Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
The Communication Problem Solver
Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Management trainer and consultant Nannette Carroll has spent her career instilling top-flight communication skills in managers to keep their staffs productive and collaborative. In this detailed guide to workplace communication, she shares her best problem-solving techniques to resolve the people...
The Top 50 Management Dilemmas
Fast solutions to everyday challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Struggling to motivate your staff?
Looking for ways to make your meetings more effective?
Battling to get a decision from colleagues?
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Every manager, every day, at every level takes on challenges and problems that can be tricky to solve.
You’re...
Solving Tough Problems
An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to calculate “the one right answer.” After an unexpected experience in South Africa during the transition away...
Stinkin' Thinkin': 37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs & Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career & Your Life
37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs & Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career & Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The US space program faced a problem. Astronauts didn't have a pen that could write inside a zero-gravity capsule. NASA invested upward of $1 million to devise a pen that could. Their rivals faced the same problem, but they solved it for less than a dollar. They decided to use a pencil. This story...
What Did We Know? What Did We Do?
Making decisions in large organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In July 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. One hundred and eleven people lost their lives and numerous others were seriously injured.The accident was initiated by a small metallurgical defect in an engine rotating part. That engine was manufactured by General Electric Aircraft...
The Smart Swarm
How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Usin g the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making
The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take...
Behind Every Good Decision
How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data into Profitable Insight
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
So you’re not a numbers person? No worries! You say that you can’t understand how to read, let alone implement, these complex software programs that crunch all the data and spit out . . . more data? Not a problem either! There is a costly misconception in business today--that the only data that...
Eyes Wide Open
How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World is Noreena Hertz’s practical, cutting-edge guide to help you cut through the data deluge and make smarter and better choices, based on her highly popular TED talk.
In this eye-opening handbook, the internationally noted speaker,...
10-10-10
A Life-Transforming Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
**Any choice you make -
any decision -
will benefit from
10-10-10.**
We all want to lead a life of our own making. But in today's accelerated world, with its competing priorities, information overload, and confounding options, we can easily find ourselves steered by impulse,...
by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
A short, sharp guide to tackling life’s biggest challenges: understanding ourselves and making the right choices.
Every day offers moments of decision, from what to eat for lunch to how to settle a dispute with a colleague. Still larger questions loom: How can I motivate my team? How can...
Successful Decision-Making
Simple steps to make the best career choices for you
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about making professional decisions with this practical guide.We are all faced with difficult professional decisions at some point, and how we deal with them can have a major impact on our careers. When the stakes are so...
Directors' Decisions and the Law
Promoting Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company. The UK Companies Act 2006 codified directors’ duties for the first time and describes the director as the ‘most likely to promote the success of the company...
Think Twice
Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
No matter your field, industry, or specialty, as a leader you make a series of crucial decisions every single day. And the harsh truth is that the majority of decisions—no matter how good the intentions behind them—are mismanaged, resulting in a huge toll on organizations, the people they employ,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
With the influence of operations research and management science, business and administration methods have made significant strides in advancing the effective application methods for decision-making processes. Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research examines related research in decision,...