Business & economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving

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,...

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.

   Research in psychology has...

The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization

by Peter F. Drucker & Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute

With Peter Drucker's five essential questions and the help of five of today's thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives...

The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

by Steven M. Bragg

Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Second Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook...

Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time

by George B. Bradt & Mary Vonnegut

A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive—FAST

"Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed quickly...

Manufacturing Best Practices

by Bobby Hull

World-class tools for businesses to create their own manufacturing best practices

Providing best practices used throughout the manufacturing sector, Manufacturing Best Practices takes currently available manufacturing...

Innovative Corporate Performance Management: Five Key Principles to Accelerate Results

by Bob Paladino

Award-winning strategies to drive game changing meaningful results during the most challenging economy in decades

Drawing from executive and thought leader Bob Paladino's research and advisory experiences and...

Social Psychology and Economics

by David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg & J. Keith Murnighan

This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world.

It provides insights...

Supply Chain as Strategic Asset: The Key to Reaching Business Goals

by Vivek Sehgal

Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages through strategy realization

How can your supply chain create competitive advantages and help achieve business goals? Drawing from the author's abundant research...

Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: Prescriptions for a Leadership Headache Pain-Free for 30 days

by Gerald M Czarnecki

There is not a leader out there that hasn't felt the "pain of leadership headaches."  What you have here is a collection of messages that are offered as a prescription for those who find that leadership makes...

How Stella Saved the Farm

by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble

How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen. Written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, the story resonates...

From Know-How to Do-How: The Short and Simply Guide to Making Change Happen

by Dave Corbet

Everyone knows how to effect change, in themselves and in those around them, don't they? Change that actually brings about - change. Not necessarily. If you find yourself frustrated with getting the same result,...

Decision Making and Problem Solving

by John Adair

Ensuring innovation and a creative approach to new challenges is crucial in leadership success. Being able to communicate and share your ideas takes no less skill. Decision Making and Problem Solving Strategies...

Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice

by Evan Stubbs

AVOID THE MISTAKES THAT OTHERS MAKE – LEARN WHAT LEADS TO BEST PRACTICE AND KICKSTART SUCCESS

This groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting...

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques

by Michael Michalko

Rethink the Way You Think

In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?

In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity...

Creative Intelligence

by Bruce Nussbaum

The first book to identify and explore Creative Intelligence as a new form of cultural literacy and a method for driving innovation and sparking start-up capitalism

The world is quickly changing in ways we find...

Handbook of Decision Analysis

by Gregory S. Parnell, Terry Bresnick & Steven N. Tani

A ONE-OF-A-KIND GUIDE TO THE BEST PRACTICES IN DECISION ANALYSIS

Decision analysis provides powerful tools for addressing complex decisions that involve uncertainty and multiple objectives, yet most training...

Essentials of Enterprise Compliance

by Susan D. Conway

Expert guidance for a proven compliance framework

Governing the Think Factory provides readers with an in-depth look at organizational compliance requirements within three major areas: corporate governance, operational...

Corporate Performance Management Best Practices: A Case Study Approach to Accelerating CPM Results

by Bob Paladino

Business improvement best practices and a proven methodology for improving corporate performance management, illustrated through a high performing program including numerous team case studies

Corporate performance...

Bricks Matter: The Role of Supply Chains in Building Market-Driven Differentiation

by Lora M. Cecere & Charles W. Chase

Get proven guidance to build a market-driven supply chain management system

Supply chain management processes have gradually shifted from a supply-driven focus to a demand-driven one in order to better synchronize...