Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
The Listening Leader
How to drive performance by using communicative leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
DISCOVERTHE ART OF COMMUNICATIVE LEADERSHIP: HOW TO REALLY LISTEN SO YOU CAN WIN AND HOLD THE TRUST OF YOUR STAKEHOLDERS.
Leaders often say ‘I communicate’ when, in fact, they mean ‘I tell’. Yet being able to really listen is the key to growth and results. The Listening Leader...
The New Edge in Knowledge
How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The best thinking and actions in the fast-moving arena of collaboration and knowledge management
The New Edge in Knowledge captures the most practical and innovative practices to ensure organizations have the knowledge they need in the future and, more importantly, the ability to connect the...
Agile Practices for Waterfall Projects
Shifting Processes for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Projects in the near future will be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional waterfall processes to better address the speed to market, product innovation, and financial challenges that organizations face. The project managers who learn how to merge Agile with Waterfall methodologies first will...
The Knowledge Illusion
Why We Never Think Alone
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
**“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker
We all think we know more than we actually do.**
Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even...
by Jac Fitz-enz, John Mattox II
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Create and run a human resource analytics project with confidence
For any human resource professional that wants to harness the power of analytics, this essential resource answers the questions: "Where do I start?" and "What tools are available?" Predictive Analytics for...
Human Capital Analytics
How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
An insightful look at the implementation of advanced analytics on human capital
Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining and business analytics techniques to human resources data. Human Capital Analytics...
7 Paths to Managerial Leadership
Doing Well by Doing It Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Put timeless management practices to work.
The most important relationship is between a manager and a direct report. Studies confirm that the majority of people leave their jobs because they dislike their manager and the way they are supervised. After all, managers directly influence staff...
The Effective Organization
Practical Application of Complexity Theory and Organizational Design to Maximize Performance in the Face of Emerging Events.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Project Overview: What the Book’s About
"It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine)
Performance...
by Charles H Strange
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
There is money hidden in your company right now. Money that you can’t see. It is not on a financial statement, performance review, or production report. Depending on how long you have been in business and how large your company has grown, it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The first in...
Creativity Research
An Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines.
This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from...
Strategy As Action
Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established...
Collaborative Evaluations
Step-by-Step, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Collaborative Evaluations: Step-by-Step, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide for evaluators who aim to master collaborative practice. Liliana Rodríguez-Campos and Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez present their Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) with its six major components: identify the situation,...
Academic-Practitioner Relationships
Developments, Complexities and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic. Many aspects of this knowledge co-creation can create tensions,...
by Ralph R. Pawlak
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book deals with the improvement of suppliers in order to increase a company's top and bottom-line. The enhancement of suppliers can be accomplished in a series of steps when conditions warrant intervention. They can also be generated through direct quality mentoring when the supplier does not...