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Building an awesome team culture
Author Brian W. Fitzpatrick , Ben Collins-Sussman
In this lesson we’ll talk about culture, with a strong focus on various communication techniques that contribute to success. We’ll identify how these techniques can be used to create any product more efficiently with a team of humans. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Chris Vander Mey
Unfortunately, making decisions is not as simple as you saying “yes” or “no” to your team. Unlike most other compilations of English words, the complexity of software mandates that it is the creation of a group, and therefore it is a reflection of the decisions tha....
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People management: Getting started
Author Alexander Grosse , David Loftesness
An explicit focus on people management is vital to company success, particularly at fast-growing companies. With proper training and a healthy culture, people managers can help teams scale by maintaining morale, ensuring alignment between work assignments and compa....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Renee Broadwell , Ken Blanchard
Servant Leadership in ActionHow You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results We've seen the negative impact of self-serving leaders in every sector of our society. Not infrequently, they end up bringing down their entire organization. But there is another ....
Release Date 2018/03 -
The Serious Business of Small Talk
Author Carol Fleming
The Serious Business of Small TalkBecoming Fluent, Comfortable, and Charming You walk into a room full of strangers and you immediately freeze—wait, no you don't. Instead, you start some light, easy banter with the group of people closest to you. Then you mov....
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Author Evan Bulmer
CEOs and business owners face an ever increasingly complex world in which they do business. They are making decisions from accessing viable markets to sell their products and services to attracting and retaining staff all whilst making sure the bills can be paid on....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Christian Muntean
Conflict is one of the greatest sources of tolerated business expenses and loss. This is despite the fact that this expense and loss can, in most cases, be easily turned around to revenue and gain. In the nonprofit world one of the greatest inhibitors of mission su....
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Conscious Capitalism Field Guide
Author Thomas Eckschmidt , Timothy Henry , Raj Sisodia
Build conscious leadership into your business.You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide--....
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Author Jacqueline Carter , Rasmus Hougaard
Join the global movement that's making corporations more people-centric to achieve great results.The world is facing a global leadership crisis. Seventy-seven percent of leaders think they do a good job of engaging their people, yet 88 percent of employees say the....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume II
Author Yuqin Zhang , Abdol S. Soofi
This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A’s are very similar in many respects e....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume I
Author Yuqin Zhang , Abdol S. Soofi
This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A’s are very similar in many respects e....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Practical Performance Improvement
Author Rod Matthews
Anyone who is responsible for the supervision and performance of a team in an organization will appreciate the practical management strategies outlined in this book. In a refreshing, humorous, and engaging approach, it aims to reduce the stress associated with....
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Start a Successful Business (Inc.)
Author Colleen DeBaise
Let Inc. help launch your dreams.Makers, doers, and dreamers — for decades they have turned to Inc. for help in getting their businesses off the ground. The publication’s keen advice clarifies the process, while startup stories fuel aspirations and spark action.War....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Ian Horley , Peter Zink Secher
The formula that transforms the probability of success when growing your business with M&AThe M&A Formula brings together decades of research and case studies from recognised leaders into a model that anybody can use to grow their business using M&A, no....
Release Date 2018/02 -
The Demographics of Innovation
Author James Liang
As the population ages, which nation will rise to lead innovation in the future?Demographics of Innovation takes a deep, investigative look at the link between economic growth, innovation, vitality and entrepreneurship in an aging population, and provides smart str....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Lita Epstein , Greg Schnell
The easy way to get started in stock chartsMany trading and technical analysis books focus on how to use charts to make stock trading decisions, but what about how to actually build a chart? Stock Charts For Dummies reveals the important stories charts tell, and ho....
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The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics
Author Alexei Marcoux , Byron Kaldis , Eugene Heath
The field of business ethics continues to expand intellectually and geographically. During the past five decades, scholars have developed and deepened their inquiries into the ethics of commercial and corporate conduct. This Companion provides a novel overview of t....
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Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation
Author Tim Rayner
Fifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the company’s innovation pipeline. Innovation was a carefully planned process, driven from above and tied to key strategic goals.Nowadays....
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Continuous Improvement Strategies
Author Anthony Matthew Hopper
During this era of continuous improvement, healthcare organizations need to be staffed by engaged, motivated, and hard-working frontline employees. As these clinical and non-clinical personnel handle most of the important tasks in any organization and are often the....
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Author April Wells
Information technologists are increasingly being made part of global teams, and are confronting the challenges of communicating across a variety of linguistic and cultural boundaries. This book helps you know what to say, what not to say, and even where to sit in m....
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How a Multi-Cloud Strategy Enables Digital Transformation
Author Maliha Balala
Having spent an estimated $1.2 trillion in 2017 alone, industries today are investing heavily in digital transformation technologies. Cloud providers are a key part of the investment, but many companies are finding that no single provider can meet the specific need....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Camille Fournier
In this chapter from The Manager's Path, you'll learn the biggest trick of being a good tech lead: the willingness to step away from the code and figure out how to balance your technical commitments with the work the whole team needs. From mentoring interns to wo....
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Collaboration: Individuals working together
Author Ryn Daniels , Jennifer Davis
A large part of what makes a DevOps initiative successful is getting people to work together more effectively than they did previously. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build communicative relationships, shared goals and empathy for a more effective, collaborati....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Shelly L. Francis , The Renewal Renewal
The Courage WayLeading and Living with IntegrityLeadership can be exhausting, lonely, frustrating, disappointing, and downright discouraging. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks. You need to keep y....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Tony Page , Philip Goodwin
This informative and inspirational handbook describes how to successfully lead mergers and change in complex organizations. Drawing on a real-life experience, the authors share their insights on how leaders can deliver sustainable change by growing the capacity of ....
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Developing Successful Strategic Partnerships with Universities
Author Max Riedel , Lars Frølund , Fiona Murray
Collaborations between companies and universities are critical drivers of the innovation economy. These relationships have long been a mainstay of corporate R&D — from creating the knowledge foundations for the next generation of solutions, to serving as an e....
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Improving Your Digital Intelligence
Author Nicolas van Zeebroeck , Bryce Hall , Tanguy Catlin , Jacques Bughin
A study of 250 global companies found that a company’s digital intelligence is informed by four dimensions: strategy, culture, organization, and capabilities. Within these dimensions, the research identified 18 management practices that contribute the most to....
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Author James Yoder , Charles Sull , Stefano Turconi , Donald N. Sull
Businesses develop strategies to address complex, multi-layered business environments and challenges — but to execute a strategy in a meaningful way, it must produce a set of specific priorities focused on achieving clear goals. Rather than trying to boil the....
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Winning with Open Process Innovation
Author Martin Wörter , Georg Von Krogh , Torbjørn Netland
Most research on open innovation has focused on the use of ideas and knowledge from outside the organization in the development of products and services. But openness can be useful for process innovation, too. The authors' research shows that manufacturers can ben....
Release Date 2018/01