Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
by D. Keith Denton
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
This book is a condensed and updated version of my paperback book originally published by Praeger Publishers. The day to day grind can make you easily lose site of the big picture. We hope that our activities contribute to corporate objectives, but we quickly lose sight of the connection between what...
Learn New Skills Here. How to Solve External and Internal Problems
.SHORT STORY #44. Nonfiction series #1 -# 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In my others stories on problem solving and how to create innovations I introduced many skills to readers. Here are another set of skills—how to solve external and internal problems. That is: the 1st, I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external...
Winning with Data
Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Crest the data wave with a deep cultural shift
Winning with Data explores the cultural changes big data brings to business, and shows you how to adapt your organization to leverage data to maximum effect. Authors Tomasz Tunguz and Frank Bien draw on extensive background in big data, business...
Informed by Knowledge
Expert Performance in Complex Situations
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme...
Leadership in Agriculture
Case Studies for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
In a world facing chronic and increasing shortages in food crops and natural resources, visionary leadership in agriculture becomes more and more critical for building and maintaining a sustainable future. It is of paramount importance that the dynamic and challenging evolution in agriculture over...
The Heretic's Guide to Best Practices
The Reality of Managing Complex Problems in Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
When it comes to solving complex problems, we often perform elaborate rituals in the guise of best practices that promise a world of order, certainty, and control. But reality paints a far different picture, which practitioners are often reluctant to discuss.
A witty yet rigorous journey through...
Negotiating at Work
Turn Small Wins into Big Gains
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Understand the context of negotiations to achieve better results
Negotiation has always been at the heart of solving problems at work. Yet today, when people in organizations are asked to do more with less, be responsive 24/7, and manage in rapidly changing environments, negotiation is more...
No More Pointless Meetings
Breakthrough Sessions That Will Revolutionize the Way You Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Wasting time in pointless meetings....It's the bane of work life-and the one thing that never seems to change. But meetings can be highly effective, says Martin Murphy, who has helped a "Who's Who" of corporate clients transform timesapping meetings into "breakthrough sessions"...
The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses
Creative, Innovative and Cost-Saving Ideas from Great Business Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Do you have a problem you've never faced before? Are you looking for an idea that will be your next big breakthrough? You are not alone. Every day, thousands of entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to business problems. The best of the best are here, in one of the most useful business guides...
by Marcia Emery Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Call it a gut feeling, a sudden knowing, a bolt from the blue. PowerHunch! underscores the strength of this quiet yet powerful force that adds a flash of clarity to any situation. Whether it's relationships, career, balance and healing, or simple everyday decision-making, intuition gives everyone an...
Farsighted
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right?
Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to...
Simple Sabotage
A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees.
In 1944, the Office...
Design Thinking in Business and IT
Overview, Techniques and Example Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking” were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every...
by The Customer Service Training Institute
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
How we react when a customer becomes unhappy or dissatisfied can mean the difference between losing a customer and creating a customer for life. Though it may sound like a cliche, problems can really become opportunities if you go about solving them in the right way.
Losing a customer is a...