Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
Mean Business
How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb--"to dunlap"--when describing a fast company turnaround.
ALBERT J. DUNLAP grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey,...
How to Kill Your Company
50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way Ive ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail.
Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers...
Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
**From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
* More than 1.5 million copies sold
* New York Times bestseller
* Named...
The Ostrich Paradox
Why We Underprepare for Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk.”
-Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking,...
The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated
The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack, took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to "manage" a company, but...
by Mike Wallick
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Find the clever parallels between a small business and this cute little girl's lemonade stand. The book is a masterful illustrative tool demonstrating basic fundamentals of small business in a clever easy to read package. From mixing the lemons and deciding that using lemon juice would be cheaper...
by Gary Burnison
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
ALL IN, ALL THE TIME
For Gary Burnison, CEO of the world’s largest executive search firm, these five simple words perfectly capture the essence of great leadership. There can be no half measures. Complete commitment, total engagement, and a powerful sense of personal responsibility are the...
A New Breed of Leader
8 Leadership Qualities That Matter Most in the Real World What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In A New Breed of Leader, Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel-global leadership expert, bestselling author, and award-winning speaker-will show readers how to develop the essential qualities needed to become an effective leader:
Competence-building purpose
Accountability-fostering trust
Openness-generating...
Hiring Smart!
How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Gam e
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Now in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today'¬?s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"-observing a candidate'¬?s behavior and predicting what they'¬?ll...
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
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 set of interdisciplinary mental...
by Simon Sinek
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Do you know how to play the game you’re in?
In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.
In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and...
How I Did It
Lessons from the Front Lines of Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Powerful stories from the world’s top CEOs to help prepare you for the hard decisions ahead.
The essays in How I Did It teach and inspire. Pulled directly from the pages of one of the most popular columns in Harvard Business Review, these essays offer firsthand accounts of the most difficult...
by Doug Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Ideal for inspiring marketers, artists, teachers, and anyone who needs fresh ideas for work and home, Jump Start Your Brain helps readers crank up both their cranium and career. Featuring smart and creative methods for providing better leadership, igniting sales and marketing, and realizing dreams...
Good Profit
How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
THE UNIQUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROM A LEGENDARY CEO
In 1967, Charles Koch took the reins of his father’s company and began the process of growing it from a $21 million start-up into a global corporation with revenues of about $115 billion, according to Forbes.
So how did this MIT...