Management & Strategy

This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale - and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.

Suitable for undergraduate students, this book presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective.

"e;Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers"e; is a comprehensive guide--think of it as a field manual--to the management challenges of supervising and leading programmers. J. Hank Rainwater introduces new and not-so-new managers to concepts that will encourage them and help them become a strong leaders for their teams. You ll learn about the varieties of programmer personality traits and be able match personnel to projects for maximum productivity. You ll also learn how to manage your strengths and weaknesses as you improve your leadership skills, which will result in dramatic improvements to your team s success. In this how-to manual thats both practical and thought- provoking, youll find several chapters devoted to administrative aspects of your job, such as managing meetings, hiring and firing, and principles of organizing your job for success. Rainwater also describes task management software he built that you can use to organize project assignments. (The source code for this software is available for download once you own the book.) The chapter on technical leadership, which highlights the importance of architecture, design, and code reviews, not only illustrates practical applications of leadership, but also digs deep into concrete methods you must employ. Rainwater shows why things can go wrong for a leader and how to correct career-derailing problems as they arise. One chapter is devoted to the working relationship that you as a manager have with your boss, and it guides you into the best way to respond to the pressures of software project deadlines. Numerous other topics are discussed that are a necessity for anyone seeking to manage the peopleware aspects of software development. "e;Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers"e; is the definitive guide to the challenges and obstacles facing anyone who manages programmers. Author InformationHank Rainwater leads programmers who build software for the insurance industry at Risk Sciences Group in Atlanta, Georgia. His career in science and engineering has spanned over three decades and has included writing Fortran programs on punch cards; teaching college mathematics; conducting research in radio astronomy, missile guidance systems, and remote sensing technologies; and managing the building of embedded digital control systems. As a software professional, Hank has served as a consultant, mentor, and teacher of programming languages and has led development teams in several industries.

Award-winning business professor Keith Murnighan teaches us how doing less will get you more in Do Nothing!Would you like to go on holiday without having to check daily that your team is doing its job? Can you turn off your phone and your email, knowing that everything is under control?For most managers this is just a dream. But Do Nothing! reveals that such a 'hands off' approach is both achievable and highly effective.In this compelling and imaginative book, award-winning business professor Keith Murnighan shows how really successful leaders create a culture of independence and trust. Identify the team members who you can rely on - then step aside and let them do their jobs. With a raft of provocative suggestions ('ignore performance goals!', 'de-emphasize profits!'), Do Nothing! proves that behaving naturally can work against you. Doing less will get you more.'A compelling analysis...Allows leaders to both work less and be better at their craft' Robert Cialdini, author of Influence'This rare book provides a refreshing perspective and tangible advice on leadership that isn't available anyplace else' Bob Sutton, author of The No Asshole RuleJ. Keith Murnighan is an award-winning professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an active consul tant and trainer for a host of companies around the world. His research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Econo mist, and Forbes. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

A comprehensive, practical guide for product managers and product owners on leading stakeholders and development teams. It explains how to influence people, build trust, bring clarity to roles and responsibilities, set clear and shared goals, engage in effective conversations, successfully resolve conflict, and secure strong support for decisions.

What might happen if "small talk" was replaced with conversations that matter? In their Bestselling book, Will Wise and Chad Littlefield explain how the questions we traditionally ask are often meaningless when it comes to establishing a connection. Introducing a set of practice tools for understanding others by changing the way we ask questions, Will and Chad show how to transform "How are you?-I'm fine, thanks" into conversations that change not only how you lead but who you are as a person. Educators, business professionals, personal coaches, and anyone in a position of leadership will relate to the personal successes and failures Will shares. He unpacks the art of asking questions that lay the foundation for trust, psychological safety, productivity, and impact. Chad complements Will's personal stories and examples with fascinating facts and nuances in neuroscience that are behind the art of asking. Together, the art of asking and the science behind it join to create a simple and powerful framework for leaders to build a culture of connection. In his book, Will and Chad break it down into six simple steps for all of us to be able to understand. The Asking Powerful Questions Pyramid¿ shows you how to build:IntentionRapportOpennessListeningEmpathyPowerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this book is for you. If you want to navigate difficult conversations with your spouse or a friend, or practice presence-based listening with your kids...this book is for you. If you want to become a better educator and facilitate an ice breaker conversation with colleagues...this book is for you. Ask Powerful Questions invites the reader on a journey that explores: the clarity of intent, connecting through rapport, creating openness, reflective listening, and empathy. How can we explore the space between ourselves and others, and exchange meaningful perspectives? Just ask-powerfully.

YOUR GUIDE TO CREATING A SUCCESSFUL LIFE100 Things Successful People Do is your guide to successful living. Mixing simple instructions with activities to get you started, whether you are looking to succeed in your family life, at work, in sports, at school or in retirement, you will find mindsets, habits, and techniques here that will help you get the results you want.'Inspiring and practical' Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of TRIGGERS100 Things Successful People Do is packed with great ideas for working smart and living well, all carefully chosen to help you achieve any kind of success you can imagine. You will discover the habits that are common to successful people and find out how to use them in your own life. Every chapter features a new idea that will help you get closer to your goals. Mixing simple descriptions with activities and exercises, you will learn the optimal mindset and habits you need to succeed in work and life.

A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power-and how it stifles workers around the worldIn an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world's working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a prosthetic hip costs more. Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power-the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research and telling the stories of common workers throughout, he demonstrates how market power has suffocated the world of work, and how, without better mechanisms to ensure competition, it could lead to disastrous market corrections and political turmoil.The Profit Paradox describes how, over the past forty years, a handful of companies have reaped most of the rewards of technological advancements-acquiring rivals, securing huge profits, and creating brutally unequal outcomes for workers. Instead of passing on the benefits of better technologies to consumers through lower prices, these "e;superstar"e; companies leverage new technologies to charge even higher prices. The consequences are already immense, from unnecessarily high prices for virtually everything, to fewer startups that can compete, to rising inequality and stagnating wages for most workers, to severely limited social mobility.A provocative investigation into how market power hurts average working people, The Profit Paradox also offers concrete solutions for fixing the problem and restoring a healthy economy.

Artificial intelligence should be changing society, not reinforcing capitalist notions of work

Lucy Adams's bestselling HR Disrupted (2017) called for a radical change in how we treat our most important resource of all - our people. Now she has created the handbook for HR professionals, showing exactly how to go about making the change to create a function fit for world-leading 21st century organisations.

H3 Leadership provides a practical road map for implementing and living out 20 transformational habits of a leader.

Are you one of those people who dream about creating a name for yourself through a business, but do not know where to begin?Have you always wanted to have a passive source of income to boost your current job?Or simply do you shy away from investment because you don''t have "enough" capital to start a business?If you have answered yes to any of these questions, dropshipping is the business for you. It is the only low-risk business that allows you to make to a 6 figure income a month from the comfort of your house with just a few hundred dollars as a capital.You''ll play the role of intermediary as a dropshipper, initiating the order process for your customers without personally managing any product. And you''ll be able to simplify your company with dropshipping automation software so that your shop can run itself and make money with little or no effort on your end.This flawlessly written guidebook by Howell Leonard is your full guide to developing and operating a prosperous and productive dropshipping business. This book will kick-start your ability to make a massive deal of money via the internet. The great thing about dropshipping is it''s a company that you can develop completely on your own timetable and.To guide lays out the finer points of establishing a dropshipping business from A to Z.The topics featured in this book include:Understanding how dropshipping worksThe benefits and drawbacks that come along with itThe mindset you need to run a successful dropshipping market and how to start off your own dropshipping businessFinding a suitable nicheUnderstanding the power of social Media marketingMaking money with Affiliate marketing and Amazon FBAMarketing using Shopify, Amazon, eBay and Alternative ChannelsAnd so much more!!Although there are many books on the market regarding this subject, it has been written by an experienced dropshipping consultant with years of success in the industry, and what more can one ask for than a steady hand to guide you through the oft-tempestuous journey to profitability.From selecting a niche product to proving strategies you can use to destroy the competition, this book is the ultimate dropshipping guide that every dropshipper should read.So what are you waiting for? Do yourself a favor today and grab a copy to start now the 6 figure business you have always desired.

The challenges facing supply chain professionals are changing rapidly. Today, far from focusing on capital expenditures and logistics such as warehousing and distribution, supply chain executives are expected to understand all aspects of the business, appreciate the constraints and expectations of upstream and downstream partners, and possess sufficient technological savvy to navigate the bewildering array of options presented by Industry 4.0 and supply chain digitalization (SCD). This book is for them.The Digital Supply Chain Challenge: Breaking Through is a distillation of the authors'' 50+ years of combined supply chain experience, both at the coal face and in the classroom. Their insights and observations - captured in short articles and best-practice case studies - are brought together in one place for supply chain executives to consult at different times during their SCD voyage, to find benchmarks, relevant insights or even just to help formulate the right questions along the way. It is a sort of handbook to the essentials of digital supply chain transformation.

Service Design Models, Tools & Templates is a collection of techniques from the Service Designer''s Handbook Series, a suite of courses and handbooks published by the International Service Design Institute, Inc., featuring techniques and case studies for designing and building services (Lines of Business). The content is presented in sequential order, so practitioners can use the book for successive stages of designing. To learn more: www.internationalservicedesigninstitute.com,

Learn how to leverage employee advocacy as a new channel to market and develop trusted brand messages with this expert blueprint.

Build an agile business through digital transformation more quickly and easily with this practical guide.

When all is said and done, a lot more gets said than done. What is the antidote to this? Ruthless Consistency.According to Harvard Business Review, "most studies still show a 60-70% failure rate for organizational change projects-a statistic that has stayed constant from the 1970s to the present." Drawing on his 20+ years of experience as a strategy and execution consultant specializing in midsize companies, Michael Canic helps committed leaders drive the odds in their favor. In Ruthless Consistency, he identifies the three surprising reasons most strategic change initiatives fail:Leaders unwittingly send mixed messages that demotivate their people and undermine those initiatives.Leaders focus on what they do instead of what their people experience.Leaders are not as committed as they think they are or need to be.The book then introduces an intuitive yet comprehensive model for success. Simply put, leaders who develop the right focus, create the right environment, and build the right team-consistently-are leaders whose organizations win. Finally, it details each element of the model and offers ready-to-apply processes, practices, techniques, and tools to make it happen. It's a must-read for every leader who wants to implement change successfully.

Put down your phone! Filling your downtime scrolling through social media is a bad habit. Here are thousands (thousands!) of things you can do instead that will result in a more mindful, rich, creative, fun, and engaged life.

Provides a comprehensive and accessible guide for enterprises of all shapes and sizes to make the most of their people.

''The lessons and practices here will shift a sense of chaos to one of clarity and a mindset of fear to one of hope'' Margaret Heffernan, bestselling author of Wilful Blindness ___________________________________________________________________________________How often do you interrupt? How often do people interrupt you? Can you remember the last time someone listened to you all the way through your thinking?In a time when communication is more challenging than ever and relationships need to be nurtured, listening to one another could not be more important. In her new book, Nancy Kline, bestselling author of Time To Think, suggests that for us to radically improve our communication we should make the propmise ''I won''t interrupt you''. This promise matters because when we interrupt each other, we interrupt our thinking, and that interrupts the quality of everything we do. By making this promise to our colleagues and loved ones we can deepen our relationships, increase our productivity, and enjoy deeper, richer conversations. It may, in fact, be the most important promise we ever make. Nancy has spent the last three decades researching independent thought and the barriers that prevent us from thinking for ourselves. In this book she tells us the truth about the damage that interruption can cause, she shares case studies and stories from her work with clients, as well as simple ways we can improve our communication, and change our lives. ___________________________________________________________________________________''This generous, useful and important book is a delight to read and will fundamentally change the way you interact with people'' - Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler, authors of The Communication Book ''This timely and persuasive book shows us that the foundation for independent thinking is the promise to actually listen, without interruption, to what others have to say'' Cal Newport, bestselling author of Digital Minimalism