Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
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.
No...
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,...
Systemic consulting
The organisation as a living system
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Consultants are usually invited to work in an organisation when its own managers are unable to find solutions to business problems. Then expert help is brought in - on a temporary basis.
Systemic consulting is uniquely different from any other consulting approach in that it is not the consultant...
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...
Breaking Bad Habits
Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
An in-depth look at how certain best practices can have unintended and negative effects on businesses, and how to avoid them.
Based on rigorous research, most of it the author’s own.
Great stories (from the world of management and beyond).
Freek is an entertaining storyteller.
Even though the...
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,...
by James P Ignizio
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
TQM, Reengineering, Theory of Constraints, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing . . .
These are just some of the methods that, over the past five decades, have promised to transform any manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, moneymaking machine. While each incorporates certain fundamental truths,...
Project: Impossible
How the Great Leaders of History Identified, Solved, and Accomplished the Seemingly Impossible — and How You Can Too!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Nothing is impossible if you have unlimited time, resources, and flexible objectives. Project managers never find themselves in such a situation. Our projects are impossible if they can’t be done within the constraints…but sometimes there’s a way around even the most challenging barrier....