Showing titles in Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Libérate de pensar demasiado y recupera el control de tu mente. ¿Te descubres repasando conversaciones, dudando de tus decisiones o preocupándote por cosas que aún no han sucedido? En este audiolibro, Harrison Walton comparte métodos prácticos y científicos para calmar el caos mental y liberarte del pensamiento obsesivo. A través de herramientas de la Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) y el mindfulness, aprenderás a detener la rumiación, manejar la ansiedad y enfocar tu mente con propósito.

Imagine you’ve just come back to work after a two-week vacation during which you actually relaxed, without calling in or checking e-mail. You discover that there are no pressing issues and that, on the contrary, your team scored a big new customer and fixed a nagging problem during your absence. No red flags or fires to put out. Sadly, for most leaders this scenario is only a dream. They constantly check on what’s happen­ing because they expect the worst (and usually get it).

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.

This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed. Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making—a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency but our very freedom.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on decision making, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

What a consultant learns and accumulates over years is harder to transfer than a framework or a methodology. The consulting firms have produced extraordinary tools, issue trees, hypothesis-first thinking, the Pyramid Principle, the 7-S Framework, Five Forces analysis. These are taught in business schools. They are written about in case studies. They are documented in libraries of business literature. But the actual wisdom, the stuff that gathers only through repetition, failure, honest feedback, and the specific discomfort of being accountable for advice given to real organizations with ...

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 ...

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict...

What if you could borrow the brain of a billionaire for every major decision you make? Here's an uncomfortable truth: You're probably making decisions the same way you did ten years ago. The same mental shortcuts. The same blind spots. The same predictable mistakes. Meanwhile, Charlie Munger spent six decades building a thinking system so powerful that Warren Buffett calls him "the best 30-second mind in the world." The difference between you and Munger isn't intelligence, access, or experience. It's mental models — a latticework of big ideas drawn from psychology, physics, biology, ...

There comes a moment in leadership when the discussion ends—but the responsibility does not. When the Decision Is Yours is for leaders who have already earned authority and discovered that clarity does not always come with it. This book explores what leadership actually feels like after consensus fades—when there is no safe answer left, no perfect option to wait for, and someone must decide. This is not a how-to book. It offers no frameworks, formulas, or quick solutions. Instead, it names the quiet realities experienced leaders recognize but rarely articulate: • Waiting when waiting ...

Master creative thinking in the AI age with practical tools that blend imagination and discipline for better innovation in this updated, award-winning business bestseller. Now updated with twenty percent new content, this Porchlight Business Book of the Year returns with all-new case studies and...

I’ve tried to write the book I wished someone had handed me twenty years ago, when I was making my own share of terrible decisions and couldn’t understand why someone supposedly smart kept getting it wrong. The answer, I eventually discovered, is that smartness is a starting point, not a destination. The destination is wisdom, and the road between the two is paved with humility, practice, and the willingness to look honestly at how your own mind works. Intelligence is a tool. Judgment is the hand that wields it. And the gap between the two, what I call the ‘Judgment Gap’, is ...

From the author of Just Keep Buying, a groundbreaking new framework for building wealth Do you feel stuck financially? Are you working more, trying to spend less, yet still not seeing results? If so, the issue isn’t your effort—it’s your approach. This is where The Wealth Ladder comes in...

Success boils down to one thing: making good decisions. That’s easy to say, but what do we do when we are faced with terrible options, deep anxiety, and fear of failure? Learning the right framework now can make all the difference later. Turn to Decide and Conquer to access the decision...

This book will inspire you to: control the negotiation before you enter the room; persuade others to do what you want - for their own reasons; manage emotions on both sides of the table; understand the rules of negotiating across cultures; set the stage for a healthy relationship long after the ink has dried; and identify what you can live with and when to walk away.

The groundbreaking bestseller from iconic behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, now the inspiration for the Fall 2023 NBC show The Irrational “A marvelous book that is both thought provoking and highly entertaining, ranging from the power of placebos to the pleasures of Pepsi. Ariely unmasks the...

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 studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...

Complex problem solving is at the very top of the list of essential skills for career progression in the modern world. But how problem solving is taught in our schools, universities, businesses, and organizations comes up short. In Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, you'll learn the seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving developed in top consulting firms that will work in any field or industry, turning you into a highly sought-after, bulletproof problem solver who can tackle challenges at which others balk.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented...

El elemento crucial que separa una carrera brillante de una promedio es la habilidad para idear soluciones innovadoras a los retos laborales. Algunas investigaciones muestran que la relación directa entre las ideas y la rentabilidad, habilidades de pensamiento creativo son vitales para un...