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Smarter Decision Making: How to Make the Right Choice by Harvard Business Review

Why do smart and experienced managers keep believing they have made the right decision, even when negative results are staring them in the face? This digital collection will help people at all levels understand the fundamental practices of effective decision making and problem solving so they can make better choices in both their professional and personal lives. 

It includes these 4 volumes: 

1.) "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions" (Ebook), a collection of 10 best-selling articles that give you the best practices for smart decision making. You'll learn how to make bold decisions that challenge the status quo; evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor; root out unconscious prejudices; and test your decisions with experiments.

2.)"What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve" (Ebook) by ThomasWedell-Wedellsborg, using real-world examples this book offers a simple, three-step method--Frame, Reframe, Move Forward--that anyone can use to start solving the right problems. 

3.) "Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work" (Ebook), by Joseph Badaracco recognizes that the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"--situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right?

4.)" HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions Ebook + Tools" provides downloadable exercises, worksheets, and templates to help you and your team look at problems in new ways, generate better solutions, overcome the cognitive biases that can skew your thinking, and make the right choice and make it stick. 

Artificial Intelligence Set: What You Need to Know About AI (2nd Ed) by Harvard Business Review

What do you really need to know about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution? This 3 item set will make it easier for you to understand how your company, industry, and career can be transformed by AI. It is a must-have for managers who need to recognize the potential impact of AI, how it is driving future growth, and how they can make the most of it. This collection includes: 

1. "Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI" (ebook) by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson; which reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability, as well as what you can do to achieve similar results. Based on the authors' experience and research with 1,500 organizations, this book describes six new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a "leader's guide" with the principals required to become an AI-fueled business. 

2. "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (ebook) by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb; the authors lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs. 

3. "Artificial Intelligence (ebook) explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company

Financial Intelligence Set: What You Need to Know to Succeed (2nd Edition)

Calculating and assessing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a balance sheet, wouldn't recognize a liquidity ratio, don't know how to calculate return on investment (ROI), and suffer from a fear of finance. This item digital set gives managers the savvy advice they need to increase their impact on financial planning, data analysis, and forecasting. It includes:

1. "HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers" which provides the fundamentals of financial literacy, offering tips on reading and deciphering financial statements, preparing a breakeven analysis, how to speak the language of ROI, and includes a powerful array of downloadable ready-to-use tools;

2. "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean" (Ebook) by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, and John Case, provides the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, as well as arming managers with practical strategies for improving their companies' performance;

3. "How Finance Works" (Ebook) by HBS professor Mihir Desai is based on a popular MBA class and guides you into the complex world of finance, demystifying it in the process;

4. "HBR Guide to Data Analytics for Managers ebook + Tools" will help managers tease insight from the data--to understand where it comes from, make sense of the numbers, and use those findings to inform their decisions.