This book explores the science behind intuitive decision-making in business, and shows how people's innate capacity for intuition can be nurtured and strengthened to maximize performance. We are all familiar with those perplexing situations when we think we 'just know' without knowing how or why we know. In professional life it might be the job candidate's CV that checks all the boxes but somehow doesn't stack-up: should we perform some due diligence and dig a little deeper? In personal life it could be the apartment that we're looking to rent that just felt right the minute we walked through the front door: should we trust our hunch and grab it while we can? What if time is of the essence? What if there isn't any more data to be had in the time available? In this volume, Eugene Sadler-Smith examines why situations like these often leave us in a quandary, and why these decisions so often leave us in two minds. He reveals that metaphorically speaking, we have two minds in one brain: an 'analytical mind' and an 'intuitive mind', which sometimes come to quite different conclusions about what we ought to do in those consequential decisions that permeate our professional and personal lives. Rather than thinking of our intuitive and analytical minds in constant battle with each other, we might instead think of them as two information-processing systems that have evolved to complement each other. The main idea of this book is that our analytical mind evolved to 'solve' whilst our intuitive mind evolved to 'sense'. Neither is infallible, and our intuitions can be both flawed and marvellous at the same time. The author's clear and detailed explanation of the science behind intuition reveals how we can make intelligent use of our intuition to sense and solve our way through a world that is fast-moving, complex, and uncertain.

Get fast and easy results in your business by improving your intuition. This book not only explains the power of bringing intuition into your business, but it helps you develop your intuitive senses by giving you practical actions you can take to tap into and trust your intuition.If you're ignoring your business intuition, you might find it difficult to make decisions. You might struggle to set goals or to achieve them. You might find yourself making bad decisions that you later regret, kicking yourself because you knew all along, deep down, that it wasn't the right thing to do. When we follow our business intuition, it's like having an inner compass or GPS system that directs our thoughts and actions. It gives us useful bits of advice and it helps us to quickly and easily make decisions by giving us us crystal clarity of mind, which takes the stress out of knowing which path to choose for our business. Our intuition helps us to simply know if an opportunity is good or not, and to easily take decisive action when it is. This book will help you to easily access your business intuition. It gives you practical tips on how to develop your intuition, how to make it easier to hear its messages, how to trust your intuition, and how to use it in your business. It's designed to provide you with the information as quickly and simply as possible, so you can easily learn how to make intuition a bigger part of your business.This book is for you if:* You've ever made a bad business investment, whether it was an expensive business coach/mentor, an online program, or something else. You regret that decision, and you wonder how you could have thought that was the right thing for you at that time.* You've ever had a bad feeling about a new project that your business mentor encouraged you to take on, but went through with it anyway because you believed she must know best, only to have it flop in the end. Afterwards, you were left kicking yourself and wondering what went wrong. * You've ever listened to a business buddy's advice about what you needed to do to grow your business more quickly, even though it didn't seem right, and later regretted your decision. And then you wondered, if it worked for her, why didn't it work for you? * You've ever felt stuck and frustrated because you had absolutely no idea what to do in a particular situation, and then ended up making the wrong decision. It made you feel even more frustrated, because you spent time carefully considering the pros and cons of each option, and even then it didn't work out in your favor. * You've ever had a great idea for something, but then your head got in the way, and you now regret never taking action on it.Intuition is like a flashlight that shows us the next step or steps on our path toward our business goals. It gives us the confidence to take the next step and start walking down the path, even when we can't see the entire journey from here to our goals. When Iyou don't follow my intuition, you may feel like you're fumbling around in the dark. When you do follow it, you'll be confident in the actions that you take. In this book, you will learn:* Why it's so important for entrepreneurs to pay attention to their intuition* Why listening to your intuition can make business so much easier* What your business could look like if you listened to your intuition* How to develop your business intuition* Ways to make it easier for you to trust your intuition* How to use intuition in your business

This book describes an advanced generalist approach to direct social work practice with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Intervention paradigms that include psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral/communications, experiential/humanistic, existential and transpersonal are presented as the four sources of social work.

In an era of big data and data analytics, how can managers make decisions based on almost unlimited information, not to mention hiring and retaining individuals with the required data analytics skills? The new fourth edition of Essentials of Business Research Methods explains research methods and analytical techniques for individuals who aren't data scientists. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach to the vital managerial process of gathering and using data to make relevant and timely business decisions. They include critical topics, such as the increasing role of online research, ethical issues, privacy matters, data analytics, customer relationship management, how to conduct information-gathering activities more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment, and more. This is also the only text that includes a chapter on qualitative data analysis, and the coverage of quantitative data analysis is more extensive as well as much easier to understand than in other texts. A realistic continuing case used throughout the book, applied research examples, and ethical dilemma mini cases enable upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students to see how business research information is used in the real world. This comprehensive textbook is supported by a range of online resources, including instructors’ manuals, PowerPoint slides, and test banks.

Fully updated for this 6th annual edition, the Good Small Business Guide 2012 is packed with essential advice for small business owners or budding entrepreneurs. Offering help on all aspects of starting, running and growing a small business, including: planning, setting up or acquiring a business, getting to grips with figures, marketing, selling online, and managing yourself and others. Containing over 140 easy-to-read articles, brand-new Viewpoints from people who've been there and done it (and lived to tell the tale), and an extensive information directory this fully updated guide offers help on all aspects of starting and growing a small business.

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the 6th International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance (ICMLG 2018) which is being hosted this year by the Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA), a Centre of Excellence of at Bangkok University, Thailand on 24-25 May 2018.

The International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning discusses what constitutes professionalism, examines the concepts and practices of professional and practice-based learning, including associated research traditions and educational provisions. It also explores professional learning in institutions of higher and vocational education as well the practice settings where professionals work and learn, focusing on both initial and ongoing development and how that learning is assessed. The Handbook features research from expert contributors in education, studies of the professions, and accounts of research methodologies from a range of informing disciplines. It is organized in two parts. The first part sets out conceptions of professionalism at work, how professions, work and learning can be understood, and examines the kinds of institutional practices organized for developing occupational capacities. The second part focuses on procedural issues associated with learning for and through professional practice, and how assessment of professional capacities might progress. The key premise of this Handbook is that during both initial and ongoing professional development, individual learning processes are influenced and shaped through their professional environment and practices. Moreover, in turn, the practice and processes of learning through practice are shaped by their development, all of which are required to be understood through a range of research orientations, methods and findings. This Handbook will appeal to academics working in fields of professional practice, including those who are concerned about developing these capacities in their students. In addition, students and research students will also find this Handbook a key reference resource to the field.