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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. This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies.

A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April! Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave? Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie? Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take a chance and keep the...

Why am I doing everything right and still feel behind? Why can’t I turn my brain off? I want to feel like me again, not just responsible. I look successful but I’m drowning, and not sure how long I can keep going. This is for women in business done doing it “right” and losing themselves in the process. No more forcing strategies that were not for you. We talk about business, self-leadership, and Human Design, but really this is about seeing what’s actually underneath the stress and pressure you’ve been carrying, so you can lead in a way that finally stops draining you. Let’s ...

You've built a successful business. But behind the revenue, the weight of complex decisions, financial pressure, and high-level leadership can feel heavier than anyone sees.Hi, I'm Erin — Strategic Holistic Advisor, former Certified Financial Planner, and former CFO. I work with seven-figure female founders who are carrying the complexity of their business alone.I translate advice from your CPA, attorneys, bookkeeper, financial planner, and insurance team into clear decisions so you can lead with confidence instead of pressure.This podcast is for female founders who want clarity in complex ...

Achieve financial peace of mind with the million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller, now revised and updated for 2018, featuring an entirely new Financial Empowerment Plan and a bonus chapter on investing. The time has never been more right for women to take control of their finances. The...

Want to know how elite performers really think? Not just in business, but across every high-stakes field imaginable? Super Powered brings you inside the minds of extraordinary achievers who've mastered success in the world's most demanding environments. From the boardroom to the poker table, from crisis zones to Formula 1 pits - these are the people who've cracked the code of peak performance when it matters most. Each week, you'll hear from two types of leaders: • Business innovators with unexpected backgrounds and unconventional approaches • Elite performers from outside business who've ...

Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors' years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold, shows how companies generate lasting value.

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

Timeless and effective business lessons from twenty-one top CEOs Every business leader—from manager to entrepreneur—wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world’s most successful CEOs. Boss Talk presents twenty-one CEOs who give expert advice on issues important to today’s...

What if the way we understand the world is fundamentally incomplete? In The Touch Points, Julia Karmaz Larsen presents a sharp, systems-level exploration of economic models, globalization, and the forces shaping modern society. Moving beyond traditional business thinking, the book examines...