Decision-Making & Problem Solving
mobi |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Thaler, Sunstein [Thaler, Sunstein]

Document Outline CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: HUMANS AND ECONS 1 Biases and Blunders 2 Resisting Temptation 3 Following the Herd 4 When Do We Need a Nudge? 5 Choice ...
( Category: General March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eyal Winter [Winter, Eyal]

Cliché 1: Men are far more likely than women to agree to brief one-time sexual encounters without emotional commitments. The facts: A man can theoretically father a thousand times as ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving January 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jim Collins & Dan Brickman & Quickie Book Summary [Collins, Jim & Brickman, Dan & Summary, Quickie Book]

TECHNOLOGY AND THE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT Now, you might be thinking: “But the Internet frenzy is just a speculative bubble that burst. So what? Everybody knew that the bubble was unsustainable, ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Kara Penn Anjali Sastry [Sastry, Kara Penn Anjali]

Assemble a Project Archive The first step is to build an archive of the materials your team created. You need not prepare an exhaustive collection of everything or implement a ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 18,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Kerry Patterson & Joseph Grenny & Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

Watch for Three “Clever” Stories As we begin to piece together why people are doing what they’re doing (or equally important, why we’re doing what we’re doing), with time and ...
( Category: Communications November 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Harnish, Verne & Collins, Jim & Editors of Fortune Magazine [Harnish, Verne]

* * * TOYOTA PURSUES ZERO DEFECTS * * * By Alex Taylor III * * * When Toyota made the decision to put quality first, the move wasn’t as ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Duncan J. Watts [Watts, Duncan J.]

FUTURE SHOCK No matter how carefully you adhere to this advice, a serious limitation with all prediction methods is that they are only reliable to the extent that the same ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Shapiro, Ronald M. & Barker, Jeff [Shapiro, Ronald M.]

Robin, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your influence in the office, and trust me I completely understand your frustration and appreciate what you are going through. Hopefully ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Joseph Grenny

ACT LIKE AN INFLUENCER At one of Danny Meyer’s restaurants, a server was asked by a customer if he knew where he could buy a good cigar along Madison Avenue. ...
( Category: Leadership November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Michael J. Mauboussin

Source: Analysis by author. The message that correlation does not equal causality is also relevant. A theory is an explanation of cause and effect, and statistics is a means to ...
( Category: Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Piyanka Jain [Jain, Piyanka]

Logic Tier Now let’s move to what happens in the back-end. Whenever John interacts with the system, the front-end interacts with the transactional system through an intermediate logic tier and ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Megan McArdle [McArdle, Megan]

This fall 4,852 freshmen are expected to enroll at UCLA, but only 96, or 2 percent, are African American—the lowest figure in decades and a growing concern at the Westwood ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Tal Ben-Shahar

49. BE DRIVEN BY GUILT AND DUTY — or — Pursue your passion Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. —Joseph Campbell When I adhere ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | | Author:Christensen, Clayton M.

S. S. Kresge, zu diesem Zeitpunkt der zweitgrößte Variety Store der Welt, begann sich im Jahre 1957 mit dem Konzept des Diskonthandels auseinanderzusetzen. Zu dieser Zeit war der Diskonthandel noch ...
( Category: Management November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Nathan Furr & Jeff Dyer [Furr, Nathan]

* * * How to Run a Good Experiment Most people believe they understand experimenting, but when we teach executives and students, 90 percent of the time they get it ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving October 27,2014 )