The Executive Discovery(TM): From Better Questions to Extraordinary Results - Softcover

Jarvis, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798256270049

Publisher: Shielded Vision Press, 2026

Synopsis

What if the greatest opportunities in your organization are hidden behind the questions no one is asking?

Most leaders are trained to solve problems. Few are taught how to discover the right problems to solve.

The Executive Discovery introduces a practical methodology that transforms decision-making by replacing assumptions with structured discovery. Rather than rushing to solutions, executives learn how to uncover the insights, align stakeholders, and build the shared understanding necessary to achieve extraordinary results.

Drawing on decades of executive leadership, turnarounds, acquisitions, and strategic transformation, Ed Jarvis presents a framework that helps leaders:

• Discover the organization's greatest opportunities.
• Improve executive decision-making.
• Build trust through collaborative discovery.
• Align diverse perspectives before committing resources.
• Reduce risk while increasing the likelihood of successful execution.

This is not another leadership theory or management textbook. It is a practical guide for executives, business owners, board members, consultants, and leaders who understand that the quality of their decisions depends on the quality of their discovery.

Better questions lead to better decisions. Better decisions lead to extraordinary results.

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About the Author

Edward C. Jarvis is an executive, entrepreneur, author, educator, and inventor who has served as an executive and corporate officer for both public and privately held corporations.Throughout his career, Ed has faced consequential decisions where the answer was rarely obvious at the beginning. Again and again, he found that the quality of a decision depended on something that happened first: discovery.Ed holds a B.A. from Bridgewater State University and an M.B.A. in International Business and Finance from Suffolk University, with advanced management studies at Dartmouth College. His academic career included serving as Founding Executive Director of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Business at Suffolk University, and Executive in Residence at Bridgewater State University, where he worked with the next generation of business leaders.His professional experience spans General Electric, international business, entrepreneurship, turnarounds, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, technology, and organizational growth. He also invented and patented OneXcel(TM), an optically correct face shield designed to increase safety while allowing enhanced performance in helmeted sports. OneXcel(TM) was used in the NFL, NHL, NCAA, International Olympics, and skiing. He ultimately sold the corporation to Oakley, the nationally recognized public company.Ed is also a U.S. Coast Guard-credentialed Master Captain and instructor. Different worlds. Different challenges. Different decisions. Those experiences helped shape the thinking behind Executive Discovery.Executive Discovery was not created as an academic theory or management formula. It evolved from real situations where leaders had to make consequential decisions-and where discovering what was really happening could change the outcome.The lesson was simple: better decisions begin with better discovery. Through Shielded Vision Press and the Executive Discovery collection, Ed brings those experiences directly to readers and leaders-not as prescriptions, but as an invitation to ask better questions, uncover what may be missing, and make better decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shielded Vision Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798256270049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234