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If your business is not earning profits you will soon be out of business. In The Profit Machine, author Larry Earnhart shows you what it takes to turn your business into a profit making machine. Find out how to put Profit as the goal of your business driving all other aspects of your operation. Learn how to transform your business into the business you always dreamed it could be.

In The Scrum Master Files, trusted coach and certified scrum trainer Angela Johnson takes you through her journey from project manager to scrum master. She helps you learn through her own failures what it means to coach developers, product owners, and organizations in changing the way they work with scrum. The case studies in this book put you in the scrum master role and help you see what went wrong and how to make things right using real-world scenarios. The secrets shared in this book are not exclusive to scrum masters!

A PMO creates value when, and only when, it enables educated, fact-based decisions regarding resource allocation across projects, programs, and portfolios. If, subsequent to one year of inception, the PMO cannot provide an up-to-date, accurate view of resource allocation, then it has failed in the single most important role that a PMO has in the organization.

A trio of McKinsey & Company veterans draws from a unique combination of psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness practices plus a combined 50-plus years of international board room experience to offer a unique approach to learning and leading with awareness and intentional choice, even amidst the most challenging circumstances.

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us. This makes picking the next generation of leaders that much harder. We want them to have the leadership skills that we know that they need, but how can we make sure that they have them? Some IT managers revert to using the time-tested trial-by-fire approach, but is this really the best way?

You or your company can be screwed if you are hiring consultants without a plan to manage their bid for the sale, statement of work, and overall engagement. Learn from a seasoned risk and compliance, fraud examiner, and process improvement consultant who has worked for over 12 years in three of the "Big Four" consultancies on how you and your company can mitigate corporate risk when bringing in paid advisors.

Never Say Sell explains how to scale individual engagements into long-term business relationships. Cowritten by Tom McMakin, the coauthor of How Clients Buy and expert in account development, and colleague Jacob Parks, this book provides insights into how key rainmakers at firms like Accenture and IBM drive growth from existing relationships. Never Say Sell is a business development guide for professional service providers like consultants, accountants, and lawyers, whether they are sole proprietors or members of account teams tasked with expanding key accounts.

When Martin Kihn joined a powerhouse New York consulting firm, he thought his job was to help organizations. In reality, the consultants spent precious work hours prowling for new clients, and offered little or no useful information. From power breakfasts with mind games to the screaming indignity of “Feedback Camp” in New Jersey, House of Lies reveals the truth about a “profession” that could threaten your job, your career, and your life...and even throws you some lifelines should the suits start circling your company.

When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to best-selling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own original path to success. In Million Dollar Maverick, he explains that entrepreneurs don't take advice; they create value and then monetize it. They do what they love and are great at and find a way to sell it to people.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

This book, based on two rigorous doctoral theses, is an essential guide for business leaders, company owners, and consultants seeking to take their organizations to the next level. Through a practical approach supported by real-world experience, the author reveals the two key models used in his consulting and coaching interventions, providing effective tools to transform leadership and organizational culture.

Proven professional advice for the Agile Scrum: The Agile Product Owner Updated and Advanced Edition Launching Agile and SCRUM - the product owner as a change agent Trust as a key differentiator in project and portfolio success

In How to Manage in Times of Crisis, you will learn how to prepare for inevitable approaching challenges in life and business and how to navigate them with the best results. Released as a written version of his presentation to the Russian Academy of Economics in 2009 (just after the 2008 financial crisis), where Dr. Adizes is an honorary scientific advisor and recipient of an honorary doctorate, this audiobook version of Dr. Adizes' speech gives us hope, and an appropriate strategy, to prepare and rebuild.

Die Magie der Veränderung erkennen und erfolgreich meistern. Die richtigen Mitarbeiter finden und High Performance Teams entwickeln. Die Bedürfnisse des Kunden fokussieren: Der Kunde ist der neue Experte. Praktische und aktuelle Tools für mehr Erfolg im Business umsetzen. Handlungsheld sein: Machen statt Meckern!

Unsicherheit und unvollständige Information spielen bei Entscheidungen immer eine Rolle. Pokerkonzepte für Entscheider: Tight Aggressive als Investitionsgrundlage; Poker und Business sind unendliche Spiele: es geht nicht ums Gewinnen; Valuebet oder Bluff: wann macht eine Investition Sinn? Resultate beschreiben nur die Vergangenheit, Entscheidungen prägen die Zukunft.

Lernen Sie mit diesem Hörbuch, wie Sie im digitalen Zeitalter Ihre Neukundengewinnung vorantreiben! Im Rahmen der Digitalisierung ist es nicht leicht, Neukunden durch bisher bekannte Akquise-Strategien zu gewinnen. Der Vertrieb via Telefon ist heutzutage zwar nicht unmöglich, es handelt sich jedoch auch nicht um einen der beliebtesten Vertriebskanäle. Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen daher, wie Sie mittels digitaler Neukundengewinnung Ihre Zielgruppe erweitern.

Der klassische Berufsverkäufer ist ein Fall fürs Museum. Heute verkaufen immer mehr Nicht-Verkäufer direkt und selbst - ein Produkt, eine Dienstleistung, das eigene Image. Sie alle wollen gute Geschäfte machen. Aber wie geht das? Ganz anders als Sie denken, sagt Stephan Heinrich. Menschen wollen nicht überzeugt werden, sie wollen auf Augenhöhe verhandeln. Deshalb zeigt er in diesem Buch nicht, wie Sie Interesse erzeugen, sondern wie Sie vorhandenes Interesse wecken.

Gemeinsam zum Erfolg: Wer clever netzwerken möchte, muss mehr tun, als nur seine Kreditkarte zu verteilen. In diesem Sales-up-Call erfahren Sie, worauf es beim professionellen Netzwerken wirklich ankommt und wie Sie qualitativ hochwertige Geschäftskontakte finden, die Sie langfristig weiterbringen.

Do you feel out of your depth when setting objectives for your team? Ah, the annual ritual of objective-setting! Loved by so few, undertaken by so many. Do you get a slight knot in the pit of your stomach, just thinking about it? Most managers dread it because they're not 100 percent sure of what they're supposed to do. Promoted with little training, they're just supposed to know how to design objectives. Know how to develop soft skills. Sure it's easy, right? On top of that, there’s the niggling feeling that the process doesn’t make much of a difference.

This book takes leaders on a journey through the big ideas of leadership. This book is a professional development tool for leaders at any stage of their career. Leaders do not just play a role - they create a better future. Great leaders have learned the value of influence rather than control as a leadership model.