Adaptive Management

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context - whether in the private or the public sector - many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework.

Emotion Informs, but Behavior Transforms. Emotional intelligence was groundbreaking in its time, offering valuable tools for self-awareness and managing emotions. However, while EI is crucial, it often doesn’t address the root causes of performance challenges. People may take action based on emotional awareness, but they frequently don’t achieve the intended results because they don't truly understand the deeper factors driving behavior and performance. This gap can lead to frustration, as even well-intentioned actions fall short of producing lasting change. Adaptive Intelligence builds...

To edge out the competition in today's disruptive environment, you need to ensure that your company is agile - that it can respond to change instantly and effectively. Because fast and furious change is the only thing you can count on in business today. Network expert Michael Arena helped enable GM's legendary turnaround. In this book, he explains how you can transform your own company through the concept of adaptive space.

Short on study time but not willing to give up on certification? Looking for a comprehensive guide that fits your work schedule, deadlines, and daily responsibilities? If you see the CISSP as a concrete professional challenge—not just a theoretical one—this guide speaks your language. The CISSP Exam Prep Study Guide delivers a strategic and practical approach, designed by certified experts for professionals who think in terms of efficiency, risk, and impact. Domain-by-domain TLAM training, visual tools, and sustainable study plans to prepare thoroughly—in less time. What You'll Find ...

Stability isn’t built by guessing what comes next—it’s built by adapting to what’s already moving. The Adaptive Budget is a complete system for thriving in volatile economies where fixed plans fail and flexibility becomes the only real form of control. This book teaches readers how to turn chaos into structure by replacing rigid budgets with living systems that adjust automatically to income shifts, inflation spikes, and personal change. You’ll learn how to build elastic spending categories, trigger alerts that respond to real-world prices, and maintain calm through constant ...

In Streetlights and Shadows, Gary Klein debunks the conventional wisdom about how to make decisions. He takes 10 commonly accepted claims about decision-making and shows that they are better suited for the laboratory than for life. The standard advice works well when everything is clear, but the tough decisions involve shadowy conditions of complexity and ambiguity.

Through the lens of Rayburn Electric Cooperative's incredible journey, *Status Quo is Not Company Policy* offers a roadmap for leaders seeking to build resilient, adaptive organizations. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, this book will inspire you to embrace change, empower your people, and lead with fearlessness.

Transforming organizations is a complex, fluid endeavor far removed from the rigid, step-by-step processes of traditional change management. 'The 6 Big Ideas of Adaptable Organizations' equips change agents with the insights and approaches needed to navigate this complexity effectively. This book explores six pivotal concepts: The 2 Change Strategies of Effective Organizations: Delve into the dichotomy between optimizing existing systems and evolving organizational beliefs for profound transformation. The 5 Universals of Change: Learn why fostering a common purpose and embracing meaningful ...

This elegant method prompts listeners to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to careful observation. The second invites you to thoughtfully consider options and implications. The third ignites effective action. Together, these questions, and the tools that support them, produce a dynamic and creative dance with uncertainty.

Comfort feels safe until the bill arrives. Lean and Unbreakable is a blueprint for financial independence through clarity, not accumulation. It exposes how bloated lifestyles, excess spending, and fixed costs quietly erode freedom—and how simplicity becomes your strongest defense against volatility. Across thirty focused chapters, readers learn to design lives that outlast economic storms. Each section reveals how to strip away fragility, from housing and debt to mindset and daily habits. Through lean systems, efficiency replaces anxiety. Every dollar saved becomes a seed of independence;...

Covers foreclosure rules and regs for all 50 states Minimize your risks and maximize your return, while assisting homeowners Want to buy and sell foreclosure properties? This hands-on guide covers all aspects of investing in foreclosures, from identifying potential properties and assessing value...

Artificial Intelligence is not just another technology trend. It is the defining force of our generation, reshaping industries, disrupting business models, and rewriting the rules of competition. Yet, over half of corporate AI initiatives fail. Why? Because they focus on algorithms instead of organizations. In AI-Ready, you get the missing playbook. This is not a book about coding Python or the technical specs of neural networks. This is a strategic leader's guide to transforming your entire organization—its culture, talent, ethics, and operations—to harness the full power of AI. Inside...

Daniel Siegel, bestselling author and one of the leading researchers on the neuroscience of mindfulness, talks about creating adaptive, resilient organizations.

Leadership is not about position, or authority. It’s not about big speeches or grand visions. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Those challenges appear in our professional lives, in our communities, our families—and they seem unsolvable, beyond our ability to see what needs to be done or outside our capacity to make the changes needed. They are not. Because, leadership is an activity—small actions taken in moments of opportunity. And as you start to look around, you can begin to see more of those moments, seize the opportunity in those moments.

It is a practical leadership handbook full of real-life stories, insights and tips based on the authors’ many years of experience in senior leadership roles. A key insight is the need for leaders to recognise that one size does not fit all in the way they lead their organisation and interact with their people. Leaders need to be adaptive to the context and the person.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty...

Modern life bombards us with money choices. Pay the bill now or later? Save or spend? Cut back or enjoy? In a world of inflation, unstable jobs, and rising stress, most people rely on willpower and traditional budgets—and fail. The Wealth Operating System offers a radically different approach. This groundbreaking book introduces the idea of a financial operating system: a set of automated, values-driven rules that manage your money quietly in the background, just as the software on your phone keeps everything running. Instead of guilt-based budgets that collapse under stress, you’ll ...

Despite how much is written about strategy, and money spent on it, reports of chronic failures persist. Two causes dominate. Strategy is still not fully defined, and strategy practice is still largely based on a planned view of the world. Change and innovation, however, are not wholly planned but emerge from the myriad interactions of the players involved—some by design, many not. This science of complex adaptive systems must be the bedrock on which strategy is built.

The ancient Stoics had something. Modern psychology proved they were right. But there's a third option nobody's talking about. Picture those people who stay weirdly calm when everything goes wrong. Not the fake-zen types pretending life's all crystals and gratitude journals. The ones who genuinely don't lose their heads when the world's on fire. They're not built different. They're running different software.