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Seeking a healthy work/life balance? Don't let porcupine-like people cause major problems in your career or life. Learn what to do when the boss is wrong. Know when to leave a difficult workplace. Become an expert at dealing with difficult, prickly people. Working with Porcupines gives you 24 hard-won lessons-learned and hundreds of practical tips on working with every type of person and being an outstanding leader and manager!

In this book, Accredited Public Relations Professional Mary Ellen Miller shares her communications leadership journey on a $400-million dam project. This book is for PR professionals and project managers involved in issue management and stakeholder engagement on major infrastructure projects.

Successfully Managing Troubled Projects is a must-have resource for project managers, team leaders, and anyone involved in managing projects in dynamic and demanding environments. This book will empower you to overcome project hurdles, maximize efficiency, and deliver successful results. Whether you are a seasoned project professional or a novice in the field, this book will be your trusted companion in navigating the challenges of troubled projects.

The Strategy Implementation Gap is a guide for executives on how to have a sustainable approach to the right people doing the right things in the right way to achieve the right results.

In A Symphony of Choices, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard delivers a fascinating narrative following one Jerry Hall, the new Symphony Orchestra manager at a prestigious symphony concerned about the challenging plans for an upcoming season. In the book, you'll watch Jerry connect with a former college professor and learn the skills necessary to successfully manage his way through these unprecedented times in his business and personal life.

In Next Level Nonprofit, Dr. Chris Lambert expertly guides nonprofit leaders, founders, and managers through the proven steps to build team unity, communicate a compelling vision, establish the right strategy, and grow through disciplined execution. He shares not only theoretical, but also experiential wisdom gained in the trenches as he founded, and now leads an award-winning Detroit-based nonprofit. Both his time-tested methods and his upbeat posture instill confidence that you can also build a dream team and increase lasting impact.

¿Cuántas veces has fracasado en algo y has sentido una profunda vergüenza? ¿Eres de los que cree que es mejor aprender de los errores ajenos y no de los tuyos? Soy Riccardo Braccaioli, y me gustaría contarte mi experiencia más dura como empresario, la quiebra de mi empresa familiar. El fracaso de los sueños, de las ambiciones, del trabajo de una vida y de mi familia. Quince años de montaña rusa donde hubo éxitos y derrotas.

The Millionaire Project Manager focuses on the road map to financial success and career growth as a project manager. This audiobook is for individuals looking to become project managers and working project managers looking to advance their career and income.

I am sure you will get value from this because it gives you a complete introduction to agile scrum daily stand-ups and walks you step by step through carrying out and improving daily stand-ups in your team or business from the ground up. It also gives you plenty of examples. It tells you exactly how the pros carry out the daily scrum and guides you through some common best practices based on extensive research.

This audiobook offers valuable finance concepts to IT Managers and Project Managers so that they can carry out cost benefit analysis, develop a business case to justify ROI of a project, secure funding, and execute the project. NPV, IRR, Payback Period, ROI, TCO, Capital vs. Operating Expense, Depreciation & Amortization, Outsourcing & Offshoring, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Business Case are presented in detail.

Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task—from engaging with stakeholders and scoping out the full specification of the project, through to keeping a rein on costs and sticking to schedules. Manage Projects Successfully offers calm and practical advice to help you with setting priorities, communicating with others, monitoring progress and dealing with unexpected events.

This book, Scrum Leadership: 5 Levels of Leadership for Agile Success, was written with the aim of providing Scrum Masters with the guidance and tools they need to lead their teams to greatness. The book is based on my experiences, insights, and learnings as an Agile coach and trainer, and it provides practical advice and techniques for leading teams effectively. The five levels of leadership outlined in this book are designed to help Scrum Masters understand the cycle of life within the Scrum team and the importance of developing great leadership skills day by day.

In this book, we delve into the core principles of Agile and unravel the true meaning behind the Agile mindset. We follow Billy as he encounters various challenges, misconceptions, and eye-opening experiences that challenge his preconceived notions about Agile.

This book is filled with adventurous stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat while learning about risk management. Follow Jack and his friends as they embark on thrilling journeys, from exploring dangerous caves to surviving a plane crash in the wilderness. Through the adventures of Jack and his friends, you will learn about risk identification, assessment, and response planning. Each chapter ends with a few quick questions about standard risk management practices, allowing you to test your knowledge and deepen your understanding of the concepts covered in the book.

Executive Efficiency: Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals goes beyond just the basics of time management. In addition to covering traditional time management techniques such as the Eisenhower Matrix and the Pomodoro Technique, the book also offers insights into delegating effectively, reducing anxiety through Kanban boards, and more.

Projekte effizienter, schneller und kontrollierbarer abschließen. Modernes Projektmanagement bedeutet agiles Projektmanagement! Egal ob Sie als Anfänger Ihr erstes Projekt betreuen oder schon Fortgeschrittener in diesem Bereich sind - begeistern Sie Ihre Vorgesetzten, Mitarbeiter und vor allem Ihre Kunden mit den exklusiven Management-Modellen aus diesem Ratgeber und werden Sie sofort zum Top-Leader! Entdecken Sie die agile Methode SCRUM und profitieren Sie von den enormen Vorteilen für Ihr Unternehmen und Ihren persönlichen Erfolg.

Do you want to become a better project manager? What skills can you improve to do your job more efficiently? How can you implement an agile methodology to improve your team’s productivity? What mistakes should you avoid while managing your team or a project? Do you want to discover the answers to these questions? If yes, this is the perfect book for you! You need better and newer project management methodologies to ensure this doesn’t happen. One such management methodology is Agile.

Management is understood in different ways by different people. Economists regard it as a factor of production. Sociologists see it was a class or group of persons, while practitioners of management treat it as a process. For our understanding, management may be viewed as what a manager does in a formal organization to achieve objectives. It is called by Mary Parker Follet "the art of getting things done through people”. This definition throws light on the fact that managers achieve organizational goals by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves.

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.

仮説が湧けば、あらゆる仕事が秒で終わる。「エンジニア×戦略コンサル×ビジネスプロデューサー」という異質のキャリアから生まれた思考法