Improving Senior Leader Decision Making in a Complex, Uncertain World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improving Senior Leader Decision Making in a Complex, Uncertain World write by Mark D. Landers. This book was released on 2010. Improving Senior Leader Decision Making in a Complex, Uncertain World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper examines ways to improve Army senior leaders' decision making. After an initial description of the operational environment's complexity and uncertainty and an examination of the current decision making processes in use, the paper examines ways for improvement in the areas of design, risk management and incorporation of intuition. Given the complexity Army leaders face at the operational level, it is important to acknowledge that decision makers do not -- cannot -- have all relevant information impacting a decision. Accounting for, articulating, and accepting the unknown variables and uncertainties can improve decision making. Consequently, this paper explores the risk management process to better characterize operational risk and enable decision makers to better evaluate decisions' impact and effectiveness. Intuitive decision making, although somewhat contrary to Army culture, occurs frequently, based mostly on the decision maker's personality. Accepting intuition as a valued contributor to good decision making and incorporating elements of intuitive decision making can increase the robustness of a larger process. Recommendations for improvements to the Army's decision making processes conclude the paper.
Decide & Deliver
Decide & Deliver - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decide & Deliver write by Marcia W. Blenko. This book was released on 2010. Decide & Deliver available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -Identify your critical decisions. Focus on those that matter most to your company's performance. --
Joy at Work
Joy at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joy at Work write by Dennis W. Bakke. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Joy at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more. In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary company--and how, as its co-founder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America's organizations. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos -"let's have fun"-were conceived during a 90-minute car ride from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. In the next two decades, it became a worldwide energy giant with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. It's a remarkable tale told by a remarkable man: Bakke, a farm boy who was shaped by his religious faith, his years at Harvard Business School, and his experience working for the Federal Energy Administration. He rejects workplace drudgery as a noxious remnant of the Industrial Revolution. He believes work should be fun, and at AES he set out to prove it could be. Bakke sought not the empty "fun" of the Friday beer blast but the joy of a workplace where every person, from custodian to CEO, has the power to use his or her God-given talents free of needless corporate bureaucracy. In Joy at Work, Bakke tells how he helped create a company where every decision made at the top was lamented as a lost chance to delegate responsibility--and where all employees were encouraged to take the "game-winning shot," even when it wasn't a slam-dunk. Perhaps Bakke's most radical stand was his struggle to break the stranglehold of "creating shareholder value" on the corporate mind-set and replace it with more timeless values: integrity, fairness, social responsibility, and a sense of fun.
Senior Leadership Teams
Senior Leadership Teams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Senior Leadership Teams write by Ruth Wageman. This book was released on 2008-01-24. Senior Leadership Teams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An organization’s fate hinges on its CEO—right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creating a leadership team. One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team's shared work. Without the CEO's careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organization forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward. The authors explain how to determine whether your organization needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of 100+ top teams from around the world, they explain how to create a clear and compelling purpose for your team, get the right people on it, provide structure and support, and sharpen team members' competencies - and your own. Timely and practical, this book enables you to create and sustain a leadership team whose members learn from one another while collaborating to pursue your company's objectives.
Guide to Better Decision-Making
Guide to Better Decision-Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guide to Better Decision-Making write by Elizabeth Lewis. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Guide to Better Decision-Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following a clear understanding of your organization's culture, mission, goals and values, defining a process to make better decisions to reach those goals will be key to long-term success. The workbook steps the reader through the principles and advice in the companion full-length book, and guides establishment of methods and procedures to meet the specified goals.
