Decision-Making & Problem Solving

The logical and enduring way to innovate.Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless...

Simplicity is a hard thing. As the legendary Jony Ive, Apple's former Chief Design Officer, once said, the challenge is "to solve incredibly complex problems and make their resolution appear inevitable and incredibly simple". Today, as technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541774490Author David S DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734256666Author Dr Geoffrey Mount VarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Beyond the Book Media LLCPublisher Beyond the Book Media LLCWeight(grams)...

Creativity has long been thought of as an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if this most common belief about how creativity works is wrong? In this revised and expanded...

An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climate Fear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead...

This book (intended for beginning analysts, students, and the people training them) bridges general business problem solving and mathematics for improved effectiveness in work and life. Full of tools for solving real-world problems, this new edition is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523087518Author Bob JohansenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling...

There is a new edition of this book available: Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics: An Easy to Understand Guide, 4th Edition (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-765476-5). Thought you couldn't learn statistics? You can - and you will! Even You Can Learn...

Marketing Manager's Guide to Successful Brand Marketing"Scott Miller offers tangible insights and practical steps to make sure your product finds the right customer..." Donald Miller, author of Marketing Made Simple, and Building a StoryBrand.2021 OWL...

MAKING HARD DECISIONS WITH DECISIONTOOLS is a new edition of Bob Clemen's best-selling title, MAKING HARD DECISIONS. This straightforward book teaches the fundamental ideas of decision analysis, without an overly technical explanation of the mathematics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638680031Author H William DettmerFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

With the demise of WorldCom amidst a flurry of accounting scandals dominating the front pages, and following hotly in the footsteps of the equally spectacular downfall of other telecoms giants including Global Crossing and Lucent Technologies in recent...

Changing the way we use, develop, and fund technology for social change is possible, and it starts with you. The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World outlines a vision of a more equitable...

There's a problem with innovation inside of big companies. And it's not what you think. Corporations are better managed than ever, but they're less capable of delivering the breakthroughs that change our world for the better. Big companies are too often...

The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn't take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to the forefront of problems we desperately need to solve. But now that the...

Failure is inevitable and a postmortem analysis, conducted in an open, blameless way, is the best way for IT techs and managers to learn from outages and near-misses. But when the "root cause" is determined to be "human error" (or worse, particular...

Attract, recruit, and retain the very best with a strategic employer brand From one of the world's leading pioneers in the employer brand discipline and author of the first book on the subject The Employer Brand, comes the long-awaited practical...

The battlefield of the past is an opportunity for the future commander, the future manager to reflect. The books rationale for translating military concepts into management speak is the authors impression in the classroom that managers in commercial...

The standard way of thinking about decisions is backwards, says Ralph Keeney: people focus first on identifying alternatives rather than on articulating values. A problem arises and people react, placing the emphasis on mechanics and fixed choices...

Designing the Customer-Centric Organization offers todaya??s business leaders a comprehensive customer-centric organizational model that clearly shows how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer. Written by...

Conquering the dating market--from an economist's point of view After more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene--but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony,...

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right...

Award winning author Kim Warren presents his new book: Strategic Management Dynamics - a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management Dynamics builds on, and goes substantially beyond the existing strategy textbooks with...

"As homo sapiens' entry in any intergalactic design competition, industrial civilization would be tossed out at the qualifying round." - David Orr, Earth in Mind Design has built global brands, disrupted industries, and transformed our lives...

Change is the norm in business. Here's how you navigate it.The only thing you can rely on in today's workplace is uncertainty. Between mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and team shuffles, pandemics and recessions, only the nimble survive. This book is...

A decade on from its birth, emotional intelligence is attracting more attention than ever before. Why? Because of its proven connection to performance. Tomorrow's leaders will have to be facilitators who work collaboratively to help others develop their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646960279Author Christopher HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint M & M Limitless Online Inc.Publisher M & M Limitless Online Inc.Weight(grams)...

“Some things are worth dying for. For everything else, you need a plan.”Fabiana Lacerca-Allen’s father spoke these words to her when she was just a child, and at the time they put her on her professional path. She still lives by them today, as she...

Design for and turn your failures into meaningful learning experiences Written by a leading global expert on human cognition, productive failure, and learning methods, Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593854020Author Shane ParrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215g

"Direction," "Destination," and "Decisions" are the outcomes of strategic planning, a process used to formulate strategy by helping leaders and employees to define their organization's path, their desired future, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636801964Author Chad T JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ethos CollectivePublisher Ethos CollectiveWeight(grams) 195g

Using detailed and comprehensive analysis, Generations of Giving: Leadership and Continuity in Family Foundations examines continuity and leadership over time within family foundations. Based upon a study of foundations in the United States and Canada...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550963Author Kees DorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591844273Author Eduardo PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289g

The processes and consequences of household decision-making are investigated using multi-disciplinary research methods of decision analysis that involves statistical, mathematical, psychological, anthropological, and econometric techniques brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887503240Author Arjan SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher Forbesbooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316266659Author Daniel KahnemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 481g