Business Problem Solving

A social psychologist and Cornell professor of organizational behavior reveals the business and life benefits of knowing when to say something—and when to keep things to yourself. Should I ask an upset colleague what's wrong? Should I tell my bestie the truth when she asks about her new...

A business anthropologist reveals how cultural intelligence is the essential tool for understanding human behavior. Why do people do what we do? To answer this question, many of us turn to psychology. But it’s not enough to understand how we think. We also have to recognize the influence of...

Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.

Whether it’s a bad economy, a cheap competitor, bad leads, or a personal challenge, Long provides step-by-step advice on how you can make committed, consistent activities part of your daily sales routine so you will consistently be rewarded with the sales you deserve.

This breakthrough insight from entrepreneur Kevin D. St. Clergy explains why so many successful business leaders feel stuck despite working harder than ever. After building and selling his own company, Kevin discovered that most entrepreneurs aren't lazy, unfocused, or lacking in drive—they're simply solving the wrong problems with remarkable precision.

The title comes from the story of the Phoenix—a Greek legend of a bird/dragon that arises from the ashes of its predecessor—being born again. It relates to the situations people may be in now—low achievement, lack of success, mediocrity.

Nobody Is Smarter Than Everybody questions the conventional thinking that prescribes how we organize work. For well over one hundred years, the centralized top-down hierarchy has served as the prototypical model for managing the work of large numbers of people. Despite its longstanding presence in everyday social life, the centralized top-down hierarchy is an idea whose time has passed.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

Our brains are not wired for optimal, coolheaded, and slow decisions. They are wired for fast, survival-oriented, and emotion-based reactions. It’s time to understand your primal mental tendencies and make more deliberate, coolheaded choices. Stop deciding on autopilot. You can do better. Neuroscience and Decision-Making breaks down the chemical and physiological events in the brain that lead to sometimes unwanted choices. The solution is not personality-related; it’s awareness-related.

Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results—even in uncertain times. More importantly, this book helps leaders to understand that while business operations optimization may have value in certain circumstances, it can also adversely affect a leader's management style, his or her message and replace strategic thought with short-term focus and gratification.

This program is read by the author. It also includes a bonus conversation between the author and Amnon Levav, cofounder and chief innovation officer at Systematic Inventive Thinking, and an additional conversation with the author and Bob Johnston, founder and managing associate at the Strategy...

This book adds examples from over twenty years of experience by Dr. Liker in working with companies outside of Toyota. This audiobook treats you as a student who will be actively engaged in developing lean leader skills as you read. It acts as a tutorial for beginning the journey!

Filled with innovative strategies for success from a former branding expert, Emotion By Design will show you how to create an empowering brand that resonates deeply with people by unlocking the creativity within your organization and unleashing it out into the world. "The branding lessons in...

In The Strategy Trap, veteran operator and former Nike executive Kevin Ertell delivers a no-nonsense guide to solving the problem every leader faces: why great plans so often go nowhere. Drawing on 30+ years of experience leading execution at global brands like Nike, Sur La Table, Borders, and Tower Records, Ertell shares the hard-won lessons that separate companies that move from vision to results—and those that don't. You'll learn how to avoid the traps that derail even the smartest strategies and how to build the systems, habits, and leadership practices that bring ideas to life.

Clarity doesn’t require certainty—just intention. Life’s most important decisions rarely come with clear answers. Whether you’re navigating career changes, health challenges, difficult relationships, or shifting priorities, the weight of uncertainty can feel overwhelming—and the fear of making the “wrong” choice can leave you stuck.

ORGANIZATIONS must accelerate strategic results to thrive, and they need you in the driver’s seat. How do you achieve this, even when firefighting is the norm? With three decades helping organizations deliver change, 2021 World PMO Influencer Laura Barnard unveils the system she uses with clients and students to evolve stagnant project and transformation teams into nimble, business-driven delivery engines.

Saber o seu propósito é só o começo. Neste audiolivro inédito, Joel Jota te conduz em uma jornada de transformação: sair da teoria e finalmente agir com intenção. Porque propósito sem ação é só intenção perdida. Com reflexões poderosas, perguntas provocativas e direcionamento prático, você vai entender como transformar seu chamado interior em atitudes diárias que constroem uma vida de sentido, impacto e coerência. Aqui, não tem espaço para o piloto automático. Se você sabe que tem algo maior para viver, mas ainda está travado entre o “saber” e o “fazer”, este conteúdo é para você.

We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also unpredictable, spending large stretches of time idling or distracting themselves. This is a book about how to optimize these beautiful yet fitful instruments so that they can more regularly and generously produce the sort of insights and ideas we need to fulfill our potential and achieve the contentment we deserve.

Современное издание в стильной мягкой обложке с клапанами, на которых вы найдете самые важные цитаты из книги. Качественная белая бумага и большие удобные поля для заметок помогут не потерять нужную информацию и получить от чтения максимум пользы. Обновленный впервые за более чем сорок лет вневременной бестселлер Дейла Карнеги "Как перестать беспокоиться и начать жить" — классика, которая улучшила и изменила личную и профессиональную жизнь миллионов людей. Это одна из самых влиятельных книг в мире, она входит во все списки бестселлеров и переведена почти на все языки.

Whether you are retail employee or a budding entrepreneur, or really just someone looking to contribute to your place of work, you will surely encounter problems that require planning and analysis to address them. What you may not know is that, most of the time statistics, specifically probability and its concepts, will often give you an edge in identifying solutions and strategies to help you move forward with a great plan.