How management can effectively rid themselves of 'monkeys' -- other people's responsibilities that cling to them and prevent them managing efficiently.

Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, and with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it. Here, the author shares his secrets, and tells how he tore up the rule books.

Presents studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems. This volume is directed toward the application of management science to financial management, specifically in portfolio analysis and in productivity management such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

A must-have combination for managers, the best selling Key Management Models is already a classic. If you want to be a model manager, keep this book close at hand. With over 33,000 copies soldKey Management Ratios focuses on business ratios that really count, it is the only book you need to keep your finances in check.

Teaches you about strategy analysis and how to model business systems and processes and covers other topics including business case development, change management, and engineering/information resource management. This book supports the ISEB qualifications in Business Analysis.

For undergraduate or graduate spreadsheet based courses in Management Science, Decision Modeling, Quantitative Methods, or Operations Research. This text emphasizes balancing the theory behind decision modeling and the use of spreadsheets to easily set up and solve these models. From a managerial perspective, the purpose of decision modeling is to gain insight into the problem, not the detailed ..

Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. How thinking with pictures can help you literally see the business world in a new way. Problem-solving skills are much in demand in business today - this book provides an original way to develop those skills. Based on a simple set of tools and rules, and full of quirky drawings, this book will appeal to all levels of managers and business people.

Imparts the use of wisdom in management and work practice, promoting it as an important research topic and demonstrating how it can be applied across a number of important management areas such as knowledge innovation and strategy.

A great meeting is simply one that achieves its objectives - in other words, where a problem is solved, a decision is made, a plan is developed, a question answered, or some other specific outcome is accomplished. This book helps you achieve better meeting results, whether it is an on-site team meeting, a tele-meeting, or a cross-cultural meeting.

Focuses on understanding the emergence of (un)ethical decisions and behaviors in our work and social lives by adopting a psychological framework. This book also focuses on reviewing our knowledge with respect to the specific notions of ethical behavior and corruption.

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As a result of the economy and poor business decisions, companies and organizations across the world face crisis. Then, they re-examine the way they make decisions. This book provides a resource to improve business decisions for executives and managers. It includes the proven techniques for making better business decisions.

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis has a major role to play in helping decision-makers to gain insights into the problems they face. This work covers both the psychological problems that are associated with unaided managerial decision making and the decision analysis methods designed to overcome them.

Knowledge Management (KM) concerns how you identify a crucial but under-used strategic asset present within all organizations (ie: 'knowledge') and exploit it to maximize competitive advantage. This book takes a building blocks approach to knowledge management.

Suitable for managers and students, this book provides a framework for overcoming problems of all kinds encountered within an organization. Both rational and more creative methods of problem-solving are presented, with an emphasis placed on their practical application.

This volume shows corporate decision-makers how to build a responsible rationale for hedging and trading in the new power markets of the US and Europe. It relates corporate tactics to developments in the new spot, futures and OTC markets, and discusses how to deal with key problems.

The Universe of Risk provides a comprehensive, colourful guide to risk management, incorporating the new drivers of risk, and a fresh model for business success.

Focuses on understanding the emergence of (un)ethical decisions and behaviors in our work and social lives by adopting a psychological framework. This book also focuses on reviewing our knowledge with respect to the specific notions of ethical behavior and corruption.

A multi-disciplinary exploration of how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions.

Providing a route map for risk management, this work brings together key principles, a recommended approach, a set of inter-related processes and pointers to sources of advice on risk management techniques and specialisms. It also shows how the guidance should be embedded, reviewed and applied depending on the nature of the objectives at risk.