Decision-Making & Problem Solving

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The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem is, most leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, struggling to find the time to make better strategic decisions. This challenge is only heightened by the rise of AI.

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually...

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast...

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and...

A USA Today Bestseller From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and...

Work is changing for everyone, everywhere. Standing still isn't an option. Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, CEO and Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, show you how to take control of this moment with clarity and confidence. The future of work is not a distant horizon. It is being...

The New York Times bestseller From the long-tenured head of Goldman Sachs, an institution legendary for its culture of success, comes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence. "Funny, mainly blunt, unexpectedly vulnerable and rarely apologetic.” —Bloomberg “No...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in “the ultimate guide to thinking about risk” (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). “A big favorite among...

An Avid Reader Press book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in...

Includes bonus audio featuring an exclusive conversation with Naval Ravikant. Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and...

THE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD “Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more?”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in...

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of...

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere....

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both...

Features a bonus conversation with bestselling poet and philosopher Yung Pueblo. New York Times Bestseller! From the author of the international bestseller Don't Believe Everything You Think comes a companion guide that transforms the paralyzing cycle of overthinking into clear, intuitive...

In this book you'll find all the tools, strategies, and techniques you need to improve your memory....

Choose Hard, Live Easy strips away the syrupy delusions of modern self-help to reveal the raw mechanics of how you can engineer the amazing life you've always wanted.

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how...

Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk....

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusion of Morgan Housel’s fascinating, useful, and highly-entertaining book.” — Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times...

Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader reveals the timeless ideas and proven strategies that turned Koch Industries into a global powerhouse—offering a practical blueprint for anyone who wants to create lasting value through principled leadership.

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and...

Work is changing for everyone, everywhere. Standing still isn't an option. Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, CEO and Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, show you how to take control of this moment with clarity and confidence. The future of work is not a distant horizon. It is being...

Do you have a nagging fear that your work isn’t truly important? Or that your potential greatness will wither, unrealized? Most people never feel purpose in their work. They never bring their full energy to a meaningful mission. Purpose and intensity are Elon Musk’s superpowers. He chooses...

A USA Today Bestseller From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and...

Innovation doesn't just happen. You need to lead it. Discover the three critical roles leaders must play in driving—and scaling—innovation. Constant tech disruption. Unrelenting economic volatility. Radically shifting demographics and work norms. More than ever, we need to innovate amid...

In How to Win at the Sport of Business, Mark Cuban collects his greatest lessons on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. Drawing upon his profound insider knowledge, Cuban offers unconventional business tips and tells his stunning rags-to-riches tale from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends' couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion-dollar success story. Mark shows how he puts his own advice into practice and how entrepreneurs at any stage of their careers can outmaneuver their competitors.

Tu cerebro está hecho para sobrepensar al momento de tomar decisiones, no porque haya algo mal contigo, sino porque te importa elegir la opción correcta. Si alguna vez te has sentido perdido ante la toma de una decisión, atrapado en un espiral infinito de “¿y si...?”, incapaz de dejar de analizar cada opción hasta el cansancio, a pesar de los consejos que todo el mundo te ofrece… este libro es la ruta de escape.

Aux yeux de Mark Douglas, la clé de la réussite réside dans l'optimisation de l'état d'esprit du trader et non pas dans une analyse exhaustive du marché ou dans le tout dernier « système » à la mode. Dans Traders : entrez dans la zone, Mark Douglas apprend au trader à penser en termes de probabilités et à adopter les certitudes fondamentales nécessaires pour acquérir une « mentalité de gagnant ». Les traders qui sont dans « la zone » n'ont pas besoin de savoir - et ils s'en moquent - ce que le marché va faire par la suite. Eux savent ce qu'ils vont faire.

What if building a high-performing team didn’t start with HR—but with you? In today’s business world, teams win, and solo heroes burn out. Whether you’re scaling a startup or leading a growing company, your team is your most important investment—and your greatest risk.

Being a leader is not easy for anyone. Thankfully, this book transforms more than a half-century of leadership experiences into a practical handbook for those looking to excel in leadership roles. In candid fashion, "So, You Want to Be a Leader: Secrets of a Lifetime of Success," reveals what works—along with an unvarnished examination of what doesn't—in a myriad of work-related situations. The author's stories help the listener avoid the pitfalls of poor leadership by providing personal examples of what leads to success.

Clarity doesn’t require certainty—just intention. Life’s most important decisions rarely come with clear answers. Whether you’re navigating career changes, health challenges, difficult relationships, or shifting priorities, the weight of uncertainty can feel overwhelming—and the fear of making the “wrong” choice can leave you stuck.

Probably the most powerful thing you could learn is a new relationship with your own mind? Most of us move through our days on autopilot — reacting rather than choosing, assuming rather than questioning, repeating the same patterns and wondering why nothing changes. We invest in knowledge, techniques, tools. But we rarely stop to examine the instrument doing all the thinking. That instrument is you. And it is far less reliable — and far more improvable — than you have ever been taught. This is the premise at the heart of Cultivating Metacognition: A Primer, and it changes everything. ...

When ancient Greeks rolled a giant wooden horse into Troy, the Trojans welcomed it as a gift. They had no idea that soldiers waited inside, ready to open the gates and destroy the city. Business leaders fall into a similar trap. They accept surface-level "solutions" to deeper problems, only to discover too late that the real enemy was within. In Trojan Horse: The Unseen Solution to Critical Business Problems, veteran entrepreneur and turnaround specialist Dean Svarc pulls back the curtain on unseen forces that sink companies from the inside out.

Most training works in theory. But fails when it matters. People complete the course. They understand the content. They even say it was useful. And then nothing changes. The same mistakes happen. The same issues return. The same question gets asked: “Didn’t we already train this?” This book solves that problem. Not by improving content. By changing how training is designed. Instead of focusing on what people need to know, this book shows you how to design for what people need to do—especially when: the situation is unclear time is limited pressure is high and there is no time to ...

We are in a transition where the old order is losing authority and the new order hasn’t earned legitimacy yet. In the middle, the “monsters” multiply. Not fantasies, but symptoms leaders recognise immediately: volatility, cynicism, scapegoating, performative certainty, and the quiet diffusion of accountability. A Brief Book About Crossing the Abyss is a concise, boardroom-ready guide for leaders and senior teams navigating the AI transition without turning technology into the strategy. It’s not another productivity playbook. It’s a leadership book about staying coherent when ...

Why do so many organizations struggle with leadership? It's not because employees lack intelligence or motivation. It's because the system is broken. Leaders are often chosen for the wrong reasons: they've been around the longest, they excelled as individual contributors, or someone simply had to fill the role. Rarely are they promoted because they were intentionally developed, taught to think critically, or given the chance to practice ownership before stepping into authority.

Synopsis In intelligent markets, intuition is no longer enough. This book shows how successful entrepreneurship now depends on the integration of data analytics, strategic decision-making under uncertainty, and human resilience. Blending entrepreneurial practice with computational market analysis, this book offers a modern framework for understanding how product and capital markets behave in fast-moving, high-growth environments. Written for founders, executives, and innovation leaders, the book demonstrates how data-driven methods can be used to anticipate market shifts, evaluate ...

This book aims to discuss and answer “Why the Next Great Brands Will Be Built Like Living Systems, Not Like Monuments?” This book is an argument. The argument is that the fundamental metaphor most brand builders carry in their minds, the metaphor of the brand as a building, a structure, a fixed thing, is wrong. And that the wrongness of the metaphor is producing the wrongness of the strategy. When you believe you are building a structure, you hire architects and engineers. When you understand you are growing a living system, you hire gardeners and doctors. The skills are different. The ...

Our lives are full of challenges, and too often we struggle to find the answers. Meaning and purpose get lost in the light speed of everyday life, and we often seek guidance from the wrong people. The truth is, we cannot avoid the impact of leadership in our lives, and it is up to us to seek out and become better leaders. Noble Leadership is a movement designed to help us identify our inherent leadership capabilities, find purpose, seek awareness, strive for growth, and promote the well-being of all people.

THE ONE-PAGE STRATEGY METHOD™ Align Effort With Leverage Most people don’t fail because they lack discipline. They fail because they are executing the wrong things. You can stay busy. You can stay consistent. You can even get results. But if your direction is wrong, none of it matters. The One-Page Strategy Method™ is a 30-day decision system designed to help you eliminate low-value work, focus on what truly moves the needle, and align your effort with outcomes that create real progress. This is not a productivity book. It is a strategy filter. Inside, you will learn how to: • ...

“The New Fire - Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, a Transformed World” presents an analysis that is impatient with confident predictions, deeply respectful of the difficulty of deploying technology at commercial scale, and well-developed skepticism toward both optimistic and pessimistic narratives that substitute emotional resonance for thoughtful evidence-based discipline. A transformative technology is arriving as the post-Cold War international order fragments, supply chains underpinning technological development are geopolitical, capital market valuations assume outcomes that ...

This bite sized book is part of a series and is a concise guide to offer simple and straightforward tips and advice to help you to distill complexity and apply intelligent thinking through information overload and fake news.

This book is about the kinds of thinking that the future will reward. Not techniques. Not productivity hacks. Not a morning routine that promises to make you ten percent more efficient at doing what you already do. It is about the deeper cognitive shifts, the changes in how you perceive, reason, decide, and adapt, that separate the people who navigate radical uncertainty with grace from the people who are perpetually blindsided by it. Some of these shifts are uncomfortable. They ask you to abandon the satisfying clarity of single-factor explanations. They ask you to hold multiple ...

Time is not a scheduling problem. It is a leadership problem. Most leaders don't need more tools. They need clarity. In a noisy world where the calendar fills itself and the inbox grows faster than the mission, the leader who can protect attention and shape time has a lasting advantage. How to Win Time is not a productivity manual. It is a clarity manual for founders, executives, and builders who carry responsibility and want calm execution instead of endless motion.

There is a cruel peculiarity to the way humans learn the most important lessons. In almost every domain, instruction precedes examination. But in the domain that matters most — the actual conduct of a life — the sequence is reversed. The test comes first. The lesson, if it comes at all, arrives afterward. We cross the threshold before we know it's a threshold. The pivotal conversation. The decision that redirected everything. The moment we stepped into — or away from — the life that was possible. In hindsight, these moments seem obvious, even inevitable. At the time, they felt like ...

SYSTEM WARNING: Your expertise is a hallucination. It is time to format the drive. You are lagging. The exhaustion you feel in the boardroom, the courtroom, and the quiet spaces of your own life is not an emotion. Do not romanticize it as "imposter syndrome." It is system latency. You are a biological processor burning massive amounts of metabolic energy to project a holographic shield of competence in a universe governed by infinite, chaotic variables. Society installed this malware early. It is called the Tyranny of Knowing. It forces your wetware to constantly stitch together garbage ...