Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom"-a...

By the bestselling author of The One Minute Manager, a business parable that teaches organizations to cope successfully with change. Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives - often big, expensive ones - designed to...

Malcom Gladwell's bestselling books have engaged, entertained and inspired millions of readers, transforming the way they see the world and covering a wide range of modern day issues, from success to relationships and the complexities of our minds. This...

Are you a good boss--or a great one?Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046756Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creative director Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas...

Switch on the business news and you will probably be bombarded with yet more workplace experts telling you that everyone nowadays is grossly overworked, madly juggling their work-life balance until they finally keel over and die from the sheer stress of...

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger:...

The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known...

Discover how to achieve business goals by relying on high-quality, robust data In Data Quality: Empowering Businesses with Analytics and AI, veteran data and analytics professional delivers a practical and hands-on discussion on how to accelerate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497864Author Marshall GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CurrencyPublisher CurrencyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm

How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes...

Learn how to take risks, thrive and build your dream career.'Sukhinder is one of Silicon Valley's most well-respected leaders. Her unique style of authenticity, optimism and hustle will help anyone unlock their career potential' - Eric Schmidt, former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534291Author Gary A. KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2011 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780374275631Author Daniel KahnemanFormat HardbackPage...

A revolutionary approach to bringing data and business togetherData is lazy. It sits in files or databases, minding its own business but not accomplishing very much. Data is like someone in their mid-twenties, living with their parents, who won't get off...

A tried and tested formula for business planning What is the one thing you need to know in business? What's the single most important aspect of business to master in order to succeed and grow? It has to be planning. Whether you're sitting down to plan a...

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can...

Convert the promise of big data into real world results There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works - that much is obvious. But is a basic understanding of the theory enough to hold your own in strategy...

Meet Justin Campbell. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company...

'Informs, engages and, above all, entertains' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of HabitNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath asks what happens when we take our thinking upstream and try to prevent problems before they happen.What...

This book is based on the author's lengthy experience in creating communities and helping organizations and individuals thereby providing for evangelism and sustained growth. The result is dynamic marketing and sales at low, or no, cost of acquisition...

All systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why.RESILIENCE is a book about how the world works. It covers business, economic, geographic and social systems in a thrillingly readable narrative. A wealth of absorbing...

NEW from the bestselling HBR's 10 Must Reads series. Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers--and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593539552Author Peter AtwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Thinking Strategist is your guide to accomplishing organizational goals, exceeding objectives, and securing the support of senior management and other key stakeholders. This much-needed new edition furthers the author's commitment to motivate and...

MONEY & LOVE: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions is a guide for navigating life's most consequential and daunting decisions using research-based insights road-tested in a popular Stanford University course.Should I move in with this...

Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and...

Managing Knowledge is an extensive and eminently readable overview of the most important ideas, tools and current applications of knowledge management. The authors rely on an innovative 'building block' approach and provide a detailed description of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995662414Author Yaron HollanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Ctthink!Publisher Ctthink!Weight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

The theme of this book is simple. The price - the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product - comes from data. Specifically, itcomes from statistically modeling the data.This book gives the reader the statistical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130918Author Liliana DoganovaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Think like a lawyer Don't Act Like One provides strategies to solve conflicts. Co-developed by Harvard University, many laywers, three bonobo's, two kissing boxers, a cowboy, Mikael Gorbatsjov, Sun Tze en John Rambo. Think Like a Lawyer Don't Act...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Masterly... Utterly compelling... A highly readable and engaging tour' Sam Freedman, The TimesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk-and the players...

An evidence-based resilience toolkit to help you find better, more sustainable ways to succeed at work and lifeIn The Burnout Fix, the award-winning psychologist and board-certified leadership coach Dr. Jacinta M. Jimenez shows you how to harness...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621454038Author Mark DivineFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious business goals.Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the...

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, successful in technical problems, could be used by managers to cope with the unfolding complexities of everyday life. His findings were revealed in Systems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612436395Author Paul ColaianniFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 187g