Leadership Essentials

In the stormy seas of today's world economy, organizations need people to own their work, not just rent a spot on the organization chart. All Hands on Deck is a fun-to-listen-to story that is both a business strategy book about creating competitive advantage through corporate culture, and a personal development book that will inspire listeners to be more committed and engaged with their work and their organizations.

How do you blow up your company's growth? Start with high quality training. Follow that up with thoughtful coaching by managers who refuse to rescue and value learning experiences. Implementing this proven algorithm creates a thinking company that generates exponential growth. Author Jill Young shares her vast experience in helping entrepreneurs discover and celebrate the creation of thinkers in their company, identify gaps in their system, and close those gaps.

Knowing that entrepreneurs have no time to waste, Ramberg presents simple and effective guidance that can be put to use right away. This book will be indispensable for every small business owner, from a family-owned store to a venture capitalist-backed start up.

Today’s leaders often lack clarity and therefore the ability to execute, leaving their organizations mired in the status quo. Renowned leadership expert Mark Sanborn demystifies the essential elements of great leadership and provides a formula for leaders to achieve breakthrough success.

In The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Growth, renowned business adviser Stephen Dann sets out the methods, tools, and techniques to enable your business to develop, thrive, and grow so you can achieve your business and personal goals.

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required. The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious listening that would put even a CEO to sleep. From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, Negotiating 101 is an easy-to-understand road map of today's complex business world.

Hailed as America’s greatest civil rights advocate, Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired the people of the United States to demand equality, regardless of the color of their skin. And he did it peacefully. Time may have passed, but in today’s world, his teachings are needed more than ever. With Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wisdom and unwavering dedication to making the opposition listen, you can become a peaceful leader and advocate for the way the world should look, no matter who stands in your way.

Using the knowledge in this book, you will be able to create a systemized business that runs even when you're not there. This book is focused on the professional HMO market, but many of the tips can easily be applied to other sectors of the market such as LHA (local housing allowance) and student HMOs. The book is split into five sections: Find It, Fund It, Finish It, Fill It, and Future-Proof It. Each section contains tips large and small - some short and sweet and some that are more in-depth.

Zweifellos wird die Rolle des Managers immer anspruchsvoller und komplizierter, mit der Folge, dass viele Manager vor lauter Verpflichtungen den Überblick darüber verlieren, was wirklich wichtig ist. Dieser Band lässt Sie Abstand gewinnen, damit Sie sich aus der Perspektive des Gipfelbesteigers einen Überblick über Ihre Lage verschaffen können. Hier finden Sie die sieben essentiellen Gewohnheiten effektiver Manager. Sie finden Antworten auf die 25 schwierigsten Managementherausforderungen.

In Engineering Business Success, Herb Johnson shares what he has learned in his 28 years at the helm of the thriving company that he founded. And he shares what he has learned in life, since his boyhood rural upbringing, through his years as a young engineer, and as he has worked to make the most of his business.

Scrum is adaptive, efficient, agile, and simple. So, why are you struggling? Not all organizations that adopt the Scrum framework will have a smooth transition. Some may find themselves grappling with new concepts and new ways of doing things. The work process under Scrum is wildly different from the waterfall method, so even if Scrum is simple to understand, it can be difficult to master.

Did anyone ever tell you that you have greatness inside? The fact may have never crossed your mind, you may have refused to acknowledge it, or you may have grown up with others telling you just the opposite. So many people go through life unaware or unwilling to accept the realization that they can and will be great.

Contemporary organizations proliferate with projects. Managing projects, working with project managers, and delivering project excellence have become fundamental skills in the world of business, resulting in an array of approaches, tools, and techniques that can bewilder. This book homes in on the absolute essential elements of the field. With practical insights throughout, the audiobook provides listeners with a concise understanding of key concepts, techniques, and outcomes such as ownership, execution, success, quality, budgets, and risks.

Perhaps no subject about church generates more opinion and passion than worship. Walk with the typical church-going family on their way to the car after the service and just listen. Everybody really does talk about worship. Now, veteran worship leader and experienced ministry coach Mike Harland offers the tools worship leaders need to build biblically-faithful and effective worship ministries without bringing the disruption that often accompanies change.

Most plumbing and heating engineers are excellent on the tools, but with the running of the business, they fall short. If you read this book, I promise you will have an increase in your quote conversion rate; you will have a sound structure and system to produce quotations which will save hours in admin work; your customers will know exactly what you are going to deliver; over time, your turnover will increase if you implement the teachings of this book; and more.

The principles and practices for Scrum is a basic procedure for overseeing complex projects, which are clear and simple to learn. Be that as it may, Scrum's effortlessness absence of solution that can be incapacitating, and new experts frequently wind up returning to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. As a beginner, you notice that experienced techies use the terms Scrum and Agile conversely. Be that as it may, the two are extraordinary, and understanding the thing that matters is maybe the most ideal approach to start getting Scrum.

This book bundle aims to gather knowledge about various proven willpower and negotiation techniques and deliver it to you in a practical, easy to understand, and actionable manner. Use it like you would use an instruction manual, for simply listening to it is not doing justice to yourself. When you understand the sciences and art of willpower and negotiation, it is easier to use them to create a life of your dreams. The concept of willpower alone has grown leaps and bounds in the last few decades.

Determine how much of your organization’s operations are dependent on IT. Consider how much your organization relies on information technology to conduct business and make it a part of your culture to plan for contingencies in the event of a cyber incident. Identify and prioritize your organization’s critical assets and the associated impacts to operations if an incident were to occur.

If you want to achieve success in project management, then pay attention...Some projects were always bound to fail. However, that is just a tiny minority. Most projects fail at least partly because of poor project management. This audiobook aims to demystify project management and show you two different approaches that have a big following: Agile/Scrum, a very free form methodology that is good for services and software, and Lean Six Sigma, which is more data-driven and particularly useful for high-volume businesses from call centers to manufacturing.

Agile coaching remains a prominent career progression trend for many agile practitioners like scrum master and agile project managers who feel like they outgrew the shoes of their digital delivery roles. This audiobook is my attempt to summarize the learning and observations from inside the agile professional space, explaining in simple terms what an agile coach is really supposed to do and how they are different from agile delivery roles such as scrum master and, ultimately, how to properly transition into a coaching role.