Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years....

From the creator of Valuetainment, the number-one YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals....

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.

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup....

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

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....

Discover the practical, fail-proof tools that will help you to fine-tune your leadership skills, solidify respect among your workforce, and ensure your company's lasting success....

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand....

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....

With straight talk and practical solutions, Jared Tendler brings a new voice to trading psychology. In The Mental Game of Trading, he busts myths about emotions, greed, and discipline, and shows you how to look past the obvious to identify the real reasons you're struggling....

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

Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this audiobook helps you analyze key decisions you've made in the past and troubleshoot those you're making in the future....

Beyond OODA: Developing the Orientation for Deception, Conflict and Violence is Varg Freeborn's highly anticipated follow up to the extremely popular Violence of Mind....

In this book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free....

So often, books about learning to be more persuasive assume that everyone wants to dominate and control their worlds. They assume, so much of the time, that people are cynical, cruel, and just looking for power so that they can start stepping on people....

In Joel's Schwartzberg's 10-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across is that most speakers and writers don't have a point....

Create the Future is an exciting guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos....

This is a book about common sense—what it is, how to make it, and how to put it into practice across all contexts of leadership and life. It's also a book of stories from my leadership journey across continents, cultures, and contexts (e.g., combat, business, and government)....

Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world.

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading Data Domain and ServiceNow to exponential growth and the public market before that....

Performing Under Pressure tackles the greatest obstacle to personal success, whether in a sales presentation....

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....

A paradigm-shifting manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, and to even five hundred years from now to reclaim meaning in our lives....

Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change—with a radical approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence....

In Become Time Rich: How to Stop Being Busy and Start Getting Wealthy, celebrated financial educator and business coach Lloyd Ross delivers an exciting, practical, and insightful new take on how to effectively manage your time to help you reach exceptional financial and lifestyle outcomes. The book teaches you how to achieve more by doing less and spending the time you save on things you love that also enrich your life.

変化を見抜くことが難しい時代だからこそ、未来を的確に予測し、先回りできたものが生き残る。未来予測のための技法を大公開。

Algorithms, machine learning, generative AI. With the latest advancements in technology, data is taking center stage in organizations. But without a clear plan for how you're storing, integrating, and gaining value from that information, your company will be at risk—and fall behind. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on setting a data strategy in your organization, listen to these ten articles.

「ライバル会社にいつも後れを取っている」「新しい視点で事業展開ができていない」「そもそも戦略の立て方が分からない」・・・

イシュー思考は、目的を少ない時間と手間で超速で達成する、いわば、〝超特急〞のような思考法ですので、ビジネスパーソンはもちろん、研究者や学生も含め、多くの方々が使えるようになってほしいものです。

Since the start of this century, businesses have confronted a series of extreme and constant disruptions, including technological upheavals, a pandemic, and a global financial crisis. As a result, today’s leaders, from startup founders to the managers of global giants, face unprecedented pressures from their bosses, investors, customers, peers, suppliers, and employees. For many, it’s a recipe for disaster. Part of the problem is that these challenges, while acutely felt, are rarely articulated in a way that makes them graspable and actionable.

Authored by renowned leadership, Agile, and project management trainer and coach Phill Akinwale, PMP, this book serves as a seminal guide to mastering the DIGCIV model—a comprehensive framework for decision-making in the modern digital landscape. DIGCIV: A Model for Problem Solving, Critical Thinking & Creativity is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to refine their decision-making processes in a world dominated by information overload.

The capacity to find, grasp, and methodically and successfully address issues is called problem-solving. It is a cognitive and behavioral process that permits humans to go from an unpleasant circumstance to a desired one.

In The Highflier Handbook, renowned executive coach and advisor, Allen N. Weiner, guides listeners through the essential qualities and behaviors that distinguish outstanding performers in the workplace. The book addresses the common challenge of being overlooked for leadership roles despite competence and hard work.

Whether you're aiming to enhance your career, lead more effectively, or simply live with greater purpose, The Science of Being Great empowers you to think bigger, act decisively, and build the life you genuinely desire.

Most people overthink, overanalyze, and end up stuck in a spiral of stress, anxiety, and missed opportunities. But what if the real winners in life are the ones who left curve—the ones who keep things simple, act decisively, and don’t drown in endless details? The Power of Left Curve flips the classic bell curve meme into a life-changing strategy, showing you how to sidestep “mid-curve paralysis,” cut stress in half, and make smarter choices (backed by real science and wild real-life stories).

During the early stages of coronavirus, Amy Moudy Comeau, MBA, an award-winning and acclaimed marketing executive, began writing weekly emails to her Emory Healthcare marketing team every Friday, as a form of encouragement and support to get them through eight weeks of shelter-in-place, which turned into a three-year pandemic.

In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”

You want to pursue meaningful work and succeed professionally, and you know that personal pursuits matter and fuel your happiness, too. But in today's world, the pressure to do it all can leave you stretched thin and questioning everything—your direction, your choices, and even your ambitions themselves. Time-management techniques and productivity hacks aren’t enough. The endless search for balance feels like chasing a mirage.

Busy professionals can now master AI-driven optimization while commuting, working, or multitasking.