Business Problem Solving

A major investor is on line one, CNN is on line two, and social media is exploding in anger. When you're a "leader under fire", the next few moments can be an incredible opportunity...or they can destroy your career. In the past, companies prepared for crisis with expensive, static crisis communications plans. The pace was slower. You had time to process and plan a response with your senior team and lawyers. But those old-school plans don't work anymore.

It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills - and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These "bots" started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.

Unprecedented is an extraordinary business book for extraordinary times: a collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from twenty-nine chief executives at Canada’s most iconic and largest companies. These are unforgettable accounts from senior leaders at companies on the front lines during the pandemic—nursing homes, grocery stores, airlines, hotels, pharmacies, shopping malls—along with valuable lessons on crisis management. At their heart, these are stories about overcoming adversity.

Gary walks the listener through the steps of Andrea Lane, the VP of Manufacturing at Juggernaut Industries, as she tries to save her company from looming disaster. By listening to this short novel, you will experience, "first hand" the struggles she goes through to make massive change in a very short period of time. Sit in on the conversations she has with other managers, her supervisors, and the front line employees. Experience all the pains, angst, tears, and the joys of interacting with her coworkers and employees.

"All of us have Seven Slices in our lives: our Family Slice, our Professional Slice, our Personal Slice, our Physical Slice, our Intellectual Slice, our Emotional Slice, and our Spiritual Slice. These all need to be served in some fashion - and in serving them, they, in turn, serve us." This concept is at the heart of the method executive coach David McNeff has used to transform the lives and careers of his clients. It begins with two important facts: 1) Stress happens - you can't avoid it; and 2) Your existence is composed of far more than "work" and "life".

From the heat of the battlefield to the tension of the strategy room, The Unknown Enemy exposes a hidden threat that can bring even the most formidable military forces to their knees: Theory of Mind Errors. In this gripping exploration, Tim Short peels back the layers of human psychology to reveal how misjudgments, false assumptions, and cognitive traps turn victory into disaster.

باستخدام أمثلة من العالم الحقيقي وأبحاثه الرائدة، يوضح البروفيسور بانوري كيف أن أصغر القرارات لها تأثير عميق على حياتنا. من خلال فهم وتبسيط عملية صنع القرار الخاصة بك، سوف تكون قادرًا على اتخاذ خيارات بسيطة وفعالة لمساعدتك على الاقتراب من تطلعاتك وتحقيق أهدافك.

Analyze. Assess. Explore. Create... If the Decisions You Make Are Important, This is the Most Important Self-Improvement Program You Will Ever Take. What is thinking? How do you approach difficult, make plans, arrive at decisions? In this one-of-a-kind audio workshop, Dr. Edward de Bono, an...

«سيساعدك هذا الكتاب (ويحفزك) على إعادة التفكير فيما كنت تعتقد أنك تعرفه عن السلوك وعملية اتخاذ القرارات. وسوف يظهر لك كيفية تجنب الفخاخ التي وضعتها بعض الكتابات الشائعة للغاية (والخاطئة بشكل خطير) حول هذا الموضوع. سوف يفاجئك هذا الكتاب، وسوف يتحدى تفكيرك (وتفكير زملائك) بطريقة مثمرة للغاية، وستكون قراءته ممتعة». أدريان سليوتسكي، مؤلف كتاب The Profit Zone

En Inteligencia primitiva, Fletcher comparte ejercicios para entrenar esta parte descuidada de nuestro cerebro, los cuales mejorarán tus habilidades de liderazgo, tu capacidad de innovación y tu resiliencia. Esta es una guía transformadora que cambiará tu vida y que liberará todo el potencial de tu cerebro.

التفكير التكاملي فكرة قوية تقدم حلول جديدة لأصعب مشاكلنا. في هذا العمل المقنع، يوضح لنا رييل ومارتن كيفية استخدام هذا النموذج العقلي الجديد لاتخاذ خيارات رائعة بدلًا من تسوية تنازلات واهية. يعج هذا الكتاب بنصائح عملية وتمارين جذابة ورؤى ثاقبة، وهو في متناول كل قائد يحاول الإبحار نحو المستقبل

أنا أُفضل حل المشكلات؛ فأذكى مدير كنت أعمل تحت إشرافه غرس فيّ هذا الأمر مبكرًا في مسيرتي المهنية: "أنا لا أدفع لك لتأتيني بالمشكلات، بل أدفع لك لإيجاد حلول. عُد عندما تكون لديك حلول". بالنسبة لشخص محترف يخطو خطواته الأولى، كانت هذه نصيحة رائعة.

Servant Command introduces a powerful leadership framework that fuses the humility of servant leadership with the clarity and decisiveness of command. Drawing from real-world experience in field leadership and graduate studies in organizational change, Rob R. Lipski offers a fresh, actionable approach to leading teams, solving complex problems, and driving organizational transformation.

Hiring and firing are hard to get right - and potentially costly to get wrong. Two of the most crucial tasks you face as a manager, they are vital to both the success of the enterprise...and your own career. No need to worry. This handy guide breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to bring better employees onboard - and weed out the weaker ones.

"Beyond the Odds" offers a nuanced exploration of risk perception and management, challenging conventional wisdom and providing fresh insights into how individuals and organizations perceive, assess, and respond to risks. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and real-world examples, this book examines the cognitive biases and psychological factors that influence risk perception, shedding light on why people often overestimate or underestimate risks.

Vergiss klassische Karriere-Ratgeber mit leeren Versprechungen – dieses Buch ist anders. Eine Mischung aus Roman und Sachbuch. Hier bekommst du echte Einblicke, mutige Perspektiven und erprobte Strategien, die dich weiterbringen.

During the early stages of coronavirus, Amy Moudy Comeau, MBA, an award-winning and acclaimed marketing executive, began writing weekly emails to her Emory Healthcare marketing team every Friday, as a form of encouragement and support to get them through eight weeks of shelter-in-place, which turned into a three-year pandemic.

イシュー思考は、目的を少ない時間と手間で超速で達成する、いわば、〝超特急〞のような思考法ですので、ビジネスパーソンはもちろん、研究者や学生も含め、多くの方々が使えるようになってほしいものです。

It seems like every day we're faced with new challenges and problems that we don't have the answers to. How do we make decisions when we don't know what the right answer is? This audiobook is the answer! Critical Thinking and Stoicism will show you how to think in mental models to develop effective decision-making and problem-solving skills. You'll also learn how to apply the principles of stoicism to your everyday life, so you can help develop better decision-making skills, problem-solve more effectively, and stay positive in any situation.

The Power to Thrive! draws on proven research to show how we all can reach beyond the superficial meaning of success to help us achieve a meaningful impact - in our homes, in our offices, and in everyday life. Kay provides the formula for achieving better results, fulfillment, and appreciation in everything we do.