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  • Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

    The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

    by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff ...
    The international bestseller—don't compete without it!A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

    A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

    by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff ...
    “I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.”—Steven LevittGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Thinking Strategically

    The Competitive Edge in Business Politics and Everyday Life

    by Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life presents the source's core game-theory framework through strategic stories, sequential and simultaneous games, backward induction, dominant strategies, equilibrium, the Prisoners' Dilemma, strategic moves, credible commitments, mixed strategies, brinkmanship, coordination, voting, bargaining, incentives, and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Economics and Literature

    A Novel Approach

    Edited by François Bourguignon, Avinash K Dixit, Luc Leruth, Jean-Philippe Platteau ...
    Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.In each chapter, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    by Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

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  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

    by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne ...
    Series series HBR's 10 Must Reads
    Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 ... Read more

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  • HBR Guide to Better Business Writing (HBR Guide Series)

    by Bryan A. Garner ...
    Series series HBR Guide Series
    DON'T LET YOUR WRITING HOLD YOU BACK.When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over.The HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Explanation

    Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand

    by Lee LeFever ...
    Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist.You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea - and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem.The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

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  • This Will Make You Smarter

    150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 11 - Edge Question Series
    Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—scientific concepts to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

    A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)

    by Laura Vanderkam ...
    Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • It's All Politics

    WINNING IN A WORLD WHERE HARD WORK AND TALENT AREN'T ENOUGH

    by Kathleen Kelley Reardon Ph.D. ...
    From It’s All PoliticsLike business in general, politics is not a spectator sport. You cannot afford to be apolitical at work if you have any aspirations for advancement. The only way to avoid politics is to avoid people—by finding an out-of-the-way corner where you can do your job. Of course, it’s the same job you’ll likely be doing for the rest of your career.In any job, when you reach a certain ... Read more

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  • The Effective Executive

    The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

    by Peter F. Drucker ...
    A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.What makes an effective executive?For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant guide to managing oneself, he looks to the most ... Read more

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