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The Lazy Project Manager: How to be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early
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Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch · 288 pages
The On-Time, On-Target Manager: How a "Last-Minute Manager" Conquered Procrastination
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Steve Gottry · 144 pages
Personal Kanban: Mapping Work - Navigating Life
Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry · 227 pages
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey · 384 pages
*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · 390 pages
Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Brad Kowitz · 288 pages
From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the rig
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler · 173 pages
"This updated edition of the international bestseller distills into a single volume fifty decision-making models used in MBA courses, and elsewhere, that will help you tackle important questions, such as: How do I make the right decision? How can I work more efficiently? And, on a more personal level, what do I want?" -- publisher's description.
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss · 308 pages
The New York Times bestselling how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success and replacing them with a whole new way of living Tim Ferriss has trouble defining what he does for a living. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:'I race motorcycles in Europe' 'I ski in the Andes' 'I scuba dive in Panama' 'I
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling · 352 pages
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres · 207 pages
"Extreme Programming (XP) was conceived and developed to address the specific needs of software development conducted by small teams in the face of vague and changing requirements. This new lightweight methodology challenges many conventional tenets, including the long-held assumption that the cost of changing a piece of software necessarily rises dramatically over the course of time. XP recogniz
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken Jr. · 137 pages
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Gene Kim · 443 pages
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker · 429 pages
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland · 284 pages
Introduction to agile methodology written by co-developer Jeff Sutherland.
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers
Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo · 266 pages
"This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. Gamestorming is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity w
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 256 pages
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-th
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project.
Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Chris Sims, Hillary Louise Johnson · 54 pages
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam · 288 pages
A bold new way to tackle tough business problems—even if you draw like a second graderWhen Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen · 274 pages
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our tho