Decision Making & Problem Solving in Management & Leadership & Business & Finance eBooks

Startup Myths and Models

What You Won't Learn in Business School

by Rizwan Virk ...

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions.This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the
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Enabling Next Generation Legacies

35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask

by Peter Jaskiewicz, Sabine B. Rau ...

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Answering the most pressing thirty-five questions of Next Generation members in a short and concise, yet competent way—leading academics, practitioners, and enterprising families come together to empower Next Generation legacies.Masterfully detangling the intricate dynamics of the family, ownership, business, and wealth, the authors share best practices, real-life examples, and critical questions
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The Mini-Book on Use Cases: All You Need but Short

The Simplifying Series

by Alistair Cockburn ...

Series series The Simplifying Series
Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the ... Read more

$8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get moving fast on use cases.This book opens with a dozen examples ranging from simple to complex, low-level to "kite"-level. By page 38, you've finished the core explanations and are already slicing, refining, and applying the 7 key concepts to improve your writing. It's fast, focused, and designed to get readers productive immediately.A concise, practical introduction to use cases, from the
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Productive Tensions

How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

by Christopher B. Bingham, Rory M. McDonald ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation
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Acclimated to Africa

Cultural Competence for Westerners

by Debbi DiGennaro ...

Series Book 45 - Publications in Ethnography
Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West.
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Exception to the Rule: The Surprising Science of Character-Based Culture, Engagement, and Performance

by Alan Kolp, Peter J. Rea, James K. Stoller ...

The antidote to navigating turbulent times isn’t more rules. It is timeless virtue that creates sustainable value.Thoughtful leaders are keenly aware of the enormous challenge they face to drive high performance in a world that continues to ratchet up pressure and uncertainty. Some leaders respond by getting tough and establishing strict rules. They get people in line, but they don’t inspire ... Read more

$22.39 USD

The antidote to navigating turbulent times isn’t more rules. It is timeless virtue that creates sustainable value.Thoughtful leaders are keenly aware of the enormous challenge they face to drive high performance in a world that continues to ratchet up pressure and uncertainty. Some leaders respond by getting tough and establishing strict rules. They get people in line, but they don’t inspire
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The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook: 50+ Frameworks and Prompts to Automate Your Decision Making

AI leadership, #1

by Pierce Sterling ...

Series Book 1 - AI leadership
Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the future of management with The AI-Driven Leader's Playbook.In an era where speed and precision define success, staying ahead means integrating artificial intelligence into your core leadership strategy. This essential guide provides over 50 actionable frameworks and ready-to-use prompts specifically designed to help executives, managers, and entrepreneurs automate complex decision-making
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy

Classic Concepts and New Perspectives

Edited by Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler ...

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, ... Read more

$23.00 USD

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the worldFor more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers,
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Analytics Stories

Using Data to Make Good Things Happen

by Wayne L. Winston ...

Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problemsAnalytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the ... Read more

$22.00 USD

Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problemsAnalytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the
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Brainhack

Tips and Tricks to Unleash Your Brain's Full Potential

by Neil Pavitt ...

Hack into the secret power of your brainYour Brain100 Billion Neurons100 Trillion ConnectionsAnd you only command 5% of it.Now it's time to take back control!In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.This book will help you:• Learn to think ... Read more

$11.00 USD

Hack into the secret power of your brainYour Brain100 Billion Neurons100 Trillion ConnectionsAnd you only command 5% of it.Now it's time to take back control!In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.This book will help you:• Learn to think
... Read more
Business Model Innovation

Concepts, Analysis, and Cases

by Allan Afuah ...

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals ... Read more

$125.99 USD

Rooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy.Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals
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A Mind of Your Own

Independent Thought in the Age of Misinformation

by Warren Smith ...

"This book isn't merely for debaters or even truth seekers. It is for all of us. A Mind of Your Own is a blueprint for authenticity and a sovereign mind."—from the Foreword by PETER BOGHOSSIAN, coauthor of How to Have Impossible ConversationsA Mind of Your Own reveals a simple but transformative truth: Logic is a skill, but most people have never been taught how to use it. This book is more than ... Read more

$19.99 USD

"This book isn't merely for debaters or even truth seekers. It is for all of us. A Mind of Your Own is a blueprint for authenticity and a sovereign mind."—from the Foreword by PETER BOGHOSSIAN, coauthor of How to Have Impossible ConversationsA Mind of Your Own reveals a simple but transformative truth: Logic is a skill, but most people have never been taught how to use it. This book is more than
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On Trust and AI

A Blueprint for the Intelligent Enterprise

by Alexander Feick ...

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices ... Read more

$9.99 USD

AI can't guarantee its own reliability. Trust in its decisions depends on you.Artificial intelligence is moving into core business processes faster than most organizations can govern it. Leaders are being asked to rely on systems that behave intelligently but fail unpredictably-systems that make opaque decisions, accumulate silent privileges, and drift out of alignment long before anyone notices
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Positive Leadership

Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

by Kim Cameron ...

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron ... Read more

$15.99 USD

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Beyond Success Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron
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AI-Born

The Machine Core

by Mehran Granfar ...

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The job title is dying. What comes next will define how we build.We are witnessing a lineage break as profound as the Industrial Revolution - but this time, it's happening at machine speed. A three-person team now orchestrates the productive capacity that once required 30,000 employees. AI agents don't just assist with work; they are the workforce, executing, learning, and adapting faster than any
... Read more
朋友與敵人：哥倫比亞大學╳華頓商學院聯手，教你掌握合作與競爭之間的張力，當更好的盟友與更令人敬畏的對手（暢銷新裝版）

Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both

by 亞當．賈林斯基, Adam Galinsky, 莫里斯．史威瑟, Maurice Schweitzer, 許恬寧 ...

★暢銷全球．商管心理學必讀經典★了解人性，才能創造雙贏，重點是──讓自己多贏一些！競爭與合作，並不是二選一。掌握敵友關係的正確平衡，在面試、會議、談判等場合，為自己創造有利環境！哥倫比亞大學╳華頓商學院聯手，引用科學實證研究，揭開合作與競爭的成功祕訣！．為什麼我們應該在面試時最後一個上場，買賣房子時卻應該第一個喊價？．為什麼榮獲奧斯卡最佳影片的電影，大多在美國10月至12月間上映？．為什麼笨手笨腳反而能提升地位與權威？．什麼時候人才太多反而不是好事？．如何靠著欺騙建立信任？成功的要素是什麼？有人認為人類天生愛好競爭，追求私利才能出人頭地；也有人指出人類屬於合作的物種，合群最能帶來成功。哥倫比亞大學賈林斯基教授與華頓商學院史威瑟教授則主張：人並非天生愛競爭，也非天生就該合作，而是競爭中有合作，合作中有競爭。不論是同事、朋友、伴侶、手足，我們... ... Read more

$9.99 USD

★暢銷全球．商管心理學必讀經典★了解人性，才能創造雙贏，重點是──讓自己多贏一些！競爭與合作，並不是二選一。掌握敵友關係的正確平衡，在面試、會議、談判等場合，為自己創造有利環境！哥倫比亞大學╳華頓商學院聯手，引用科學實證研究，揭開合作與競爭的成功祕訣！．為什麼我們應該在面試時最後一個上場，買賣房子時卻應該第一個喊價？．為什麼榮獲奧斯卡最佳影片的電影，大多在美國10月至12月間上映？．為什麼笨手笨腳反而能提升地位與權威？．什麼時候人才太多反而不是好事？．如何靠著欺騙建立信任？成功的要素是什麼？有人認為人類天生愛好競爭，追求私利才能出人頭地；也有人指出人類屬於合作的物種，合群最能帶來成功。哥倫比亞大學賈林斯基教授與華頓商學院史威瑟教授則主張：人並非天生愛競爭，也非天生就該合作，而是競爭中有合作，合作中有競爭。不論是同事、朋友、伴侶、手足，我們...
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The Value Flywheel Effect

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

by David Anderson ...

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to
... Read more
意圖韌性：終止拖延萎靡的神奇之鑰！激活動機潛能，個人與團隊目標皆高效實現的強大心理力量

Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers

by 麥克．詹姆斯·羅斯、塞庫爾．斯克爾．克拉斯特夫博士、丹恩．皮拉特 ...

Translated by 謝慈 ...

Series series GC標竿學院
無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等 ... Read more

$10.99 USD

無限意志力、驚人的原子習慣，你可以全部要！！！震撼全球的驚人發現！！麥肯錫、波士頓顧問，權威聯手的巔峰著作手機斷癮、瘦身、戒菸…很難堅持到底、力不從心，為什麼？部屬消極、低效、很難帶…「共享意圖」能徹底解決、成功變革！20道絕對有效的自我練習，徹底告別無力感與建立意圖人生Google、豐田汽車、星巴克…. 世界級A+企業成就卓越的秘密★驚人發現！拖延、厭世萎靡、惡習難改，錯不在你，而是……　　你必然有過這樣的類似經驗。莫名覺得生活乏味、失去熱忱、工作消極，對未來不再懷抱期望。於是，你「困」在公司了無生趣地等著下班、回到家「困」在沙發滿身疲憊地盯著無聊的電視畫面、「困」在床上漫無目的地滑著手機……。明知有事該處理卻提不起勁地一昧拖延，整個人陷入「遲鈍、虛無、厭世」的情緒當中。也有不少人尋求改變、想讓自己變得更好，發憤圖強要戒除壞習慣，包括手機成癮、耗時追劇、貪食變胖，不該抽菸等等
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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)

A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H

by Roger Von Oech ...

"You can't step in the same river twice.""Dogs bark at what they don't understand.""The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever.In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't ... Read more

$13.99 USD

"You can't step in the same river twice.""Dogs bark at what they don't understand.""The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever.In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't
... Read more
Decision Making and Problem Solving

Break Through Barriers and Banish Uncertainty at Work

by John Adair ...

Series series Creating Success
Thought leader John Adair provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.This 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to provide a clear framework that can generate ideas and inspire confidence in your team - so you can spot the solution in every problem, and create ideas to ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Thought leader John Adair provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.This 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to provide a clear framework that can generate ideas and inspire confidence in your team - so you can spot the solution in every problem, and create ideas to
... Read more
Negative Thinking: How To Transform Negative Thoughts And Self Talk Into Positive Thinking

by Colin Smith ...

Do you ever suffer from negative thinking and negative self talk? With this guide you will learn how to transform these negative thoughts about yourself into positive thinking, leading to better self-esteem.Here are just some of the amazing secrets, tips and techniques included in this guidebook:• Become aware of your own negative thought patterns and stop them in their tracks• Discover how to get ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Do you ever suffer from negative thinking and negative self talk? With this guide you will learn how to transform these negative thoughts about yourself into positive thinking, leading to better self-esteem.Here are just some of the amazing secrets, tips and techniques included in this guidebook:• Become aware of your own negative thought patterns and stop them in their tracks• Discover how to get
... Read more
The Design Thinking Workbook

Essential Skills for Creativity and Business Growth

by CJ Meadows, Charvi Parikh ...

Design Thinking (DT) is popular in corporate innovation and start-ups alike for helping people to craft fresh, new solutions to today’s challenges and develop underlying skills in high demand in tomorrow’s economy: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, insight, empathy, experimentation, and more.After years of research and practice in Design Thinking, CJ Meadows and Charvi Parikh have ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Design Thinking (DT) is popular in corporate innovation and start-ups alike for helping people to craft fresh, new solutions to today’s challenges and develop underlying skills in high demand in tomorrow’s economy: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, insight, empathy, experimentation, and more.After years of research and practice in Design Thinking, CJ Meadows and Charvi Parikh have
... Read more
Process Mapping, Process Improvement, and Process Management

A Practical Guide for Enhancing Work and Information Flow

by Dan Madison ...

This is the No. 1 bestselling book on process mapping, process improvement, and process management. It will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and a ... Read more

$44.95 USD

This is the No. 1 bestselling book on process mapping, process improvement, and process management. It will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and a
... Read more
Analytics at Work

Smarter Decisions, Better Results

by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Morison ...

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were
... Read more

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