"Success boils down to one thing: making good decisions. That's easy to say, but what do we do when we are faced with terrible options, deep anxiety and fear of failure? Learning the right framework now can make all the difference later. Turn to Decide and Conquer to access the decision framework David Siegel used when he took over as CEO of Meetup, the world's leading platform for making connections and finding your community. Let David's success...

Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business is the first and only book to link a decision-making and leadership platform to trends pointing to the future.
By identifying sixty global, long-term trends and detailing how businesspeople can leverage them in both the short- and long-term, the book provides readers with a powerful body of knowledge unavailable anywhere else. In Future Trends, consultant and futurist Larry...

"The Fox News host and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Doesn't Hurt to Ask shares his trusted framework for decision-making, a game-changing method for anyone at a crossroads in life"-- In life, there are crucial moments when you must decide your next move. Gowdy has found that most consequential decisions boil down to three simple options: start, stay, or leave. Over the years he has made some great decisions and some lousy ones-- but always...

"Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck." - From the Introduction The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each-and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time. In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives-yet...

"In today's volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible-or even desirable-to learn one set of job skills and to work your way up the ladder. At the same time, entrepreneurs with great ideas for new products or technologies that could change the world often struggle to capture the attention of venture capital firms and incubators; finding the funding necessary to launch a start-up can...

"The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, overcome their reflexes, and respond in the best way possible. You can too. The hardest part of leadership is mastering the inevitable high-risk, high-stakes challenges you will face. Whether you're making a split-second decision when your business is hit sideways or finding the best strategy to navigate business-critical long-term circumstances, how can you be at your best...

"For every algorithm that purports to mitigate bias, enable sophisticated thinking under time pressure, or leverage big data to simplify complex questions, there are loads of choices that require creative, reflective, and thoughtful interpretation of subjective human experience -- something artificial intelligence and rigorous analytics cannot yet replicate. What do we do when the obvious conclusion from a rigorous spreadsheet doesn't align to our...

"We live in a period of leadership in crisis. At home, we sense that unqualified and irresponsible individuals are being elevated to positions of power, while across the globe, strong men leaders consolidate their hold on governance. How have we arrived at this point? And how can we correct our course? For the past decade, Moshik Temkin has challenged his students at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to grapple with the nature of leadership...

"Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover...

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger. By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different.

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