Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory, making the boldest of visions seem attainable; even though he sometimes failed audaciously, he embraced his errors and used them to become stronger. Axelrod looks at this much-studied...
Decision making
- Author:Axelrod, AlanSummary:
- Author:Kelsey, ElinSummary:
Text and illustrations explore how animals big and small show a capacity for innovation, and encourages readers to seek inspiration from the world around them.
- Author:Marquet, L. DavidSummary:
Imagine a workplace where everyone is totally engaged and contributing their full intellectual capacity, where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work. That's what David Marquet achieved as...
- Author:Finkelstein, SydneySummary:
The authors illustrate why even good leaders can make terrible decisions--and more importantly, how this situation can be avoided.
- Author:Flanders, CaitSummary:
In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old...
- Author:Mazzetti, MarkSummary:
Presents a revelatory account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert paramilitary agencies responsible for the defeat of Osama bin Laden and other strategic war efforts, offering insight...
- Author:Wirestone, MaxSummary:
Meet Dahlia Moss. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own, she's offered a job that will lead her to a...
- Author:Lewis, MichaelSummary:
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original...
- Author:Mauboussin, Michael J.Summary:
Mauboussin offers invaluable guidance on recognizing how these two forces influence our achievements and how to interpret these circumstances for optimal future results.
- Author:Swayne, CharleySummary:
Use poker strategy to become a better decision maker
In high–stakes poker, you need patience and aggression — qualities that translate to the world of business. In The Shark and the Fish, Charley Swayne...
- The little book of market myths how to profit by avoiding the investing mistakes everyone else makesAuthor:Fisher, Kenneth L.Summary:
Debunks commonly held investing myths and misconceptions, explaining why each belief or strategy is wrong and how damaging it can be to financial health.
- Author:Wangersky, RussellSummary:
Russell Wangersky's characters, caught in a variety of human circumstances, make some outstandingly bad decisions in this first short fiction collection by a prominent Canadian journalist.
This first short fiction collection by a...
- Author:Levenson, AlecSummary:
More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations—and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist and...
- Author:Kennedy, Debbe, Barker, Joel A.Summary:
Putting our differences to work means creating an environment where people, naturally unique and different—diverse by nature and experience—can work more effectively in ways that drive new levels of creativity, innovation, problem...
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- Author:Kuipers, AliceSummary:
In a canoe trip gone terribly wrong, the little girl that 17-year-old Lark babysits and the boy Lark is dating fall into the lake at the same moment. They are both drowning, and Lark can only save one of them in time. In this critical...
- Author:McCain, JohnSummary:
McCain pays tribute to men and women who were important examples of composure, wisdom, and intellect in the face of tough decisions, in a volume that cites the examples of such figures as Henry Ford, Branch Rickey, and Ellen Johnson-...
- Author:Cottone, R. RoccoSummary:
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- Author:Dittmer, Robert E., McFarland, StephanieSummary:
Research and experience demonstrate two areas with which many new managers are completely unfamiliar: delegating tasks and work, and making decisions. Some struggle with this for years. But it doesn’t have to be hard. 151 Quick Ideas...