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What is the best way for a company to innovate? That's exactly the wrong question. The better question: How can organizations get the maximum possible value from their innovation investments? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. But this audiobook addresses the innovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits. They want fast, frugal, and high-impact innovations.

Someday, somebody somewhere is going to try to scam you. It could be someone online. It could be a person in your workplace. It could be a friend. It could be your partner. There are a myriad of ways in which people will try to get you to buy the lies. In the second book in the Why Smart Women series, we rejoin Kat who’s in a relationship with a lovely, decent man, she’s enjoying her well-paid job and she has adopted a large groodle. Things are looking up!

From celebrated business school professor and author of Edge, a research-backed framework for honing and harnessing your intuition to make the right decisions and attain greater levels of achievement. What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is hard work...

A currency trader receives a million-dollar algorithm as a “mental download”. A financial advisor has ominous dreams three nights in a row and then warns her clients to cash out. Three days later, markets plummet as COVID-19 hits. Two years into a bogus lawsuit, a CEO chooses to forgive. His attorney calls four minutes later - case settled. These ideas did not come from within these people, but from a power outside themselves - the Muse.

Good problem-solving skills are not something you're born with.... They’re something you can master. If your struggle is not coming up with solutions, but coming up with the best solution, look no further.

Um Cisne Negro é um evento que reúne três características principais: é altamente improvável, produz um enorme impacto e, depois que acontece, inventamos uma explicação que o faça parecer menos aleatório e mais previsível do que de fato é. Para Nassim Nicholas Taleb, esse fenômeno está na base de quase tudo que acontece no mundo — da ascensão das religiões aos acontecimentos em nossas próprias vidas. O incrível êxito do Google, por exemplo, foi um Cisne Negro, assim como o Onze de Setembro.

Disrupted: Strategy for Exponential Change details a practical approach for being disruption ready, the fundamentals of a 21st Century strategic framework - Strategy in Action (SiA), and examples of organizations leveraging disruption. Disrupted is the distillation of the wisdom of Resilient Futures' 25-plus years of researching and applying SiA in the USA and Australia.

Dive into a masterclass with world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell as he shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century. What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own...

Unlock the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform your business. AI for Entrepreneurs is a comprehensive guide designed to help small business owners and startups harness AI to innovate, streamline operations, and gain a competitive edge in today’s marketplace.

ORGANIZATIONS must accelerate strategic results to thrive, and they need you in the driver’s seat. How do you achieve this, even when firefighting is the norm? With three decades helping organizations deliver change, 2021 World PMO Influencer Laura Barnard unveils the system she uses with clients and students to evolve stagnant project and transformation teams into nimble, business-driven delivery engines.

We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.

What if success didn’t come from trying harder—but from building systems that work even on your worst days? Success Habits That Stick isn’t your typical self-help audiobook filled with motivation that fades fast. Instead, it’s a practical, step-by-step guide to mastering your daily routines, creating effortless discipline, and designing a life filled with purpose, productivity, and lasting wealth. In this audiobook, you’ll discover how to make success feel automatic—by aligning your habits with your personal vision, energy levels, and environment.

This isn’t another generic self help or self improvement book. Critical Thinking for Go-Getters gives you the decision making frameworks and problem solving strategies for leaders who rise to challenges and take control. You’ll learn how to think sharper, act faster, and make confident choices you can trust.

Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a six-step process for creating ideas and bringing them to life. The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalize this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools by your side.  

Millions of subject-matter experts, functional leaders, requirements gatherers, and problem solvers have opportunities to influence every day. Instead, too often they merely respond to requests and take orders from their stakeholders. By not exercising their unknown superpower, they miss opportunities to break down silos, improve collaboration, and accelerate the best decisions for the organization. This book is designed to help people discover the most impactful approach to influencing without authority, coercion, manipulation or force.

In Curable journalist and health care advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question: What if the roots of the current US health care crisis are psychological and systemic, perpetuated not just by corporate influence and the powers that be, but by you and me? Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.

From Gary Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author and head of CES and the Consumer Technology Association, a manifesto for today’s top executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders: pivot or die. As CEO of the Consumer Technology Association , owner and producer of CES , Gary Shapiro has had a...

Snowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman has penned The Amp It Up Fieldbook to help leaders grow any organization by challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where they count, and being uncompromisingly objective.

El programa de gestión empresarial de 12 semanas avalado por más de 100.000 profesionales de compañías destacadas de la lista Fortune Global 500. MBA en 12 semanas ofrece consejos prácticos para dirigir y liderar con éxito en los negocios de hoy. Conseguir un MBA requiere tiempo y dinero, lo que lo hace inaccesible para muchas personas que desean asumir responsabilidades en el mundo empresarial. MBA en 12 semanas ofrece una manera alternativa de aprender las habilidades y los conocimientos esenciales para triunfar en la gestión y la dirección de empresas.

In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN baseball writer and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has...