If you're a busy professional who wants - and needs - to give compelling presentations and pitches, this is the book for you.In this book you will find a clear, simple, and reliable structure which will ensure you can engage your audience, build rapport and get your message heard and acted on.Lee Warren reveals the tricks and tools of professional performers so you too can become a confident, assured presenter. You'll understand how to prepare for a presentation, how to deliver team presentations, how to deal with questions, why you should always have a punchline at the end of your presentation, and how to work with colleagues and clients to stand out from the competition.Once you've read this book, you'll be able to create and deliver a brilliant presentation quickly and easily, and know how to:• Quickly create compelling presentations• Conquer your nerves and engage your audience• Present more often and with more confidence• Increase your profile and credibility• Avoid 'Death by PowerPoint'
Game Plans for Success is a journey into the minds of ten top current and former NFL head coaches. These ten great coaches reveal their management philosophies and strategies, showing how what happens on the sidelines and in the locker room parallels what goes on in offices and boardrooms. Their finely tuned business skills and management techniques are transferable to every industry and profession - powerful tools that can be put to immediate use by anyone, sports fan or not. Game Plans for Success includes the insights of NFL head coaches Tom Coughlin, Mike Ditka, Joe Gibbs, Bud Grant, Dennis Green, Chuck Noll, George Seifert, Marty Schottenheimer, Norv Turner, and Bill Walsh. Among them, the group has eighteen Super Bowl appearances and thirteen Super Bowl victories. Four of the featured coaches - Ditka, Grant, Noll, and Walsh - are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Many Voices One Song is a detailed manual for implementing sociocracy, an egalitarian form of governance also known as dynamic governance. Sociocracy means governance by those who associate together. This book is based on the Sociocratic Circle-Organization Method (SCM) developed in the Netherlands by electrical engineer Gerard Endenburg, based on earlier work of educator Kees Boeke. Many Voices One Song includes step-by-step descriptions for structuring organizations, making decisions, and generating feedback. The content is illustrated by many diagrams, tables, examples, lists, skits, and stories from the field. The book includes a glossary and index, and an appendix summarizing processes in easily reproducible form. The book covers four major areas: Sociocratic organizational structures based on linked teams (circles) that distribute authority from the top of organizations to the most frontline teams that are appropriate. These teams are linked by both top-down leaders and bottom-up delegates to ensure that influence and power are shared in a circular rather than linear hierarchy. Organizational diagrams illustrate different ways to structure organizations in an egalitarian way. Decision making by consent, defined as no one having an objection to a proposed decision. Consent is a participatory and inclusive approach to decision making, in contrast to win-lose voting and most forms of consensus. Decision-making steps (understand-explore-decide) detailed include proposal generation and the proposal to consent decision-making process. The book also outlines the steps for selection of people to roles in open dialog processes. The insights of compassionate communication (Nonviolent Communication/NVC) are integrated into the context of decision making. Meeting format and design, including facilitation skills and processes that ensure that all voices matter in decision making.Feedback processes for evaluating the effectiveness of meetings, policies, workflows, and role performance support an ongoing learning cycle and continuous improvement, not just in production and delivery but in the embodiment of equality itself. The intent of this book is to contribute to the spread of sociocracy by making information available. Egalitarian self-governance needs to be simple enough so everyone can share power in a healthy way.
Projects fail. Some say 40%% of all IT projects fail, some say 70%%. And it has been that way for years. Each project fails for its own reasons but they all share one thing in common: the Project Model. Could it be the project model itself which creates failure? In this tour de force Allan Kelly explains why the project model is a poor fit for managing software development. Working from industry recognized definitions of projects he describes how the model deviates from reality then goes on to discuss: - Why focusing on time, scope, and cost damages software, creates goal displacement and reduces quality. - How projects miss the bigger picture. - Why maximizing value demands work across projects. - When debt is good and how projects increase technical debt to the detriment of value delivery. Projects end. Successful software continues. Twenty-first century digital businesses want to continue and grow.
Magento is an open source, enterprise-level ecommerce platform with an unlimited ability for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for merchants, but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more flexible and ...
You can learn trading penny stocks from the masses and become part of the 90% of traders who lose money in the stock market, or you can learn from the Best. The Complete Penny Stock Course is based on Timothy Sykes', various training programs. His strategies have helped individuals like Tim Grittani, Michael Goode and Stephen Dux become millionaires within a couple of years.This course aims to teach you how to become a consistently profitable trader, by taking Tim's profit-making strategies with penny stocks and presenting them in a well-structured learning format. You'll start by getting acquainted with the concepts of market and trading psychology. Then you'll get into the basics of day trading, how to manage your risk and the tools that will help you become profitable. Along the way, you'll learn strategies and techniques to become consistent in your gains and develop your own trading techniques.What's inside Managing expectations and understanding the market Understanding the psychology of trading and how it affects you Learning the basics of day trading Learning the mechanics of trading penny stocks Risk management and how to take safe positions How to trade through advanced techniques Developing your own profitable trading strategy Real world examples and case studies No prior trading experience is required.
Leading from the Roots is a primer for using what occurs in nature organically to move an organization and its leadership to the next level.
"Defining Moments is a deeply honest, personal and at times moving account of one man's voyage of self-discovery. Through a series of "defining moments", Kees shows how personal crises and professional challenges can not only be overcome but can also be used to help give greater purpose and meaning to life - to help make the individual stronger, the family more cohesive and the organization more united." Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever
In his first COMIC BOOK, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business; through LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265 million), Zappos (acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion in stock), and more.
This textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students offers comprehensive coverage, an algorithmic perspective, and a wealth of examples in exploratory data analysis, pattern mining, clustering, and classification. New to this second edition are several chapters on regression, including neural networks and deep learning.
This introduction to the field of cultural anthropology from a Christian perspective exposes students to the excitement and significance of human history and culture.
This book introduces the Sociocracy 3.0 framework as a practical guide in creating agile and meaningful organisations.
Management book with a philosophical basis: how personal drama can lead to a radical approach on life and work
Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a "good" service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a "good" and "bad" service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don''t.A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designing services that work for users.
In this entrepreneurial age, it's very tempting to leave your job to start your own business. Before you do, learn all you can from the best. This book is just that. World renowned bestselling author and business consultant Brian Tracy tells you about one of today's most needed skill sets, entrepreneurship, covering these important topics:MYTHS of entrepreneurshipBEST business choice for youFINANCING the businessSHIFTING from employee mindset to entrepreneurial mindsetCREATING a realistic business planHIRING the best and managing for successFUELING your business growth with sales and marketingThis book is designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Let Brian Tracy teach you the science of entrepreneurship, tested and proven not just for years, but for millennia. If you simply study the ideas in this book, and apply them, you too, can become a successful entrepreneur.KIRKUS REVIEWA hard-line path to successful entrepreneurship for beginners...Aspiring entrepreneurs will benefit from Tracy's straightforward strategies.
The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself.This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics that drive behaviors within the high-tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, and the sector it represents.
Learn how to adopt ten easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective, to keep up with the demands of the customer of the future.
A pragmatic vision of how democratic socialism can overcome the economic, workplace, political, environmental, social, and international crises that we face today.
The classic for managers seeking to hone their leadership skills into a C-Suite position Updated with copious new research conducted over the past ten years, this landmark work provides everything you need to transform yourself from an effective manager to an extraordinary leader. In addition to the time-proven methods and approaches that has made The New Extraordinary Leader one of the most popular leadership books around, this third edition includes.Updated insights on how to demystify leadership.More data on how extraordinary leadership directly benefits employee engagement, customer satisfaction, retention, innovation, and profitability.A brand-new, simplified definition of leadership strengths .Critical research on the importance of developing leadership teams .Three all new chapters that cover: Leadership competencies and how they interplay with each other, The role of cross training in leadership development, and The leader's role in his or her own development
The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. Even Adam Smith, who famously celebrated markets, believed that there were moral costs associated with life in market societies.
The revised new edition of the must-read guide for executives--provides comprehensive coverage of topics in corporate governance by leading subject-matter expertsThe Handbook of Board Governance is the marketing-leading text on public, nonprofit, and private board governance. Providing comprehensive, in-depth coverage, this unique text represents a collaboration of internationally-recognized academics and prominent organization directors, executives, managers, and advisors. Contributors include Holly Gregory, Nell Minow, Robert Monks, Mark Nadler, Michael Useem and Ralph Ward. Practical, expert guidance enables readers to understand value creation and the strategic role of the board, risk governance and oversight, audit and compensation committee effectiveness, CEO succession planning, and other diverse board duties and responsibilities.Now in its second edition, the Handbook offers substantial updates and revisions reflecting contemporary trends, practices, and developments in board governance. New content includes discussions of pressing issues related to climate change, examination of information technology and cybersecurity challenges, and recent tax legislation that will impact executive compensation. Editor Dr. Richard Leblanc--an award-winning teacher, professor, lawyer, management consultant, and specialist on boards of directors--integrates practical experience and academic rigor to assist readers:* Build and strengthen engaged and collaborative leadership in the boardroom* Recognize the role and responsibilities of a well-functioning governing board* Risk governance, assurance, and the duties of directors* Keep pace with new trends in board governance and shareholder responsibility* Measure performance and align performance measurement to executive pay* Understand information technology governance, sustainability governance, and the different forms of governanceHighly relevant to board and committee members regardless of sector or industry, The Handbook of Board Governance, 2nd Edition is an invaluable source of knowledge on all aspects of corporate and organization governance.
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