Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup....

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves....

In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us....

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones....

The secret to business success is intuition. It's not just a matter of following you hunches. It's about following the right hunches....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

In The Book of Beautiful Questions, Berger shares illuminating stories and compelling research on the power of inquiry. Drawn from the insights and expertise of psychologists, innovators, effective leaders and some of the world's foremost creative thinkers, he presents the essential questions readers need to make the best choices when it truly counts, with a particular focus in four key areas: decision-making, creativity, leadership and relationships.

A team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts.

Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this audiobook helps you analyze key decisions you've made in the past and troubleshoot those you're making in the future....

Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world....

Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs....

You'll not only get a better understanding of the forces that influence the world around you, but you'll learn how to direct those forces to create outsized advantages in the areas of your life that matter most to you....

Winning the Brain Game will lead you to better decision-making, higher levels of creativity, clearer strategies, and overall success in business, work and life....

Smartcuts is a narrative adventure that busts old myths about success and shows how innovators and icons do the incredible by working smarter....

Creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius....

IDEO reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation....

Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....

In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask questions.

Triggers confronts head on the challenges of behavior and change, looking at the external factors (or "triggers") - both negative and positive - that affect our behaviors....

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys, our list of fears seems to be exploding....

The companion to the blockbuster best seller, Getting Things Done. Since its publication in 2001, Getting Things Done has become, as Time magazine put it, "the defining self-help business book" of the decade....

As chief innovator and problem solver, the CTO’s value far exceeds technology skills. The CTO must lead as a highly visible first-class citizen of the C-suite....

In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age.

In Dante’s Renaissance-sparking Divine Comedy, Virgil guides the hero Dante through the many layers of Hell to reach paradise. Entrepreneurs, too, walk through a hellscape of risk so they may create wealth, freedom and meaning. Survival First ushers in a new Renaissance by guiding modern Dantes through this hellscape. Survival First humanizes risk by discarding academic jargon and complex formulas for simple logic, emotional realism and the stories of ordinary entrepreneurs.

After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!

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.

In The Power of Going All In, serial entrepreneur and sales leader Brandon Bornancin delivers a first-person account of what it takes to build, lead, and manage a world-class company. The author draws on his many years of experience launching and managing successful companies to present effective strategies for inspiring your people to do more, be more, and achieve more.

Olivier Sibony se baseia em estudos de caso fascinantes para mostrar o que leva cada um de nós—inclusive os empresários mais renomados—a cair nas nove armadilhas comuns na hora de tomar uma decisão. Em vez de discutir velhas técnicas, Sibony fornece métodos concretos para ajudar líderes e gestores a fazerem as melhores escolhas possíveis.

Data Leadership for Everyone is a game-changing book for anyone who believes in the power of data and is ready to create revolutionary change in their organization. Whether you're a C-suite executive, a manager, or an individual contributor, this book will propel your career by unlocking the mystery of how raw data transforms into real outcomes.

Viele Agenturen machen zu wenig Gewinn. Sind alle Ausgaben gedeckt, bleibt wenig übrig für eine ausreichende Rücklagenbildung, für Investitionen und als "Lohn" für das unternehmerische Risiko. Die Ursache dafür bleibt oft unerkannt: Eine Preisfindung, die nicht auf Gewinnerzielung, sondern auf Kostendeckung fokussiert. Kostenrechnung, Stundensatz und Zeiterfassung sind die vorherrschenden Methoden zur Preisfindung und zur "Unternehmenssteuerung" in Agenturen. Jedoch begrenzen diese Ideen und Werkzeuge den Gewinn deiner Agentur und auch den Gewinn deiner Kunden.

Reden ist leicht, das Umsetzen aber fällt häufig schwer. Ob beruflich oder privat, viele Ideen bleiben im Anfangsstadium hängen, weil es an Umsetzungsstärke fehlt. Aber was macht Umsetzungsstärke eigentlich aus? Holen Sie sich mit diesem Hörbuch kompakte Tipps und setzen Sie Ihre Projekte und Vorhaben ab jetzt erfolgreich um.

When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” guiding our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from the cognitive sciences, economics, and public policy, Guardrails offers a novel approach to shaping decisions by embracing human agency in its social context.

With input from over twenty experts combined with useful checklists, sample agendas, and follow-up memos, the HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter will teach you how to set and communicate your meeting's purpose; invite the right people; prepare an achievable agenda; moderate a lively conversation; regain control of a wayward meeting; and ensure follow-through without babysitting or haranguing.

In The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions veteran tech innovator John Wolpert delivers an exciting hands-on guide to using the principles of Momentum Thinking to get you—and your organization—unstuck. You'll learn how to build unstoppable velocity for your big idea, product, or strategy as you blast through the endless objections and counterarguments that bedevil every innovator and changemaker.

In Strategy in the Age of Disruption, a team of dedicated strategists delivers an exciting and practical guide to Industry 4.0, a commercial transformation that's impacting every facet of the market, the environment, and our social lives. You'll learn what Industry 4.0 is, what it means for you and your company, and how you—as a leader, manager, expert, entrepreneur, or investor—can capitalize on it and put it into practice.

Millions of subject-matter experts, functional leaders, requirements gatherers, and problem solvers have opportunities to influence every day. Instead, too often they merely respond to requests and take orders from their stakeholders. By not exercising their unknown superpower, they miss opportunities to break down silos, improve collaboration, and accelerate the best decisions for the organization. This book is designed to help people discover the most impactful approach to influencing without authority, coercion, manipulation or force.

In this groundbreaking work, René Schröder uncovers the hidden reefs and currents that organizations often overlook on their journey to agility. With over two decades of experience in agile transformation, he draws a map of the most common mistakes and shows you how to avoid them. This book is not a theoretical guide - it's a practical, real-life guide that walks you through the real challenges and opportunities of agility.