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

Outsmart the traps that are holding you back from success

Trap Tales is your guide to avoiding the seven obstacles that ensnare people every day. We all fall into traps, and we often don't even realize it until we're deeply entrenched. Like quicksand, traps are easy to step into, but difficult to escape--it seems that the harder we try to climb out, the deeper we sink. But what if there were another way? What if we knew the right strategies to escape the traps we have fallen into? What if we could spot traps from a distance, and avoid them entirely?

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It's no secret: marketing punches below its weight in the Boardroom. CEOs and other board members perceive that marketers lack commercial credibility when compared to their peers.　

Marketing in the Boardroom helps marketers to be more commercially credible and thereby more successful in the Boardroom.

Ruth Saunders explains the importance of marketing in the Boardroom, and why marketers often struggle to engage the Board. She then shows how to develop compelling marketing strategies that the Board will buy into, offering a mix of practical solutions and varied...

It's no secret: marketing punches below its weight in the Boardroom. CEOs and other board members perceive that marketers lack commercial credibility when compared to their peers.　

Marketing in the Boardroom helps marketers to be more commercially credible and thereby more successful in the Boardroom.

Ruth Saunders explains the importance of marketing in the Boardroom, and why marketers often struggle to engage the Board. She then shows how to develop compelling marketing strategies that the Board will buy into, offering a mix of practical solutions and varied...

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Helene Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision making form a cognitive system that ensures that decisions taken by the many are more likely to be right than decisions taken by the few. Democracy as a form of government is therefore...

Der Autor stellt einen Koordinations-Mechanismus vor, der es ermoglicht, die fur die Umsetzung einer Lieferantenentwicklung notwendigen Investitionen zielgerichtet zwischen Abnehmer und Zulieferer aufzuteilen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird die Rolle der Lieferantenentwicklung als relevanter Wettbewerbsfaktor analysiert und aufgezeigt, in welcher Weise die ihr inharente Faktorspezifitat die Investitionsbereitschaft der einzelnen Akteure beeinflusst. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung belegen, dass die Entwicklung eines Zulieferers als ein interorganisationales Planungsproblem zu verstehen ist,...

This volume presents advanced techniques to modeling markets, with a wide spectrum of topics, including advanced individual demand models, time series analysis, state space models, spatial models, structural models, mediation, models that specify competition and diffusion models. It is intended as a follow-on and companion to Modeling Markets (2015), in which the authors presented the basics of modeling markets along the classical steps of the model building process: specification, data collection, estimation, validation and implementation. This volume builds on the concepts...

You have built your business from the ground up and you are finally ready to sell. However, you might be facing three major problems:

1.       You don’t know enough qualified buyers that will pay what your company is worth.

2.       You do not have the expertise to negotiate the complexities of a business sale.

3.       You are so busy running your business, you do not have the time required to properly market, negotiate and handle all the required...