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

It's very likely that best practices--ideas, processes, and strategies that are commonplace in your industry--are actually hurting your business.

Although best practices can help businesses operate more competitively and efficiently, they are often outdated, harmful, and a hindrance to innovation.

The problem is, managers and executives are usually blind to the negative effects of best practices, so they don't question their purpose or measure their effectiveness. As a consequence, outdated or harmful practices spread and persist without their knowledge.

In Breaking...

Yet with the graduatisation of the workforce, comes growing concerns about, as well as misunderstanding, of what jobs...

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the...

From The Jungle To The Boardroom is a memoir of author Mike Monahan's experiences in the Vietnam War as a scout dog handler and lessons learned and applied while leading Life Success Seminars, a Cincinnati based nonprofit. The author explores three main questions: Am I Prepared? - Am I Safe? - Am I Alone? He further explains how these three questions apply and have an impact on decisions made in everyday leadership in business and at home. This book handles a difficult period in our history with honor, humor and resolution. This is a must read if you are a leader and want to continue to...

Mohan and Oliver have been very fortunate to have intimate views into the data challenges that face the largest organizations and institutions across every possible industry--and what they have been hearing about for some time is how the business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage. They continually hear the same issues, such as:

• We're spending valuable meeting time wondering why everyone's data doesn't match up.
• We can't leverage our economies of scale while remaining agile with data.
• We need self-serve apps that let the enterprise experiment...

This is partly down to the speed of change and also down to the mindset about change that is common amongst large and small companies. To them, change is seen as the enemy. This book proposes a role reversal and gives people a brand new methodology as a practical guide in how to use...