Business Problem Solving

A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life.

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. But Justin soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected.

Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage.

Jennings and Haughton traveled the globe and penetrated the world's fastest companies to witness the methods used by quick, dominant leaders in business ranging from retail sales to fast food, from financial services to communications. If you want to think faster, all the information you need is here. You'll find lessons from the speediest international companies on how to become faster than anyone else in today's ever-changing business world.

All the War They Want presents counterintuitive problem-solving techniques, using as its case in point one of the most existential threats to our national security and American way of life: cyber warfare. Informed by Jeffrey Engle’s experience as a member of the U.S. military’s elite special ops community, his Brazilian jiujitsu training, and his leadership of a premier cyber defense company, All the War They Want offers an alternative perspective on overcoming tough leadership challenges—a perspective previously available only to those bearing the scars of a lifetime at war.

In this incredible book, you will discover the secret of every successful human and his mental models. Mental models are simply the ways you transform what happens in your head toward the outside world. Ideas, beliefs, and imagination all play a role in creating your reality and with the right models. You can easily become the best version of you and your ideas.

List the hottest buzzwords in business today and "analytics" is bound to come out near the top. But to most people, analytics implies complex tools and technical experts manipulating massive amounts and varieties of information (i.e.,"Big Data"). But complex Big Data analytics isn't the only game in town. And many people don't realize that a business doesn't need data scientists and complex tools to derive useful information and valuable benefits from any amount of raw data.

You didn’t start your business to fail. But failure doesn’t arrive with fireworks. It creeps in quietly—through missed signs, slow leaks, and decisions made just a little too late. That’s what warning signals are for. And if you don’t have them, you're flying blind. This book shows you how to install them. Built on public-sector early warning frameworks used to prevent disasters, Early Warning Signals translates that same thinking into practical tools for business owners.

Based on breakthrough research, field testing, and proven best-practices, the thought-leading vision described by Gary Harpst in Six Disciplines Execution Revolution sets a new course for how small and midsized businesses can finally confront the never-ending challenge of executing strategy.

Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

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On average, each of us makes more than 10,000 decisions a day. Today and every day. Most slip past unnoticed. Some we recognize as pivotal in the moment; others reveal their significance only with time. Which is which we may never know. Yet one truth remains: every decision matters. Each carries the power to influence health, happiness, or success. Together, the sum of our choices determines the course of a life.

في هذا الكتاب، يؤكد ميرفي" أن الطريقة المثلى لإدراك وبدء ممارسة إمكاناتك الأكبر تقوم على اتخاذك قرارات سريعة. وغالبًا ما تخرج القرارات كنتيجة للحدس — والذي أعتقد أنه يعمل كنتيجة لكل من مخزون المعلومات لدى الفرد (لا تهمله أبدًا) — وقدر من المشاركة في تنفيذ إرادة الخالق أو العقل الأسمى. لقد أطلق اليونانيون القدماء على هذه السمة العقلية اسم Nous (وتعني العقل). وإن مصطلح genius (والذي يعني عبقري)، يعني في أصله باللغة اللاتينية "الذات الحاضرة" — حيث رأى القدماء الإلهام والفطنة والبصيرة باعتبارها نعمًا وهبها الخالق.

Ob im Beruf, beim Sport, in der Politik oder wichtigen Lebensentscheidungen: Wenn Menschen sich im Wettbewerb befinden, benötigen sie gute Strategien, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen und erfolgreich zu sein. Das Problem ist nur: oft fehlt angesichts ausufernder Komplexität und gefühlt immer steigender Unsicherheit der Durchblick. Wie stellt man also die richtigen Fragen? Wie fokussiere ich auf ein Zielbild? Wie stellt man sicher, dass man den für sich richtigen Weg findet? Und wie behält man Klarheit im Strategiewirrwarr?

We can’t always control the situation, but we can control how we choose to navigate it. And navigation is particularly important when you’re a pilot. Take it from Rebecca Barkhouse, a professional pilot who has spent nearly two decades not just flying planes, but teaching others how to become accomplished pilots, too. Her own journey to becoming a pilot was filled with unpredictable moments and plenty of situations she couldn’t control.

You're a college student studying SCM or a supply chain management professional wanting more knowledge. This book is an essential guide to cross-border trade and supply chain management. Whether you’re just starting in the field or seeking to refresh your knowledge, this comprehensive book covers everything from A to Z, ensuring you’re equipped with the expertise needed for success.

It's commonly believed that intellect, memory, and problem-solving are decided at birth – the brain you start with is only capable of growing to a certain degree. The truth is, your brain adapts and evolves daily as life unfolds around you and it is exposed to new experiences and stimuli. When you read a book, your brain strengthens neural connections related to analytical thinking and language. The simple act of going for a walk requires the coordination of spatial awareness and movement, along with dozens of other processes.

It's a jungle out there. There is no end to the obstacles, challenges, mountains, and unexpected issues, even self-defeating thoughts, that get in the way of being the best you can be and achieving your goals and dreams. So here it is: a powerful system to enable you to make good decisions, prevent problems, and plan for the future with speed, effectiveness, and accuracy every time! The greatest coaches and leaders today and throughout history have mastered these skills. And now, so can you.

Analyze. Assess. Explore. Create... If the Decisions You Make Are Important, This is the Most Important Self-Improvement Program You Will Ever Take. What is thinking? How do you approach difficult, make plans, arrive at decisions? In this one-of-a-kind audio workshop, Dr. Edward de Bono, an...

This book is about supporting your work as a leader. Its about helping you slow down, pull out of the day-to-day spin, build better problem solvers within your team, reduce your stress, and have more time for the leadership work you love. It reviews six strategies to deal with ASKhole behavior and stay out of the ASKhole trap.