Management Problem Solving

The ancient Stoics had something. Modern psychology proved they were right. But there's a third option nobody's talking about. Picture those people who stay weirdly calm when everything goes wrong. Not the fake-zen types pretending life's all crystals and gratitude journals. The ones who genuinely don't lose their heads when the world's on fire. They're not built different. They're running different software.

Learn the connection between identity and Self-Leadership as you explore the issues that have developed your peripheral identity.

The key to making better decisions is found in the capability of unity in diversity. By going beyond traditional patterns of relationships based on unity in uniformity and division in diversity, we discover how diversity can enrich our understanding and lead to better decisions. We can learn to work harmoniously with those who have a different profession, race, culture, or way of thinking. By taking advantage of diversity, we not only make better decisions but can also carry out more complex projects than what we could do with a group of people who all think the same.

You’re a high performer who wants a career on your own terms. Maybe you’re exploring the next best step. Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you want more. No matter where you are right now, you need options. When you have options, you’re in control. You make decisions from a position of strength. You run to something, not from something. Options Are Power provides strategies for surrounding yourself with options. You’ll learn to lead with a me-suite mindset, cultivating the role you want work to play in your life.

Business profitability and growth are primary factors in determining business strategy and goals. By utilizing and integrating the two power tools of risk management and key performance indicators you can position your organization to move toward a proactive management style that supports these goals. This book provides practical guidance on how your company can incorporate this approach without utilizing large dollar expenditure for consulting fees and/or internal resources.

This book draws on the insights of the author's earlier book, Lessons from Mars, providing a set of the powerful tools and exercises developed within the Mars Corporation to create high performance teams. These tools have been adapted for teams suddenly forced to work apart, in many cases for the first time. These simple secrets and tested techniques have been used by thousands of teams who know that creating a foundation of team identity and shared meaning makes them resilient, even in a time of crisis.

In The Ugly Truth About Cash, Ruth King reveals many of the ways thieves steal from hard working entrepreneurs. This audiobook gives business owners what to look out for, and the procedures to implement that will protect their hard earned cash and assets. Through stories and lessons learned from entrepreneurs who have been there, you'll discover how to handle such situations.

Based on his experiences running design sprints for top companies, Douglas Ferguson authored Beyond the Prototype to offer practical advice for people shifting from discovery to realization. Full of stories from companies like Google, Liberty Mutual, and Adobe, this guide outlines six steps that every team should take to launch their vision.

For many organizations, the word strategy conjures up endless ideas, concepts, and tools - while the intent is correct, the awful reality is most companies do not have a simple, common definition of strategy or a simple approach to make the big decisions. Too many PowerPoints, not enough one pagers that can be put into practice. The lack of a common approach to strategy frustrates executives, creates conflict where there is none, fast-tracks dubious alternatives, lengthens decision-making, and hampers the quality of the decisions that finally emerge.

Decision-making is a critical part of management, and bad choices can damage careers and the bottom line. This book offers the tools and advice managers need to avoid common biases and arrive at and implement decisions that are both sound and ethical.

Stop living paycheck to paycheck. Take charge of your money on your own terms...today! You can begin using simple strategies to build wealth, manage debt effectively, and build financial security. In this audiobook you will learn: How to become accountable to yourself, wealth creation and freedom, active income and passive income, risk versus return of investing, saving versus paying off debt, and so much more!

David King is a Life & Leadership coach who works primarily with Orthodontists. His coaching, events, and presentations challenge Doctors to consider what is REALLY keeping them from the Freedom, Fulfillment, and Legacy they desire. In this book, David walks you through the exact “FREEDOM MAPPING” process he uses to create personal and professional transformation for Orthodontists all over the United States. David began his career in 2002 as a management consultant and has been coaching clients in Life, Mindset, Business, and Health since 2004.

HR by Design is the playbook for developing creative and human-focused solutions to everyday human resources (HR) challenges. The book first provides a thorough overview of design thinking and various stories from successful HR professionals on how they solve HR-related problems in their day-to-day lives. Jodi Brandstetter utilizes a current challenge most HR professionals are facing to show how design thinking can be the best methodology for the HR industry. By the end of the book, you will have a better understanding of design thinking.

The world around us is comprised of systems - organisational systems, business systems, political systems, family systems, inter-personal systems, biological systems, economic systems - the list goes on. This audiobook, written by an experienced systems thinker and consultant, helps the reader develop an appreciation of the nature of systems - what they comprise of, how they function, how they sustain and organize themselves and what they influence and are influenced by.

Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? The answers lie in this book-length excerpt from the massive Freelancer's Survival Guide by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who will show you how to turn those inevitable setbacks into opportunity.

In Data Analytics: Using Big Data Analytics for Business to Increase Profits and Create Happy Customers, Matthew Adams reveals the reality of the big data analytics world, and outlines clear and actionable steps that will equip the listener with the tools needed for this next phase of human evolution. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use everyday data analytics for business to increase profitability and customer satisfaction.

You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.

Most people hate negotiating. Instead of learning it themselves, they hire someone - an agent, a lawyer, a manager - to negotiate for them. But negotiators often do not have their clients' best interests at heart. In this short audiobook, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to negotiate anything from buying a car to buying a house, from handling a book contract to handling a negotiator. If you have ever negotiated anything - and who hasn't? - then this book is for you.

Common Sense Wisdom is a short book with a big message about life and the important transitions, challenges, and changes planned or unplanned that we all must face from time to time. It is at moments like these that some common sense wisdom can help us understand what is happening or should happen, why it's happening or why it should, how we should respond to it or initiate it, and how we can best apply the insights and lessons from those who have been there and done that to our own lives.

Why do we make the same mistakes throughout our lives? The answer lies in our cognitive biases, and the solution to these struggles lies in learning how to spot and avoid our biases. Learn how to recognize the most common but costly cognitive biases and internalize this knowledge so that it becomes second nature, and you will start making good decisions instead of poor ones, and your life will change for good.