Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

Life gets more complicated every day. Whether you’re struggling with information overload, attempting to act effectively with limited resources or trying to change bad habits – Kathleen can help. She and her co-author Don Sulls (MIT) have spent the last decade working with businesses around the world, and have developed a set of highly effective, tried-and-tested rules to help tackle complex problems, whatever they are. So, how do we make the best decisions when deluged with data? How do we solve problems across global networks? And how do we pinpoint what exactly it is that is holding us back from success? They have distilled two careers-worth of research, experience and work into a much needed guide to achieving our most pressing personal and professional objectives, from overcoming insomnia to becoming a better manager or a smarter investor. Full of tips, illuminating case studies and clear advice, Simple Rules provides the tools you need.

Speaker Details

Kathleen Eisenhardt is the S.W. Ascherman M.D. Professor at Stanford, highly-cited author, and Co-Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She is also co-author (w/Shona Brown) of “Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos”, winner of the George R. Terry Award and an Amazon Top 10 Business and Investing book. Kathleen has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos) and Clinton Global Initiative. She has won numerous awards including the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, ASQ Scholarly Contribution Award, and Schendel Best Paper prize, has four honorary degrees, and has given Oxford’s Clarendon Lectures. A renowned scholar, she was recently named the most cited research author in strategy and organization studies during the past 25 years.

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Kathleen Eisenhardt
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