Business & economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Rules to Break and Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism

by Don Peppers & Martha Rogers

Praise for Rules to Break & Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism

"A fascinating, highly readable synthesis of business principles, technology, sociology and common sense, Rules...

Location Location Location

by Marcel De Meirleir

Choosing the right location for a business can assure its success, and avoid costly problems. Location, Location, Location examines this foundational aspect of business profitability, and outlines the principles...

Profiting From Uncertainty: Strategies for Succeeding No Matter What the Future Brings

by Paul Schoemaker

What manager is not anxious about the future? We live in a white-knuckled age of rapid technological change and global instability. But uncertainty is not the enemy, says management expert Paul J. H. Schoemaker....

Behavioural Economics and Finance

by Michelle Baddeley

Standard models in economic and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of the price mechanism. Whilst these approaches produce...

Decision Making in Complex Environments

by Malcolm Cook & Jan Noyes

Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks involving information processing. The complex systems...

Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

by Michael Blyth

Praise for Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

"In Business Continuity Management, Blyth has once again produced a comprehensive guide to the subject. Whether a multinational...

Strategic Planning for the Family Business

by Randel S. Carlock & Craig E Aronoff

From small start-ups to giant multinationals, from the Mom-and-Pop owned barber shop to Ford, family owned businesses continue to dominate the world economy. Regardless of size, running a successful family firm...

Trust

by Kathy Bloomgarden

TRUST: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders taps into a powerful current in American business - the importance of trust in a business's corporate strategy.  In today's environment, leaders who add...

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

For fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, a revelatory new look at how we make decisions

A New York Times bestsellerAn Economist Best Book of the...

The Savage Way: Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business and Life

by Frank Savage

Inspiring lessons on business and life from Frank Savage

Frank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education,...

Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset

by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly & Jac Fitz-enz

An insightful look at the implementation of advanced analytics on human capital

Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining...

Framing Decisions: Decision-Making that Accounts for Irrationality, People and Constraints

by J. Davidson Frame

The economic crisis of 2008–2009 was a transformational event: it demonstrated that smart people aren't as smart as they and the public think. The crisis arose because a lot of highly educated people in high-impact...

Leadership in Organizations: There is a Difference Between Leaders and Managers

by David I. Bertocci

Leadership in Organizations is the first in a series of three books written primarily for distance-learning students in online undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on management, leadership, and...

Supply Chain Transformation: Practical Roadmap to Best Practice Results

by Richard Sherman

Achieve best practices in supply chain management

Much is being written about global supply chain and sourcing options emerging in today's marketplace. Transforming supply chain management to achieve operations...

Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data

by Jean-Paul Isson & Jesse Harriott

Plain English guidance for strategic business analytics and big data implementation

In today's challenging economy, business analytics and big data have become more and more ubiquitous. While some businesses...

Six Sigma For Dummies

by Craig Gygi, Bruce Williams & Neil DeCarlo

The fast and easy way to understand and implement Six Sigma

The world's largest and most profitable companies—including the likes of GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel,...

No Boundaries: How to Use Time and Labor Management Technology to Win the Race for Profits and Productivity

by L. Disselkamp

An essential guide for putting workforce management systems to work for your business

Showing you how to take your business from reactive to proactive and improve performance, No Boundaries provides a vendor-neutral...

Guide to Supply Chain Management: How Getting It Right Boosts Corporate Performance

by David Jacoby

Globalization, technology and an increasingly competitive business environment have encouraged huge changes in what is known as supply chain management, the art of sourcing components and delivering finished...

Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-making in a Confused and Troubled World

by Paul A. Laudicina

The Answer to Global Overload

Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies among those at the top. But we all know,...

The Secrets of Facilitation: The SMART Guide to Getting Results with Groups

by Michael Wilkinson

The revised edition of this facilitation classic offers a wealth of targeted techniques for facilitators who seek effective, consistent, and repeatable results. Based on Michael Wilkinson's proven SMART (Structured...