often misunderstood process of insight discovery.This valuable guide is for anyone seeking to comprehend the motivations behind human behavior. Unlike previous works which explored 'what' and 'why,' Finding Insights uniquely illuminates 'how,’ equipping people with the analytical tools and mindset necessary for unveiling and utilizing insights
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Intuition

How to Develop it and Use it in Everyday Life

by Dr Cate Howell, OAM, CSM, CF ...

Series Book 7 - Empower
Intuition is something most people would have experienced at one time or another; it’s that gut-feeling or ‘sixth sense’. It’s instinctive by nature, independent of rational analysis or deductive thinking. But can we actively develop our intuition and learn how to better utilise it? Author Dr Cate Howell believes we can, and sets about to empower us to use intuition in everyday life. Intuition is ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Intuition is something most people would have experienced at one time or another; it’s that gut-feeling or ‘sixth sense’. It’s instinctive by nature, independent of rational analysis or deductive thinking. But can we actively develop our intuition and learn how to better utilise it? Author Dr Cate Howell believes we can, and sets about to empower us to use intuition in everyday life. Intuition is
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Teams That Meet the Moment

9 Practices for Unlocking Performance and Growth in Uncertain Times

by Karina Mangu-Ward ...

Unlock Your Team's Full Potential in Turbulent Times.In today's uncertain world, even the smartest companies struggle-not for lack of strategy or talent, but because their people are bogged down by the messy reality of modern teamwork. Teams That Meet the Moment is a radically practical guide to fixing how work actually gets done inside complex organizations, drawn from a decade of hands-on ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Unlock Your Team's Full Potential in Turbulent Times.In today's uncertain world, even the smartest companies struggle-not for lack of strategy or talent, but because their people are bogged down by the messy reality of modern teamwork. Teams That Meet the Moment is a radically practical guide to fixing how work actually gets done inside complex organizations, drawn from a decade of hands-on
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Negotiation

A Very Short Introduction

by Carrie Menkel-Meadow ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families, and interpersonal
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The Insight-Driven Leader

How High-Performing Companies are Using Analytics to Unlock Business Value

by Jenny Dearborn, Kelly Rider ...

How to harness the data already in your company to solve your business problemsIn today's fast-paced world, data is everywhere—but only actionable insights can drive real success. The Insight-Driven Leader offers a practical guide to transforming raw data into powerful workforce insights that solve critical business challenges. Through clear frameworks, compelling case studies, and proven ... Read more

$18.00 USD

How to harness the data already in your company to solve your business problemsIn today's fast-paced world, data is everywhere—but only actionable insights can drive real success. The Insight-Driven Leader offers a practical guide to transforming raw data into powerful workforce insights that solve critical business challenges. Through clear frameworks, compelling case studies, and proven
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Think Talk Create

Building Workplaces Fit For Humans

by David Brendel, Ryan Stelzer ...

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What ... Read more

$16.99 USD

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What
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Frame It Again

New Tools for Rational Decision-Making

by José Luis Bermúdez ...

Framing effects are everywhere. An estate tax looks very different to a death tax. Gun safety seems to be one thing and gun control another. Yet, the consensus from decision theorists, finance professionals, psychologists, and economists is that frame-dependence is completely irrational. This book challenges that view. Some of the toughest decisions we face are just clashes between different ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Framing effects are everywhere. An estate tax looks very different to a death tax. Gun safety seems to be one thing and gun control another. Yet, the consensus from decision theorists, finance professionals, psychologists, and economists is that frame-dependence is completely irrational. This book challenges that view. Some of the toughest decisions we face are just clashes between different
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Flip

How Counter-Intuitive Thinking is Changi

by Peter Sheahan ...

$8.99 USD
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

$28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge

How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

by John Willis ...

From the birth of modern industry, to winning WWII, to Japan’s Economic Miracle, W. Edwards Deming helped shape some of the most profound moments in modern history. Deming, an American engineer and statistician, is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of quality management. But his teachings go beyond quality management; they influence not only how we work today, but also how we ... Read more

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From the birth of modern industry, to winning WWII, to Japan’s Economic Miracle, W. Edwards Deming helped shape some of the most profound moments in modern history. Deming, an American engineer and statistician, is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of quality management. But his teachings go beyond quality management; they influence not only how we work today, but also how we
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BCG破解轉型的兩難：解答商模、布局、人才、變革，企業策略選擇的轉骨配方

by 徐瑞廷, 商業周刊 ...

BCG董事總經理徐瑞廷X 11堂轉型實戰課一家新創、一道難題、一張決策藍圖解答商模、布局、人才、變革，企業策略選擇的轉骨配方全觀式策略邏輯 × 微觀式落地實務，由點而面，對應實踐模型圖表ALPHA Camp、 AmazingTalker、 Appier、 CloudMile、 CoolBitx、Gogolook、Greenvines、iCHEF、iKala、Pinkoi、TFT11位創業者與BCG徐瑞廷的策略思考對談實錄「根據BCG研究，龍頭企業如果錯過1次市場轉變的契機，就會損失3到5年的發展時間，足以把領先地位拱手讓人。假如錯過2次變革契機，那企業就真的岌岌可危了。」——徐瑞廷素材源自商周2022年《新創的兩難》專欄及podcast，訪台灣11家知名新創的負責人，分享轉型的心路歷程及種種挑戰。專欄主持人徐瑞廷（JT）則以BCG過去輔導企業的經驗，提出邏輯化思考... ... Read more

$9.99 USD

BCG董事總經理徐瑞廷X 11堂轉型實戰課一家新創、一道難題、一張決策藍圖解答商模、布局、人才、變革，企業策略選擇的轉骨配方全觀式策略邏輯 × 微觀式落地實務，由點而面，對應實踐模型圖表ALPHA Camp、 AmazingTalker、 Appier、 CloudMile、 CoolBitx、Gogolook、Greenvines、iCHEF、iKala、Pinkoi、TFT11位創業者與BCG徐瑞廷的策略思考對談實錄「根據BCG研究，龍頭企業如果錯過1次市場轉變的契機，就會損失3到5年的發展時間，足以把領先地位拱手讓人。假如錯過2次變革契機，那企業就真的岌岌可危了。」——徐瑞廷素材源自商周2022年《新創的兩難》專欄及podcast，訪台灣11家知名新創的負責人，分享轉型的心路歷程及種種挑戰。專欄主持人徐瑞廷（JT）則以BCG過去輔導企業的經驗，提出邏輯化思考...
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BECOMING A MORE SUCCESSFUL SUPERVISOR

TAKING GREATER RESPONSIBILITIES

by Christian Okoli ...

In simple words, leadership/supervisor is about taking risks and challenging the status quo. Leaders motivate others to achieve something new and better. Interestingly, leaders do what they do to pursue innovation, not as an obligation. They measure success by looking at the team's achievements and learning.Supervision can help create a more supportive, caring and positive working environment, as ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In simple words, leadership/supervisor is about taking risks and challenging the status quo. Leaders motivate others to achieve something new and better. Interestingly, leaders do what they do to pursue innovation, not as an obligation. They measure success by looking at the team's achievements and learning.Supervision can help create a more supportive, caring and positive working environment, as
... Read more
Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops

The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

by Sheilah O'Brien ...

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better, but don’t know how. The author, an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits, speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop ... Read more

$65.99 USD

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better, but don’t know how. The author, an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits, speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop
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The Competitive Power of the Product Lifecycle

Revolutionise the way you sell your products

by 50minutes ...

Series Book 2 - Management & Marketing
The fundamental stages behind every productThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and applying the concept of product lifecycle, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the theory of the product lifecycle and the features of each of the four phases: launch, growth, maturity and decline• Learn how to make ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The fundamental stages behind every productThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and applying the concept of product lifecycle, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the theory of the product lifecycle and the features of each of the four phases: launch, growth, maturity and decline• Learn how to make
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