Decision Making category: 1513 books
by Matthew Smith, Jessica Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Choosing to start a business is a powerful decision. It brings with it a great sense of freedom, but also a great sense of responsibility. We know there’s a reason why you believe starting a business is right for you, but if you’re going to be successful, you need real advice from real business...
Profiting From Uncertainty
Strategies for Succeeding No Matter What the Future Brings
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
What manager is not anxious about the future? We live in a white-knuckled age of rapid technological change and global instability. But uncertainty is not the enemy, says management expert Paul J. H. Schoemaker. It is where the greatest opportunities are. To unlock these opportunities, however, requires...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
As there is a vast amount of information to consider when offering quality services, organizations have developed techniques for identifying risk factors to be taken into consideration when constructing effective business strategies. Developing Business Strategies and Identifying Risk Factors in Modern...
Emotionomics
Leveraging Emotions for Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
'I believe that 'emotion' is where it's at'
Tom Peters
For far too long, emotions have been ignored in favour of rationality and efficiency, but breakthroughs in brain science have revealed that people are primarily emotional decision-makers. Many companies have not yet accepted that...
Consensus Through Conversations
How to Achieve High-Commitment Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Real organizational change isn't brought about by decree, pressure, permission, or even persuasion. Sustained change comes when people are passionately and personally committed to a future that they have helped to shape. If you want to turn your organization's cynics into owners, give them a voice...
No Place to Stand Alone
Historical Mergers & Acquisitions. Retail-Aviation-Oil & Gas-Pharma-Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Oil, retail, pharmaceutical, hospitality, and airline: Five major corporate fields where historical mergers and acquisitions have taken place over the last three decades. Some have been successful, some have not. But why they occurred—and why they triumphed or failed—need not be a mystery anymore.
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by Steven Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Growth and prosperity are hallmarks of the modern culture. The folks bent on advancement run the gamut from the workman and entrepreneur to the executive and politician.
For all the yearnings of progress, however, it’s hard to find anyone who goes about the business of advancement in a coherent...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This is a Summary of Tetlock and Gardner’s New York Times Bestseller: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of PredictionEveryone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately,...
Performance-Based Project Management
Increasing the Probablility of Project Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Even the most experienced project managers aren’t immune to the more common and destructive reasons for project collapses. Poor time and budget performance, failure to deal with complexity, uncontrolled changes in scope . . . they can catch anyone off guard. Performance-Based Project Management...
by Dan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
For far too long, emotions have been ignored in favor of rationality and efficiency. Breakthroughs in brain science have revealed that people are primarily emotional decision-makers. Many companies have not yet accepted that fact, ignoring emotion in favor of rationality and efficiency. Even fewer...
Risky Curves
On the Empirical Failure of Expected Utility
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not...
The Evolution of Cooperation
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world
We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the...
The Practical Drucker
Applying the Wisdom of the World's Greatest Management Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
There is no shortage of books and successful businesspeople who have emphasized concepts such as decentralization, outsourcing, the rise of the knowledge worker, the role of employees as assets, and a focus on the customer. But it was Peter Drucker who years, sometimes decades, first blew the whistle...
by Mark Villareal
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Today, many business organizations struggle to survive, grow, and succeed. Their employees lack guidance and direction as well as the leaders who should be leading them. They then struggle to define the answers for correction, or the causes of failure and they go through cycles of constant planning,...