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Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
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John P. Kotter · 208 pages
From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. The author's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process organizations have u
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · 256 pages
In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging th
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
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.
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord · 228 pages
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
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 Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Gene Kim · 443 pages
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
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
James C. Collins, Morten T. Hansen · 320 pages
The new question. Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for buildin
Project Management for Dummies
Nick Graham, Stanley Portny · 384 pages
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
David J. Anderson · 261 pages
"Kanban is becoming a popular way to visualize and limit work-in-progress in software development and information technology work. Teams around the world are adding Kanban around their existing processes to catalyze cultural change and deliver better business agility. David J. Anderson pioneered the Kanban Method. Hear how this happened and what you can do to succeed using Kanban."--Publisher's we
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
Donald G. Reinertsen
The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization
Peter M. Senge · 464 pages
An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations"--Corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Arch
Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Tom Peters · 568 pages
Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment.
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
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Patrick Lencioni · 240 pages
"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this boo
Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Chris Sims, Hillary Louise Johnson · 54 pages
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
James C. Collins · 222 pages
Discusses signs pointing toward the decline of a business, how far the decline can proceed before failure becomes inevitable, and crucial steps companies can take to reverse course.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Josh Kaufman · 424 pages
Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by s
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries · 328 pages
"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to crea