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During the early stages of coronavirus, Amy Moudy Comeau, MBA, an award-winning and acclaimed marketing executive, began writing weekly emails to her Emory Healthcare marketing team every Friday, as a form of encouragement and support to get them through eight weeks of shelter-in-place, which turned into a three-year pandemic.

The capacity to find, grasp, and methodically and successfully address issues is called problem-solving. It is a cognitive and behavioral process that permits humans to go from an unpleasant circumstance to a desired one.

Most people overthink, overanalyze, and end up stuck in a spiral of stress, anxiety, and missed opportunities. But what if the real winners in life are the ones who left curve—the ones who keep things simple, act decisively, and don’t drown in endless details? The Power of Left Curve flips the classic bell curve meme into a life-changing strategy, showing you how to sidestep “mid-curve paralysis,” cut stress in half, and make smarter choices (backed by real science and wild real-life stories).

Since the start of this century, businesses have confronted a series of extreme and constant disruptions, including technological upheavals, a pandemic, and a global financial crisis. As a result, today’s leaders, from startup founders to the managers of global giants, face unprecedented pressures from their bosses, investors, customers, peers, suppliers, and employees. For many, it’s a recipe for disaster. Part of the problem is that these challenges, while acutely felt, are rarely articulated in a way that makes them graspable and actionable.

In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”