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

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
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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
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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
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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
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Conflict and Leadership

How to Harness the Power of Conflict to Create Better Leaders and Build Thriving Teams

by Christian Muntean ...

Conflict is one of the greatest sources of tolerated business expenses and loss. This is despite the fact that this expense and loss can, in most cases, be easily turned around to revenue and gain. In the nonprofit world one of the greatest inhibitors of mission success is not that there isn’t enough funding, or the challenging nature of the cause. It is the simple fact that teams struggle to work ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Conflict is one of the greatest sources of tolerated business expenses and loss. This is despite the fact that this expense and loss can, in most cases, be easily turned around to revenue and gain. In the nonprofit world one of the greatest inhibitors of mission success is not that there isn’t enough funding, or the challenging nature of the cause. It is the simple fact that teams struggle to work
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Want More Customers? Read This Book! How to Get More Customers in Your Business Today.

Read This Book!, #1

by Mikkell Khan ...

Series Book 1 - Read This Book!
Want more customers? Read this book! goes through reasons of why persons buy fromsuccessful businesses and how you can put your business in that stratosphere.DF Studios and Mikkell Khan bring to light changes that any business can make today toget them a constant supply of eager, higher paying and returning customers. ... Read more

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Want more customers? Read this book! goes through reasons of why persons buy fromsuccessful businesses and how you can put your business in that stratosphere.DF Studios and Mikkell Khan bring to light changes that any business can make today toget them a constant supply of eager, higher paying and returning customers.
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The Six Sigma Method

Boost quality and consistency in your business

by 50minutes ...

Series Book 14 - Management & Marketing
Boost quality and consistency in your business!This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Six Sigma method, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Follow the DMAIC methodology to successfully implement the Six Sigma method in your company• Focus on the three most important factors: customers, ... Read more

$13.41 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Boost quality and consistency in your business!This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the Six Sigma method, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Follow the DMAIC methodology to successfully implement the Six Sigma method in your company• Focus on the three most important factors: customers,
... Read more
The Light and Fast Organisation

A New Way of Dealing with Uncertainty

by Patrick Hollingworth ...

Cut the organisational and operational dead weight to climb higher, fasterThe Light and Fast Organisation presents a blueprint for organisations looking to thrive in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity - has become the dominant mode of modern business, and leaders are overwhelmed. Competition and instability has increased while ... Read more

$15.00 USD

Cut the organisational and operational dead weight to climb higher, fasterThe Light and Fast Organisation presents a blueprint for organisations looking to thrive in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity - has become the dominant mode of modern business, and leaders are overwhelmed. Competition and instability has increased while
... Read more
Failure Is Obsolete

The Ultimate Strategy to Create Recurring Success in Your Business and Your Life

by Benji Rabhan ...

A data-driven way to make smarter decisions every day: "One of the smartest conversion guys I know" (Perry Marshall, author of The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords).Failure Is Obsolete reveals an easy-to-use formula for testing high-risk ideas in a low-risk environment, providing increased likelihood of success before you waste a lot of time and money moving in the wrong direction.Be more ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A data-driven way to make smarter decisions every day: "One of the smartest conversion guys I know" (Perry Marshall, author of The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords).Failure Is Obsolete reveals an easy-to-use formula for testing high-risk ideas in a low-risk environment, providing increased likelihood of success before you waste a lot of time and money moving in the wrong direction.Be more
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We Need to Talk

A Survival Guide for Tough Conversations

by Joshua Graves ...

Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and years of real-world experience, We Need to Talk provides a practical framework for navigating difficult conversations with confidence and empathy. Whether you're dealing with workplace conflicts, team dynamics, or challenging personal discussions, this book equips you with the tools to transform confrontational situations into opportunities for growth and ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and years of real-world experience, We Need to Talk provides a practical framework for navigating difficult conversations with confidence and empathy. Whether you're dealing with workplace conflicts, team dynamics, or challenging personal discussions, this book equips you with the tools to transform confrontational situations into opportunities for growth and
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Generation Z's Guide to Work

by Jennifer Wisdom, Nora Del Rosario ...

How can Generation Z succeed at work?We spend our years in high school and university preparing to join the workforce. However, many recent or soon-to-be graduates find themselves full of questions. How do I get my dream career? What kind of work is best for me? How do I even talk to my coworkers?For all those questions and doubts, there is the Generation Z's Guide to Work. Young professional Nora ... Read more

$9.99 USD

How can Generation Z succeed at work?We spend our years in high school and university preparing to join the workforce. However, many recent or soon-to-be graduates find themselves full of questions. How do I get my dream career? What kind of work is best for me? How do I even talk to my coworkers?For all those questions and doubts, there is the Generation Z's Guide to Work. Young professional Nora
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