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Author Matt LeMay explains agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of agile across industries and functions.

The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress. Workplace cultures have become cursed with efficiency. And so when it comes to developing strategy, we default to our defaults. We favor quick fixes, easy templates, and familiar approaches, developing 'robust plans' that do little to mitigate strategic risk or generate new value. The result? The future comes, and businesses die.

Need to design training in a flash? This step-by-step guide to designing training will help you on your way in record time!

Popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, author of the best-selling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, offers a wealth of advice for the specific challenges creative women face today: thinking too small, underestimating the need for change, fearing the future, and lacking self-confidence. McMeekin combines interviews with some of today’s most successful women and her own proven success strategies to help readers transcend their “blocks” and achieve success.

Last year, US companies spent over $165 billon on training; while many training programs themselves provide valuable skills and concepts, even the best-designed programs are ineffective because the learned behaviors are not reinforced. Without reinforcement, learned information gets shuffled to the back of the mind in the "nice to know" file, never again to see the light of day. This book bridges the canyon between learning and doing by providing solid reinforcement strategies.

Act Like a Rapper, Think Like an Executive" by Emmanuel OverTyme Simms is a compelling guide designed for artists navigating the intricacies of the music industry, particularly within the rap and hip-hop genres. This book bridges the gap between the raw passion of creating music and the strategic thinking required to thrive in the business side of the industry. Drawing from Emmanuel OverTyme Simms' extensive experience, the book offers a unique blend of personal anecdotes, practical advice, and strategic insights.

What is the best way for a company to innovate? That's exactly the wrong question. The better question: How can organizations get the maximum possible value from their innovation investments? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. But this audiobook addresses the innovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits. They want fast, frugal, and high-impact innovations.

Design to Engage is a “how-to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events. Practical, accessible, and jam-packed with tools to support facilitators to create impactful learning experiences, Design to Engage is a revelation and an inspiration.

One of the biggest challenges for managers today is recruiting and maintaining quality employees. Authoritative managerial styles don’t work anymore. Today’s employees aren’t interested in blindly taking orders from the top and working dead-end jobs.

In this revealing business advice book, the magic of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market proves a dynamic example of what a group of people can create when they are aligned and living a powerful vision. Here for the first time, owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business into a workplace that is renowned worldwide.

In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than 200 CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared in his regular "Corner Office" feature in The New York Times, Bryant has identified the biggest drivers of corporate culture, bringing them to life with real-world examples that reflect this hard-earned wisdom.

Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has - and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results.

> Enterprise Value walks you step-by-step through the most important challenge of your career. Peter Worrell, the CEO of Bigelow LLC, a renowned private business M&A advisory firm, has spent the last 30 years helping owner-managers make the right decisions for their futures. In this one-of-a-kind guide, he helps you overcome every challenge and make the wisest decisions about selling your company, while ensuring a positive and generative legacy.

Much of our life is spent working. If we practice a more joyful way of doing our work, we instantly start to improve our quality of life. This book aims to inspire and guide you into this new practice. In this 2nd edition of the book, there are 9 new chapters: 1. Do Your Work from an Inner Spark of Joy 5. Define Your Daily Success 7. The Energy Reboot (new version) 8. Be Strict about Showing Up, Lenient about the Results 11. Sleep Tips — Falling and Staying Asleep 13. When You’re Feeling “Not Ready” to Put Your Work Out There… 14. Get Unstuck by Asking Smaller Questions 16. ...

If you’re looking to start your own business online without breaking the bank and using up all your saving, dropshipping is the right online business for you!

Are you tired of overcomplicating your business ideas? Profit Launch is your fast track to creating and selling a high-ticket offer in just 72 hours—no massive budgets, endless funnels, or guesswork required. Written by Emma Carter, a business strategist who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs turn ideas into income, this book reveals a step-by-step framework to craft irresistible offers, connect with the right audience, and close deals without feeling "salesy." Here’s what you’ll learn inside: The Secret to High-Ticket Success: Discover why people pay premium prices and how to ...

Today, the economic environment is global, highly sophisticated, and in continuous flux. Thus, the challenge for business leaders is to stay ahead of market flow and change, in order to gain competitive advantage. Creating Competitive Advantage explores why this pioneering can be the safest and best course for organizations to get ahead and guides leaders on how to forecast trends without increasing risk. It introduces the new concepts of market flow visualization and the line of probability, pioneering the safe course, and analytically supported intuition.

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation are changing-and if you want your firm to survive, you'd better pay attention. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. No longer will innovations travel the globe in only one direction, from developed to developing nations. They will also flow in reverse.

Are you ready to build an indestructible team that can conquer the challenges of workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion? You might be thinking, "Diversity and inclusion are just buzzwords, companies don't actually take them seriously, right?" While it's true that some companies may use these terms without taking action, many companies are actively working to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace.