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From the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that...
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Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry. A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness. As a leader, you have work that is complex, full of ups and downs. Your ability to be resilient-to pick yourself up after setbacks and keep on going no matter the challenges-is critical not only to successful leadership but also to fostering teams, generating collaboration, and igniting your organization. In this breakthrough book, veteran consultants...
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"For every algorithm that purports to mitigate bias, enable sophisticated thinking under time pressure, or leverage big data to simplify complex questions, there are loads of choices that require creative, reflective, and thoughtful interpretation of subjective human experience -- something artificial intelligence and rigorous analytics cannot yet replicate. What do we do when the obvious conclusion from a rigorous spreadsheet doesn't align to our...
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©2006.
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Real organizational change isn't brought about by decree, pressure, permission, or even persuasion. Sustained change comes when people are passionately and personally committed to a future that they have helped to shape. If you want to turn your organization's cynics into owners, give them a voice in the decisions that impact their work. Consensus through Conversation shows how. Consensus is a cooperative process in which all of a group's members...
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"Wise Decisions is a science-based approach to embedding timeless wisdom in adolescents, young adults, and adults. In a span of 15 minutes, we can make ten or more small decisions. Some decisions are inconsequential, and others can change the trajectory of our lives for years. Just as success in business depends on the decisions made, so also does enduring success in our personal lives. Decisions can be wise or foolish, considered or automatic, conscious...
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©2015
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Make better decisions - every day, everywhere! Decide and Conquer, Second Edition brings together all the practical skills you need to do just that. This quick, concise book identifies every key obstacle to quality decision-making and shows exactly how to overcome them. You'll discover how your personality impacts your decision-making, why instincts and experience can lead you astray, how to simplify complex decisions without oversimplifying them...
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©2012
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Save time, energy and life-sapping stress with this gloriously simple, clever and highly effective guide to painless and efficient decision making. This light-hearted and practical guide will help you turn your indecision into positive, assertive action. Guiding you through the entire decision making process, it is packed with clever tips and tricks to help you make the right decision, quickly, first time, every time. From work to buying a house;...
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2014
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If you need to be in the know in no time at all, Business Express will get you from beginner to brilliant in the blink of an eye. This fast, focused and carefully crafted eBook will help you pick up all the essential knowledge you need about the skills that matter most at work, all in the shortest possible time. Learn just when you need to or well in advance; read it at your desk or on the move; dip in and out or start from scratch - it's all up to...
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Aug. 2003
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Decide and Conquer brings together all the practical skills you need to make the best possible decisions every day. This quick, concise book identifies every key obstacle to quality decision-making... and shows exactly how to overcome them. Discover how your personality impacts your decision-making... why instincts and experience can lead you astray... how to simplify complicated decisions without oversimplifying them... and much more. You'll use...
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2005.
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Drawing on her breakthrough research with 115 CEOs, Luda Kopeikina offers practical, proven techniques for structuring decisions, achieving clarity about the real issues involved, and using that clarity to improve the quality of every decision you make. Kopeikina begins by defining clarity in decision-making, identifying five root causes for decision difficulty, and introducing the "Clarity State": that singular moment of focus where things fall into...
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©2008
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Praise for The Truth About Making Smart Decisions " The Truth About Making Smart Decisions offers a truly valuable and entertaining journey through the complex terrain of decision making. Robert Gunther combines a writer's gift of the pen with a keen understanding of human nature, drawing upon his own experiences, business anecdotes, and vignettes from other walks of life. His selection of traps, insights, and truths are edifying as well as amusing,...
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2023.
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The world is changing faster and faster, with increasing uncertainty and threat of disruption in every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work--there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to "when change abates." Most company planning processes are fantasy; market conditions are changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful....
16) Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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2019.
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Avoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and poor decisions.
Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns-what scholars call "cognitive biases"-and are preventable.
Unfortunately, the typical advice...
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[2022]
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"Algorithms and apps analyze data and tell you how to beat the traffic, what books to buy, what music to listen to, and even who to date-often with great results. But what do you do when you face the big decisions of life-the "wild problems" of who to marry, whether to have children, where to move, how to forge a life well-lived-that can't be solved by measurement or calculation? In Wild Problems, beloved host of EconTalk Russ Roberts offers puzzled...
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Showing you how you can double-down and win with a proven data-driven approach, this book will teach you how to use loyalty programs, analytics, and technology to drive phenomenal transformational change and rapid revenue growth within your own organization. --
20) Move to the edge, declare it center: practices and processes for creatively solving complex problems
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Lead your organizations, solve problems, and sustain your company's growth with effective practices for complex, uncertain, and unpredictable environments In Move to the Edge, Declare it Center, CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You'll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure...
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