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Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Pearson Education 2005; US$ 34.99Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK's Bay of Pigs Invasion, from... more...
Know What You Don't Know
Pearson Education 2009; US$ 32.99Problems remain hidden in organizations for a number of reasons, including fear, organizational complexity, gatekeepers who insulate leaders from problems that are coming up, and finally, an overemphasis on formal analysis in place of intuition and observation. This book lays out the key skills and capabilities required to ensure that problems do... more...
From Problem-Solving to Problem-Finding
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 6.99This Element is an excerpt from Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen (ISBN: 9780131568150) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. You can?t solve a problem you don?t know exists! Learn how leaders can uncover problems while they?re still small enough to solve easily! ... more...
Production and Economic Dynamics
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 37.00This volume outlines a novel approach to the analysis of structural economic dynamics. more...
Theory and Applications of Ontology
Springer 2010; US$ 149.99Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of 'what there is'. Recently, however, a field called 'ontology' has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in common than just their name. "Theory... more...
Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00This collection explores monetary institutions linking Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. more...
Profiting from the Clash of Ideas
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 1.99This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (ISBN: 9780137000630) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Use constructive conflict to drive better decision-making, greater innovation, and real competitive advantage. If an organization... more...
Keeping Conflict Constructive
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 1.99This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (ISBN: 9780137000630) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Promoting constructive dialogue--and keeping it from degenerating into destructive, dysfunctional... more...
The Dynamics of Indecision
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 1.99This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (9780131454392) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Why so many organizations fall into the trap of ?endless talk and no action??and how to escape... more...
Leading with Restraint
Pearson Education 2010; US$ 1.99This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (9780131454392) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Why ?take-charge? leadership requires surprising restraint: how to lead when you don?t, won?t,... more...









