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Roberts M: Optionality

Optionality

How to Build a Life with More Doors, More Freedom, and More Choices

In a world of tremendous change, uncertainty, and simplistic AI-driven answers, it is easy to look to an uncertain future with anxiety. In The Leader's Oracle, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Roopa Unnikrishnan shows that the wisest leaders instead look to the ancient past for inspiration. By channeling the Oracle of Delphi, these leaders ask better questions and challenge their organizations to transform. Offering a provocative lens on the future of strategic leadership, The Leader's Oracle is not just a book about strategy—it is a call for a cultural shift in how we lead, how we think, and how we build organizations. Through this uniquely powerful framework, readers examine and harness the timeless wisdom of the ancients to help their own business and career: <ul><li>operate at the edge of clarity</li><li>interpret patterns and possibilities</li><li>provoke transformation, not comfort </li><li>serve the powerful, but answer to the truth</li><li>protect future-facing wisdom in a reactive world</li></ul> This unique framework on business strategy and leadership explores a critical paradox in today’s corporate environment: in a world obsessed with operational excellence and short-term wins while struggling with historic transformational changes, we often neglect the voices of the long-term thinkers, the strategic questioners, the ones who highlight or introduce ambiguity to force clarity. The Leader's Oracle serves as a call to arms for leaders, board members, and aspiring strategists to embrace their inner Delphic voice—one that cuts through noise, evokes questions, and drives tectonic shifts, not just tactical maneuvers.

Using Ancient Wisdom to Improve Strategy and Decision-Making

The Leader's Oracle

People don't need more motivation. They need a better way to think.

For nearly 30 years, Robert Jacques led operations and construction teams, serving as Vice President of Operations and later Director of Construction for more than two decades. Long before he wrote The Glass Is Full System, he was applying its principles to make high-stakes decisions, build high-performing teams, and solve complex business challenges.

But the system wasn't born in the boardroom.

It was forged through a journey that began in foster care and evolved into a lifelong pursuit of understanding why some people consistently rise above adversity while others remain trapped by it.

The Glass Is Full System introduces a practical framework built on three foundational principles:Mission: Stay focused on what truly matters.
Calm: Respond with clarity instead of reacting emotionally.
Consistency: Build the habits that shape your identity and your future.




Supported by psychology, neuroscience, and decades of real-world leadership experience, this isn't another collection of generic motivational quotes. It's a practical framework for seeing what others miss-so you can make better decisions, build stronger relationships, and lead with greater confidence.

Whether you're leading a company, strengthening your relationships, or simply trying to become the person you're capable of being, The Glass Is Full System offers a transformative way to think differently. Because when you change how you see the world, you change how you live in it.

See what others miss.

The Glass is Full System

The Promise and Peril of Navigating Our Agentic AI Future

When Machines Act

A concise yet powerful guide to identifying and leveraging your competitive advantage in any situation, to the point that it’s practically unfair—from the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and The Great Mental Models Unfair advantages come from doing what anyone can, but almost no one will. It isn’t the amount of raw talent, luck, or connections someone has that enables them to produce extraordinary results. It’s the willingness to do what most people won’t. In this follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish moves from thinking better to actions that make a difference. He distills decades of research and observation into 33 practical and powerful lessons that will help you tap your highest potential and give you an edge over the majority of others.&nbsp; You’ll learn how to: <ul><li>Use the time no one sees to build skills everyone notices</li><li>Act quickly before problems grow and opportunities disappear</li><li>Become irreplaceable by solving the hard problems others avoid</li><li>Hold tight to your goal while letting go of a plan that no longer works</li><li>Make fast decisions when mistakes are cheap and slow down when they aren’t</li><li>Build a reputation that does 99% of the work for you</li><li>Keep going when the work is paying off, but the results haven’t shown up yet</li></ul> Packed with memorable stories of underdogs and innovators, along with powerful mental models and easy to apply strategies, Unfair Advantage is a playbook for getting ahead. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, professional, or avid learner, it will change the way you think about competition, growth, and what it takes to get ahead in business and in life. You can access the unfair advantage. This book shows you how.

Simple Choices That Position You to Win

Unfair Advantage

The primary objective of this work is to develop a behavioral basis for an AI algorithm to assist managers of finance, production, and marketing divisions of firms in imperfect markets. Production, sales revenue, external finance, and networth (market value of the fixed assets) have the pivotal role as objectives. However, all of them cannot be maximized simultaneously due to the interdependence among them. The managers tend to pursue the most valuable objective using the most productive strategy at each point of time. This was utilized as a basis for the AI algorithm. Non-linearities in the switches in objectives and strategies are a short run phenomenon while swaps will be preferred if firms have a long run advantage. Such observed phenomena were also incorporated in the specification of the AI algorithms. The important results are as follows. (i) In most industries the shortage of demand is not a constraint. Instead, the ability of firms to increase their strategic supply is dominant. (ii) Most firms pursue strategic supply based on the capital stock available. This indicates a preference for external finance. (iii) In the short run firms utilize working capital finance and selling costs to ensure that the sales revenue achieved is commensurate with the strategic supply. (iv) Thus, the postulate that expected demand determines the strategic supply as well as the profit maximization postulate for the short run do not appear as the priorities.

Towards an AI Algorithm for Multiple Objectives in Imperfect Markets

When the plan can’t keep up with changing conditions, strategic judgment must. Strategic leaders increasingly make consequential decisions in the gap between strategic intent and the plan of action. They need to stay oriented toward what they are trying to create while continually deciding what to hold, what to adapt, and what to let go of to meet rapidly changing conditions. The challenge is that pressure can begin shaping those decisions before you realize it. Over time, hundreds of reasonable choices can add up to something no one intended. In this book, strategist and executive coach Karin Blair reveals a hidden lever behind strategic judgment: the inner capacity of the leader making those calls. Through a framework of interconnected agilities, you’ll learn to <ul><li>build emotional agility to recognize when self-protection and reactivity are shaping your judgment,</li><li>develop cognitive agility to widen the perspectives and possibilities you can consider before deciding, and</li><li>strengthen navigational agility to stay oriented and committed as conditions change and results remain uncertain.</li></ul> With practical insights and real-world examples, Blair helps you recognize when pressure is narrowing your judgment and build the agilities that strengthen your capacity over time, so you can draw on it when the stakes are high. You can’t change the terrain. But you can expand your inner capacity to navigate it.

3 Agilities for Strategic Decisions

Capacity Under Pressure

'Perform &amp; Transform is an engaging, practical guide to the under-appreciated human dimension at the heart of successful transformations.' - Scott D. Anthony, Clinical Professor of Strategy, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

Transformation is no longer an occasional initiative - it's the day job. New technology, AI, shifting customer expectations and constant disruption are widening the gap between how organisations run today and what the future demands.
In Perform &amp; Transform, transformation specialist Aleksandra Hertelendi offers a practical strategy book for business leaders who need results without burning out their people. Built for real-world complexity (where the "masterplan" breaks), this book sets out an actionable framework that sticks.
Each chapter turns insight into practice with clear tools, "tiny experiments", reflection prompts and decision frameworks you can use immediately.
Perform &amp; Transform shows how to:
¿ distinguish change from true transformation
¿ build team momentum under pressure
¿ craft narratives that generate commitment, not compliance
¿ design systems that reinforce new behaviours
¿ run strategy as a compass
¿ simplify using a new lens
Learn how to "perform and transform" - delivering today's KPIs while building tomorrow's capabilities. This is a practical and inspiring guide for CEOs, founders, transformation directors and senior leaders to organisational transformation, digital transformation and culture change in the age of AI - practically, humanely and at speed, for every industry.
About the Author
Aleksandra Hertelendi is a transformation strategist based in London. She has supported British executives in telecoms, media, fintech, and public infrastructure through mergers and acquisitions, leadership restructuring, and cultural reinvention. Her work has connected her with leading academic thinkers at Harvard, Dartmouth, Oxford Said, and London Business School.
Reviews
'Read this book if you are prepared to roll your sleeves up and wade into the murky waters of change. This book will shape what you do and give you a toolkit to align leaders.' - Dr Alison Maitland, Psychologist, Author of Drop the Struggle and Consulting Director, Becoming International
'Her insight, beliefs and skills shine through in this book - which in short is a powerful, impactful and enjoyable read for any executive or anyone interested in change, organisations and people.' - Dr Stuart Wainwright OBE, Chief Executive, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

A Practical Strategy for Leaders Balancing KPIs, Culture and the Future

Perform & Transform

Two of the world's leading researchers on behavior and decision-making join forces to equip readers with the knowledge, tools, and techniques to live their fullest human life in an age of powerful technology.We have more choice than ever before yet feel less in control. This book is about fighting back—individually and collectively—and becoming the best of ourselves.Drawing on over 1,000 experiments run across more than seventy countries, Halpern and Costa pair rigorous scientific findings with compelling stories, to pull back the curtain on the psychological, systemic, and technological forces that shape our decisions and behavior. More than that, they outline practical ways to make better decisions and put humans back in the driver’s seat with agency to shape—rather than be manipulated by—the forces around us.Super-Human unfolds across three parts: <ul><li>Human. What can each of us do to sharpen our own decision-making and strengthen our agency?</li><li>Supra-Human. How can we design social networks, markets, and institutions to expand human agency?</li><li>Super-Human. How can we shape artificial intelligence so that it amplifies human capability and agency rather than replacing or eroding it?</li></ul>Our minds have been shaped by the technologies and institutions of our ancestors, in ways they could not have anticipated. We have an advantage they lacked: we can see the choices coming. Super-Human ultimately asks us to make the biggest choice of all: in an age when machines can “think,” act, and even “feel” on our behalf—what kind of humans do we want to be? Can we become both more super, and more human?

Reclaiming Our Power to Choose and Shape the Future

Super-Human

Nothing Has to Happen Today

A Financial Times best book of 2025'This is the guide you've been waiting for' Steve Chen, co-founder, YouTube'Masterfully reveals how to combine the rigour of data with the nuance of personal experience - and make better decisions in every aspect of life' Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets You Already Know reveals how to harness your intuition - your brain's natural blend of experience and data - to make smarter decisions and achieve more. Drawing on groundbreaking research and hundreds of interviews with top performers, Huang shows that gut instinct isn't random - it's trainable. With practical exercises and a science-backed model, she helps you transform intuition from passive hunches into a powerful, intentional tool for success.

The Science of Mastering Your Intuition

You Already Know

A practical and accessible approach for how to plan for and complete a consumer insights research project from the initial request for proposal (RFP) to the final presentation of findings, this second edition handbook features new real-world examples and techniques and a new chapter on the uses of the latest research technologies and AI. Danielle Sarver Coombs flips the typical model presented in research methods textbooks to emphasize that data should be used to understand people as thoughtful, deliberative audiences. As such, consumer insights research should be done with the goal of better understanding target audiences in a meaningful way. With this orientation in mind, these insight-driven research projects allow decision makers to tap into consumers' wants, needs, and desires through messaging and products designed to resonate. Guided by the author's own experience in the field as well as guidance from current practitioners on the client, boutique, and agency sides, this book offers an accessible, thorough, and compelling perspective on how to plan for and complete consumer insights research projects from the initial RFP to the final presentation of findings. Each chapter includes a guide for how to conduct in-class research, quotes and recommendations from experts in the field, and case studies and real-world examples.

Using Audience Research to Make Smart Decisions

The Consumer Insights Handbook

Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur
A short guidebook for making safer decisions when the margin for error is thin

You're not bad with money. You're overloaded.

When you're under debt, urgency crowds out clarity. Every decision feels necessary, every option feels risky, and most advice assumes you still have the time, energy, and focus to think straight. This book starts from a different place.

Rebuilding Under Debt is not about getting rich, fixing your mindset, or chasing quick wins. It is not a step-by-step payoff plan. It is a practical guide to clearer judgment under financial pressure.

By naming the cognitive state of debt as The Blur and introducing simple, stabilizing ideas like No Heroics and Positioning, this book helps you reduce mistakes before trying to optimize outcomes. Its goal is not dramatic transformation. Its goal is decision safety when your thinking is under strain.

Written from inside the problem, not after a clean escape, this is a calm, judgment-free guide for staying intact long enough to recover. It is for people who already know the basics-budgeting, cutting expenses, paying things down-but find that knowledge alone is not enough when anxiety distorts judgment and the cost of being wrong feels unbearable.

Inside, you'll find:
a framework for safer decisions under pressure
rules that stop small mistakes from compounding
a way to distinguish income from real stability
systems designed for low-energy days, not ideal conditions
guidance on using leverage and tools like AI without outsourcing judgment
a realistic definition of stability you can actually measure




This book will not tell you what to chase. It will help you stop making things worse so better options can emerge.

Rebuilding under debt is rarely dramatic. It is careful, constrained, and deeply human. This guide exists to help you move forward without self-betrayal-one safer decision at a time.

Rebuilding Under Debt

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