Business & economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Playing to Wiin: Nintendo and the Video Game Industrys Greatest Comeback

by Daniel Sloan

How Nintendo reclaimed its spot at the top of one of the world's most competitive industries

Nintendo was once the dominant force in home video gaming--until Sony and Microsoft pummeled them with powerful new...

Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work

by Frank Leistner

Get your organization's expertise out of its silos and make it flow-with lessons from over a decade of experience

Looking at knowledge management in a holistic way, Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How...

Hyperformance: Using Competitive Intelligence for Better Strategy and Execution

by T. J. Waters

Effective strategies for outsmarting the competition and driving better bottom-line results

In this groundbreaking book, T.J. Waters has turned his experience collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence...

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

by John Kay

"John Kay tells a fast-paced detective story as he searches for the surprising secret to success...Brilliant."

-Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life

In this revolutionary book, economist John Kay proves...

The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create It, Build it, and Use It to Maximum Effect

by John L. Nesheim

A Silicon Valley veteran and author of the bestseller High Tech Start Up reveals the nature of unfair advantage -- that holy grail for every company, the mysterious quality that separates successful businesses...

The Metaknowledge Advantage: The Key to Success in the New Economy

by Rafael Aguayo

In the tradition of the bestselling Intellectual Capital, internationally recognized management and quality expert Rafael Aguayo shows how integrated mastery of many areas of knowledge --

MetaKnowledge -- can...

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...

Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People

by Ken Watanabe

The fun and simple problem-solving guide that took Japan by storm

Ken Watanabe originally wrote Problem Solving 101 for Japanese schoolchildren. His goal was to help shift the focus in Japanese education from...

Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business

by Kay-Yut Chen & Marina Krakovsky

Taking behavioral economics from the cocktail party to the boardroom, with dramatic results

Books like Predictably Irrational and Nudge have brought behavioral economics into the mainstream. But while we all...

How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

by Rushworth M. Kidder

Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for the kids' education? Protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? Have a heart-to-heart with a lying employee or fire him on the spot?

All...

Flip: How Counter-Intuitive Thinking is Changi

by Peter Sheahan

What do the superstars of modern business have in common? An ability to "flip"—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions. one of the youngest and fastest-rising...

Decision Making Process: Concepts and Methods

by Denis Bouyssou, Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

This book provides an overview of the main methods and results in the formal study of the human decision-making process, as defined in a relatively wide sense. A key aim of the approach contained here is to...

Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation

by John Patrick Jordan, Neville P. Clarke & Gale A. Buchanan

In a world facing chronic and increasing shortages in food crops and natural resources, visionary leadership in agriculture becomes more and more critical for building and maintaining a sustainable future. It...

Business Continuity: Playbook

by Bob Hayes, Kathleen Kotwica & Dean Correia

The Business Continuity playbook provides the background and tools to create, manage, and execute all facets of an organization's business continuity program (BCP). Business continuity planning is an activity...

Accomplish The Impossible: The Six Secrets of Sustainability and Transformation for Business, Art, Science & Life: Revealing Wisdom Hidden in the Enne

by Steffan Soule

Through the power of the symbol known as the Enneagram, Steffan Soule unlocks a system for a new way of thinking that shows how to successfully master every important process. Based on the author's thirty years...

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

by Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan

Jim Paul’s meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to Governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all—his fortune, his reputation, and his job—in one fatal moment of...

IT (Information Technology) Portfolio Management Step-by-Step: Unlocking the Business Value of Technology

by Bryan Maizlish & Robert Handler

Praise for IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step

"Bryan Maizlish and Robert Handler bring their deep experience in IT 'value realization' to one of the most absent of all IT management practices--portfolio management....

The Gamification Revolution: How Leaders Leverage Game Mechanics to Crush the Competition

by Gabe Zichermann & Joselin Linder

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE GAMIFIED

MASTER THE GAMIFIED STRATEGIES THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOURBUSINESS--OR BE LEFT BEHIND

Gamification: It's the hottest new strategy in business, and for good reason--it's helping leading...

Workforce Asset Management Book of Knowledge

by Lisa Disselkamp

The official study guide for the Workforce Management Technology Certification, containing core knowledge for time and labor management

The worldwide standard for the time and labor management technology profession,...

Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity

by Alan Siegel & Irene Etzkorn

For decades, Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn have championed simplicity as a competitive advantage and a consumer right. Consulting with businesses and organizations around the world to streamline products, services,...