Product Management Leadership

Production is a lively cultural process with its own rules and structures. In order to understand production correctly, it must be learned and experienced. Not in the lecture hall - but on the shop floor! Like every other discipline, production, too, is a field of enterprise with its own rules and structures comparable with a kitchen. A top cook learns the hard craft over several years, despite the fact that the taste is not of the same quality for every cook. And that is how it is, too, with production.

Some businesses have reduced staff and made resource cuts to survive the global economic downturn, while others have improved business practices and culture. Unfortunately, there is still a difference between successful and less successful businesses in terms of culture adaptability, people management, and process management. In organisations like Toyota, which, in contrast to its rivals, has a mindset of process improvement, culture drives competitive advantage. Other businesses might benefit from Toyota's teachings by changing their routines for behaving and thinking in order to increase ...

This audiobook will show you how to become the leader you deserve to be. You’ll learn the language of leadership by using 11 terms that will help guide you. Once you learn these languages, you’ll be ready to command. You’ll be prepared to be the leader you’ve always wanted to be, but even better, because you will connect with people, respect people, and earn their respect as well.

Twenty-two of the world’s most unstoppable women united to share how to be fierce, fearless, and unf*ckwithable in life and business no matter where you are on your path to bliss. This audiobook is filled with heartfelt stories of wisdom, inspiration, and tools to assist you in moving through whatever keeps you stuck in fear and prevents you from living your dream life.

I am writing this book to help Christian leaders in the workplace. I want to share how I applied foundational management principles that I found in the Bible to bring me success in the workplace. This journal is intended to be a tool to serve you as a Christian leader to help you grow in wisdom and grow in your ability to use the scriptures and the leading of the Holy Spirit to guide you to success in whatever leadership position in which you find yourself.

Ciertos errores pueden llevar a la ruina a empresas y propietarios, y hacer daño a la sociedad en general. También los fallos forman parte de la historia de los negocios. Y es buena idea que los directores conozcan esa historia, de modo de no repetirla. Dividido en cinco apartados (errores y omisiones en el área de dirección general y estrategia, de finanzas y administración, en el área comercial, en el área de factor humano, en el área de operaciones), este libro claro, ameno y cercano presenta una serie de errores comunes pero que se pueden evitar, recogidos por Luis Castañeda, experto en rehabilitar empresas.

Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir of her 20-plus years at the helm and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world. Perloff's personal and professional journey - her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change.

Product failures are never something that a product manager wants to talk about. We all live with the secret dread that someday the product that we are responsible for might turn out to be a failure. It turns out that we're all missing an important learning opportunity. Products do fail, and they end up failing for a wide range of reasons. Every product failure is loaded with fantastic learning opportunities for product managers. We just need to take the time and open our eyes to see what we can learn from each failure.

Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

In "Dark Psychology and Gaslighting Manipulation for the Corporate World," Dr. James Jordan leads you into the shadowy worlds of psychological manipulation and devious strategies that exist within the contemporary business environment. This ground-breaking book reveals the techniques for manipulating emotions that aspirational people use to go up the corporate ladder, get control, and hold onto their authority.

Interim management has grown in several developed countries into an established and acknowledged tool to cover different topics in an organization. The applicability of an interim manager is multifaceted and tricky as well, as in everyday situations it can represent an excellent alternative to internal resources, especially when topics that cannot be found in the portfolio of the core competencies of the undertaking have to be dealt with.

Fire the Landscaper is a biting critique of current landscape design and maintenance practices. The audiobook explores the health risks, cultural biases, origins, and the insults to Mother Nature caused by our culturally backed, legally enforced obsession with artificial representations of nature.

This small but powerful book takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer to new product delys - helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenges the premises undermining your performance. Then, it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately.

Changing how we manage people is important for making any business plan work. In his great book Toyota Kata (2009), Mike Rother talks about how Toyota changes the way its employees act and think by forming new habits and culture. Using the word "kata" to explain how Toyota solves problems instead of using the pharase "problem solving." Toyota’s way helps create a better work environment by teaching people to become better leaders and make positive changes.

This book is for salespersons to get better at their trade. Joseph M. Clarke has been a successful salesman and has an exemplary record. He wants others to understand that the sales process involves an understanding of the customer.

In Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age, Paul Miller, CEO and founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), and Shimrit Janes, DWG's director of knowledge, draw on patterns from forests and the natural world to illustrate a dynamic, vital, and more beautiful world of work that our hearts and minds know is possible.

FUBU cofounder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success and financial security. J uses his inspirational story as the backdrop to explain why financial success is about discovering your Money Values and Money Temperament.

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

Introducing Guardrailing, a nontraditional method for creatively and authentically guiding your vision, team, and company from concept to successful exit. Author Michael Bush draws from his experience as a consultant, strategic planning expert, and former CEO of Ganeden, a prominent player in the probiotics industry, to share his simple strategy for aligning your business with the values and spirit of the wellness revolution— to help you reach your ultimate destination while fostering a new era of conscious leadership.

There's a leader inside all of us, yet often we can't see it. Instead, we settle for a quiet life on the sidelines. To become a leader who motivates, influences, and inspires others to succeed you need to find that inner leader. You need to develop a LEADERSHIP ATTITUDE.