Decision-Making & Problem Solving

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.

From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish....

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.

Improve your relationships and learn essential skills to get the results you want out of every conversation--including difficult ones.

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us....

Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter....

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....

How do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new audiobook, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset....

From the author of the international blockbuster The Psychology of Money comes a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles....

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

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....

From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.

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....

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....

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick....

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

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 the best-selling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting to achieve greater success....

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations....

Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's the sneakiest form of fear. It steals time, creativity, and goals. It's the most expensive, least productive thing companies invest in without even knowing it. And it's an epidemic....

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....

The coauthors of the New York Times best-selling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: How we see ourselves. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging....

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor....

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....

In a world where interest rates shift, careers take new turns, and desires evolve, our financial strategy must keep up. This is why The Wealth Ladder breaks wealth into six distinct levels, each demanding its own strategy. What works at Level 1 won’t cut it at Level 6—and vice versa. You’ll learn exactly how to handle your spending, income, investments, and more, with tailored advice for every stage. The result? Smarter choices, less stress, and a clear path upward.

What if working less is the smartest thing you can do? In The Lazy Engineer, Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman — engineer, educator, and productivity strategist — reveals how to How to Solve Complex Problems with Minimal Effort by applying industrial and systems thinking to your personal and professional life. This is not a book about being idle. It's about being efficient, intentional, and strategic — just like great engineers are trained to be. 🔹 Learn how to "engineer" your tasks to reduce wasted time and effort 🔹 Apply Lean Thinking, flow, and constraints theory to everyday ...

What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it), but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals—from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners—Distinguished Professor of Management Laura Huang discovered that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition, played the most important role. You Already Know offers a highly practical model that equips you to leverage your most powerful and underutilized resource.

Transform Your Thinking and Make Better Decisions with This Comprehensive Mental Models Workbook Are you tired of making poor decisions, getting stuck in analysis paralysis, or falling victim to cognitive biases? This practical workbook transforms complex mental models into actionable exercises that will revolutionize how you think, decide, and solve problems. What You'll Get: ✅ 50+ Hands-On Exercises - Practice essential mental models like First Principles Thinking, Bayesian Updating, and Systems Thinking ✅ Real-World Scenarios - Apply frameworks to business decisions, career choices, ...

THE ART OF COMMUNICATING, THE SCIENCE OF GETTING THINGS DONE — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION Want to consistently produce excellent results by exchanging information that produces clearer focus, builds consensus, eliminates mistakes, ensures shared understanding, and gets things done? This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results by transferring information between individuals within and outside a business, aiming to achieve a clearer focus, facilitate collaboration, build consensus, and ensure a shared understanding. We’ve ...

You hit "publish," but your content falls flat. Now what? Most creators just move on to the next thing, hoping it will do better. This "publish and pray" approach is a recipe for slow growth and wasted effort. The pros do it differently. They "publish and optimize." What if you had a system to take your existing content and systematically make it better? The Content Optimizer is Day 19 of your 30-day challenge, and it will turn you into a data-driven creator. This book gives you a simple system for analyzing your content's performance and using your AI to improve it. In this guide, you will...

Your business is running, but are you flying blind? You log into your analytics dashboards and see a wall of confusing numbers and acronyms. CTR, CPC, Bounce Rate, Open Rate. You know this data is important, but you have no idea what it means. So you ignore it, and you keep guessing about what's actually working. What if you could have a professional data analyst on your team, ready to translate those numbers into plain English? Your AI Data Analyst is Day 18 of your 30-day challenge, and it's designed to cure "data blindness" for good. This book gives you a simple system for understanding ...

THE ART OF FOLLOWERSHIP, THE HIDDEN HALF OF LEADERSHIP — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION. Want to consistently produce excellent results by adding greater value to those who contributed to your success, especially your boss. This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results in the real world, not in theory, but in action. Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to master the Art of FOLLOWERSHIP. Followers are the engines that power progress, the ones with boots on the ground that turn ideas ...

THE ART OF DELEGATING, THE SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION Want to consistently produce excellent results by enabling others to act on your behalf, allowing you to accomplish more than you ever could on your own. This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people develop, nurture, and empower others to act on their behalf, consistently producing excellent results in the real world, not just in theory, but in action. Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to master the Art of DELEGATING. We’ve worked ...

Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads.

In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty, and the trade-offs involved in reducing forms of uncertainty while leaving open opportunities for others.

Hard times and choices make hard individuals…learn to make solid tough calls by following the examples of the most pivotal global leaders! When the going gets tough, the tough don't get going — instead, they stick around and decide how to solve the problem. By using tried-and-tested strategies, ANYONE can gather the information, knowledge, data, and wisdom needed to make hard decisions that leverage progress and success.

An instructional leadership novel chronicling a company’s transformation from surviving to thriving. It highlights real leadership experiences using Excellent Cultures’ proven process—nearly five decades building the world’s best cultures for the world’s best companies. From surviving to thriving. Gavin Pearson and Stuart Smith were as different as two people could be, each with his own idea of how to grow a successful business. Gavin grew up in one foster home after another until adopted by a loving couple. What began as a wonderful family changed when his adopted father was killed.

"Beyond the Odds" offers a nuanced exploration of risk perception and management, challenging conventional wisdom and providing fresh insights into how individuals and organizations perceive, assess, and respond to risks. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and real-world examples, this book examines the cognitive biases and psychological factors that influence risk perception, shedding light on why people often overestimate or underestimate risks.

From the heat of the battlefield to the tension of the strategy room, The Unknown Enemy exposes a hidden threat that can bring even the most formidable military forces to their knees: Theory of Mind Errors. In this gripping exploration, Tim Short peels back the layers of human psychology to reveal how misjudgments, false assumptions, and cognitive traps turn victory into disaster.

In a world choking on information, certainty has become a performance—and it's slowly killing our clarity, creativity, and courage. We're expected to have the answer, the plan, the opinion. But what if the smartest leaders… don’t? The Ignorance Advantage is not your average leadership book. There are no recycled theories, no buzzword-laced strategies, no smug promises of success in five easy steps.

In a world flooded with information but starved for clarity, how do top performers make smart decisions when the facts don’t add up? Clarity in Chaos is your fast, no-fluff guide to thinking clearly and acting decisively under uncertainty. Inspired by the mental models of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the bold clarity of The Decision Book, and the practical punch of The One-Minute Manager, this powerful short listen gives you the tools to move forward—fast.

Owning Your IT is your own, personal guide to breaking free from the habits and behaviors that are holding you back. We all have an "IT"—those habits that seem to have more control over us than we do over them. In Owning Your IT, you'll learn how to identify yours and manage them better.

The books in this series have been written because Greg Olney cares about the Commitment to Change that comes about in each person and the failure that might get in the way of great change. Negative results may not happen right away. It may take years as the body builds up a resistance to the harmful effects of the poison we put into our system. Businesses and families work the same way. We put up with pain because we’re afraid of the alternative. Instead of kindly addressing issues, we wait for arguments to boil over when it’s harder to exercise self-control.

In The Great Stupidification, Kevin Whitworth takes you on a hilarious, infuriating, and eye-opening ride through a world that has traded critical thinking for clickbait, abandoned practical skills for pointless credentials, and elevated fake expertise to a global sport. From brain-melting corporate jargon to the rise of fake gurus, from the productivity theater of endless meetings to the social media circus where outrage is currency, this book exposes how we got so stupid—and why it’s getting worse.