Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Decision Making & Problem Solving

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's the art of anticipating your opponent's next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies--from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history--the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Mastering game theory will make you more successful in...

An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climate

Fear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead to new opportunities. It's easy to worry, give up and let fear paralyze you. However, you have more control than you think you do and how you handle adversity is your choice-and the only choice that matters. In fact, study history and you'll find that a lot of people and organizations made a name for themselves and grew their...

Managers need top-flight communication skills to keep their staffs productive and collaborative. But often, those who manage lack the ability to get things back on track once miscommunication occurs. This book helps readers analyze their communication skills and challenges and explains how they can use simple problem-solving techniques to resolve the people issues that derail productivity at work. Easily accessible and filled with real world management examples, the book shows readers how to: - Set clear expectations - Ask questions that will help them uncover the facts, meet business...

Enterprise Information Systems for Business Integration in SMEs: Technological, Organizational, and Social Dimensions discusses the impact of IT on every part of organizational and inter-organizational environments.

From columnist and bestselling author Suzy Welch comes a powerful, proven strategy for clarifying life choices.

We all want to lead a life of our own choosing. But in today's accelerated world of competing priorities, confounding options, and information overload, we can find ourselves steered by impulse, stress, or expedience. Are our decisions the right ones? Or are we being governed, time and again, and against our best intentions, by the demands of the moment? With 10-10-10, Welch proposes a transformative solution to this pressure, helping us tease apart our deepest...

The subtle nature of bias can cause leaders to be unaware of religiously based influences. The outcome can be both positive and negative. The leader can make decisions that are more effective by maximizing useful paradigms and constructs, or make less effective and inappropriate decisions through lack of evaluation of alternative approaches, data and responses. In either scenario, understanding ones internal nature is integral to maximizing ones leadership abilities. This qualitative study examined how United States commissioned and noncommissioned military leaders stationed in Europe...

With increased competition among business groups, companies need to enhance the value of their business and effectively manage individual firms. This book explores and elucidates business group and inter-firm management in Japanese environments, both theoretically and practically through case studies, survey research and other methodologies. In considering the concept of the "Keiretsu" in Japan, as well as other management methods employed by Japanese companies, this book provides extensive coverage on uniquely Japanese management methods. Examples are the application of evaluation system,...

Supervisors facing the problem of too much work and too little time should appreciate the 120 detailed lists presented here, which present over 1000 tips for successfully handling every aspect of their job, from dealing with people and managing time, to improving their communication skills.

Project Overview: What the Book's About

"It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine)

Performance is the reason why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. If a retailer won't stock goods a customer wants, the customer will shop...

How can the Web be made more useful, more intelligent, and more knowledge intensive to fulfill demanding learning and working needs? This work provides a simple, yet powerful visual language to structure readers' thoughts, analyze information, transform it to personal knowledge, and communicate information to support knowledge acquisition in collaborative activities.

Are you looking for new perspectives, creative ideas, or a deeper sense of meaning? Discover an enchanted new world of creative possibilities by harnessing -The Power of Thinking Differently: An imaginative guide to creativity, change, and the discovery of new ideas.- This humorously enlightening book is an easy to follow manual for accessing your brain's natural creativity. It explores creative thinking through psychology and neuroscience while also exercising the imagination through allegory, myth, puzzles, and jokes. All readers will be engaged as the book looks at the creative process...

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen Uberblick uber Optimierungsmethoden und stellt die wichtigsten Algorithmen dieses Gebiets dar. Daruber hinaus vermittelt es theoretische Grundlagen und begrundet die angewendeten Rechenverfahren. Entsprechend der Zielgruppe werden nur diejenigen mathematischen Kenntnisse vorausgesetzt, die in den Lehrveranstaltungen zur Einfuhrung in die Mathematik fur Wirtschaftswissenschaftler vermittelt werden.

Die Neuauflage wurde - unter Beibehaltung der Grundkonzeption des Buches - vollstandig uberarbeitet und um ein Kapitel uber Losungsheuristiken und insbesondere...

In Consistency, Choice, and Rationality, economic theorists Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura present a thorough mathematical treatment of Suzumura consistency, an alternative to established coherence properties such as transitivity, quasi-transitivity, or acyclicity. Applications in individual and social choice theory, fields important not only to economics but also to philosophy and political science, are discussed. Specifically, the authors explore topics such as rational choice and revealed preference theory, and collective decision making in an atemporal framework...

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior. The text presents a new model describing how resistance occurs over time and details what change proponents can do throughout three engagement periods to effectively work with hesitant colleagues. The book's findings are illuminated by examples of six different resistance cases, embedded in the transformation sagas of two real-world organizations. A...

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior. The text presents a new model describing how resistance occurs over time and details what change proponents can do throughout three engagement periods to effectively work with hesitant colleagues. The book's findings are illuminated by examples of six different resistance cases, embedded in the transformation sagas of two real-world organizations. A...

Why Organizational Change Fails aims to make change managers and OD consultants sensitive to signals of the robust part of an organization, helping them to see something different than they usually see: signs of change. The authors distinguish two aspects of stability in organisations: robustness and tenacity. Robustness is the ability of organisations to remain stable under changing conditions. Tenacity is the reaction of a robust system to planned change. Each of these aspects has its own unique qualities and value within organizations. In the book, the authors describe three aspects of...

In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management. The bulk of this volume is devoted to presenting a number of modeling approaches that have been (or could be) applied to enterprise risk management in construction.

For the first time since World War II, global output will drop (-1.7%); per capita income will fall in more than 50 developing countries; net private capital flows will likely turn negative a more than $700 billion drop from the 2007 peak; and trade is expected to decline by 6.1% in 2009 the worst decline in 80 years. In response to this global downturn, a number of governments have passed stimulus packages and other measures that aim to preserve domestic industries and jobs, and sometimes discriminate against foreign producers (e.g. buy local laws). The most recent forecasts announce a...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich VWL - Innovationsokonomik, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Institut fur Regionalforschung), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgenden Ausfuhrungen beschaftigen sich mit der Entstehung und Entwicklung von innovativen Agglomerationsraumen. Dazu werden die beiden US-amerikanischen Industriecluster Silicon Valley und Route 128 miteinander verglichen und die raumlichen Entwicklungsunterschiede dargestellt. Es wird dabei hauptsachlich auf die empirischen Arbeiten von AnnaLee Saxenian eingegangen.