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The must-read summary of Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell's book: "Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it from Happening to You".
This complete summary of the ideas from Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell's book "Think Again" shows that even smart and highly experienced leaders can sometimes make appallingly bad decisions which have catastrophic consequences for their organisations....
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The must-read summary of Joel Kurtzman, Glenn Rifkin and Victoria Griffith's book: "MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business".
This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Kurtzman, Glenn Rifkin and Victoria Griffith's book "MBA in a Box" shows that, at one level, business isn't as difficult to master as the business schools and other sellers of educational courses would have you believe. To be successful in business, you don't...
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The must-read summary of Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's book: "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's book "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense" shows how managing a business profitably is hard work, with intense pressures, incomplete information and new ideas that come along every day. Under...
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The must-read summary of Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book: "Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change".
This complete summary of the ideas from Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony and Erik Roth's book "Seeing What's Next" shows that successful businessmen, investors and entrepreneurs all share one trait: they have the ability to predict industry change and either exploit the resulting opportunities...
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The must-read summary of Ram Charan's book: "Know-How: The 8 Skills that Separate People who Perform from Those Who Don't".
This complete summary of the ideas from Ram Charan's book "Know-How" shows how the concept of "know-how" is defined as what separates leaders who deliver results from those who don't. This is especially important in today's market, where the current magnitude, speed, and depth are unlike what most people have experienced in...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Hugh Courtney's book "2020 Foresight" helps the reader to distinguish between the information that can be known about a company's future, and what cannot. When planning a company's future, one must be able to account for a certain degree of uncertainty. By doing so, one can make more sensible and cautious decisions, and be more prepared for eventual changes in the market. This summary presents a four-step problem...
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This complete summary of the ideas from "The McKinsey Mind" explores the reasons behind the tremendous success of the eponymous strategic consulting firm, and presents the structured problem-solving process each McKinsey consultant uses in order to develop (and often help implement) solutions to their client's strategic problems. In this useful summary, you will learn how to use the McKinsey problem-solving methodology, so as to improve your decision-making...
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The must-read summary of Richard Rumelt's book: "Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters".
This complete summary of the ideas from "Good Strategy Bad Strategy" explains what strategy is and exposes the three elements of a good strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions, thus effectively providing you with the tools necessary to identify, devise and implement a good strategy.
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The must-read summary of Paul Nutt's book: "Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles".
This complete summary of the ideas from Paul Nutt's book "Why Decisions Fail" shows that in order to make better decisions and avoid the debacles, you need to avoid the three blunders and seven traps that can lead to bad decisions. In his book, the author details each of these traps and blunders and how you can learn to spot and...
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The must-read summary of Sergio Zyman's book: "Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not Be the Right Thing".
This complete summary of the ideas from Sergio Zyman's book "Renovate Before You Innovate" shows that instead of "exploring new possibilities" and getting into new lines of business they know little about, companies should be focusing on doing more of what made them successful in the first place. In his book, the author...
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The must-read summary of Kenneth McGee's book: "Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First".
This complete summary of the ideas from Kenneth McGee's book "Heads Up" shows how there is no such thing as a genuine "surprise" in business - every potential disaster-in-the-making has some advance warnings. In his book, the author explains that the key to picking up these signs is to use real-time data to your advantage,...
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The must-read summary of Peter F. Drucker's book: "Management Challenges for the 21st Century: The Central Management Issues of Tomorrow".
This complete summary of the ideas from Peter F. Drucker's book "Management Challenges for the 21st Century" shows how, in the last few years, the world has undergone massive social, economic and demographic change. Nowadays, executives must learn to react differently — the policies, procedures and intellectual...
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This complete summary of "The Irrational Economist" presents a multi-faceted examination of the developments in decision-making over the last few decades. The book looks at irrational behaviours, crisis management and the influence of individual behaviour on collective decisions.
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• Understand decision-making in an uncertain and dangerous context
• Expand your knowledge of politics, economics and psychology
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The must-read summary of Steve Gottry's book: "Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating and Growing Your Small Business – In Any Economy!".
This complete summary of the ideas from Steve Gottry's book "Common Sense Business" shows that you always learn far more from your failures in running a small business than you ever learn from your successes. According to Helen Keller, "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience...
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The must-read summary of David Goldsmith and Lorrie Goldsmith's book: "Paid to Think: A Leader's Toolkit for Redefining Your Future".
This complete summary of the ideas from David Goldsmith and Lorrie Goldsmith's book "Paid to Think" shows how managers are paid to think about the twelve core activities where they add value as a leader. In their book, the authors highlight and explain these twelve activities in detail, and why you should be focusing...
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The must-read summary of Elton B. Sherwin, Jr.'s book: "The Silicon Valley Way: Discover the Secret of America's Fastest Growing Companies".
This complete summary of the ideas from Elton B. Sherwin, Jr.'s book "The Silicon Valley Way" describes how the experienced and successful Silicon Valley decision makers have developed a set of questions in order to evaluate the viability of new business concepts. In his book, the author presents 44 questions...
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The must-read summary of Scott Belsky's book: "Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality".
This complete summary of the ideas from Scott Belsky's book "Making Ideas Happen" shows that while raw ideas are easy to come by, it's much harder to translate them into action. Many people view the success of ideas as luck, or a reflection on the idea itself, but more often than not it's the implementation process that makes...
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The must-read summary of Stan Davis and Bill Davidson's book: "2020 Vision: Transform Your Business Today to Succeed in Tomorrow's Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Stan Davis and Bill Davidson's book "2020 Vision" shows that companies are under pressure to constantly update themselves and their products to keep up with adjustments in technology. Over the next 30 years the challenges that face today's businesses will be so dramatic...
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The must-read summary of Amir Hartman's book: "Ruthless Execution: What Business Leaders Do When Their Companies Hit the Wall".
This complete summary of the ideas from Amir Hartman's book "Ruthless Execution" shows that every business, no matter how successful, eventually hits difficulties. When this happens, most businesses choose one of two strategies: trusting that hype will gloss over problems or savage layoffs combined with massive, unpopular...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Dave Marcum, Steve Smith and Mahan Khalsa's book "Business Think" shows that today, everyone in a business organization needs to be able to think logically and effectively. Therefore, what's needed is a new and better framework for thinking clearly. This summary highlights a set of eight ground rules which enable people to think rationally and make better decisions. The whole focus of Business Think is to reduce...
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