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

How do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choices we make? What do our everyday personal decisions have in common with those made by groups, companies, and even nations?

In this innovative textbook, Nancy Kim presents a multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of judgment and decision-making. Throughout the book, insights from traditional cognitive approaches are combined with findings from fields as diverse as neuropsychology, behavioural economics, social, developmental and clinical psychology, and...

Individual professionals - highly educated, highly intelligent, and highly opinionated - are generally reluctant to see themselves as...

On the night of 8 November 2016, at 8:15 pm, India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced in a televised broadcast to the nation that with effect from midnight, currency notes of denominations Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 would no longer be legal tender. In one stroke, this involved the de-recognition of over 86 per cent of the value of Indian currency in circulation with only four hours' notice.

This important book provides a quick and concise explanation of the goals, implications, initial effects and the political economy of this major demonetisation move by the Government of...

-True stories that will sear you to the depth of your soul; decision making lessons that will stay with you for the rest of your life.- That's how one person described this book.

When Your Life Depends on It is designed to be a thrilling read.

It is an adventure book that looks at the challenging situations faced by early explorers like Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen and Mawson while they were attempting to conquer the great, icy, then-unknown, Antarctic world.

But this book was written to be much more than that. By looking at the...

Big data are changing the way we work as companies face an increasing amount of data. Rather than replacing a human workforce or making decisions obsolete, big data are going to pose an immense innovating force to those employees capable of utilizing them. This book intends to first convey a theoretical understanding of big data. It then tackles the phenomenon of big data from the perspectives of varied organizational theories in order to highlight socio-technological interaction. Big data are bound to transform organizations which calls for a transformation of the human resource...

With insight and verve, Griffin argues that...

People with minimal math skills, and even those with advanced math skills, have difficulty grasping the intuitive concepts behind Statistical Process Control (SPC). Many practitioners do not understand the concepts behind Control Charts, the differences of out of control and out of specification, and the process variation on Control Charts. This book will explain these concepts by using a simple methodology that will bring a much greater level of understanding to those that use it by providing a detailed description of the method, using common language, real-world examples to illustrate...

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• Part-by-part summaries
• Detailed timeline of key events
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• Fascinating trivia
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Discover how to thrive in our unpredictable world, reengaging with your passions and improving leadership skills by stretching your mindset, embracing change, and welcoming new opportunities.

We all admire daring innovators. In our own lives, however, it often seems safer to stick with the status quo.

Change can be frightening, but embracing it can lead to phenomenal growth. Stretch for Change offers you a new framework to guide you in creating a flexible mindset that is more open to new ideas.

Change is unavoidable, and for most of us, it's hard to deal with....