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The Executive Coaching Guide is packed with real coaching scenarios, tips and tricks to help HR professionals prepare for their coaching sessions, and tons of examples of effective and powerful coaching questions to illustrate the different stages of the coaching models during a professional coaching engagement, The Executive Coaching Guide will help HR managers enhance their coaching skills while developing an effective leadership style that is all their own.

This book will prepare you for the IBQMI Certified Scrumban Practitioner®. You will learn how to bear organizational culture in mind and the advantages Scrumban offers compared to plain Scrum or Kanban. As a student, you will understand the importance of flow and transparency, and how additional practices from Kanban can be applied to an existing Scrum environment without changing Scrum. Earn an exclusive and protected job title. This book will prepare you for the exam, leading to the protected professional title: "IBQMI Certified Scrumban Practitioner®" The role of the IBQMI CERTIFIED ...

This book of is a must read for any executive or founder who wants to harness the power of mind in achieving the goals. The author has twenty plus years experience in selling enterprise software across six continents. This book will help executives in expanding their business in a global international marketplace. This book has keywords, sales techniques and above all a key learning to enhance global sales and business development. (excerpts from the book) "Mindset plays a major role in making a business successful. Over decades people and organizations have focused on training on Skills, ...

The greatest challenge of any start-up and growth company is the transition from an early stage start up to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture from concept to an award-winning global marketing communications company with well over a thousand employees in eighteen countries in a few short years.

Do you fancy yourself as a team-player? Then you might enjoy picking up the IBQMI® Approved Kanban Professional. This book will prepare you for the IBQMI® Approved Kanban Professional training. This valuable Kanban certification will help you launch your agile career. This certification enables you to demonstrate your skills and knowledge of general Kanban principles. The IBQMI® Approved Kanban Professional is a very good certification for members of agile teams, where optimal flow and signaling systems are common. Earn an exclusive and protected job title This book will prepare you for ...

China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred, and why it already affects us all.

In today’s fast-paced environment, the speed at which communication travels and the resounding calls for police accountability demonstrate a need for purposeful communications embedded in a strategic mindset. When done right, strategic communication can increase transparency, build trust, and encourage active community participation. Chief Cook has distilled over thirty years of experience into timely lessons filled with practical solutions you can begin implementing right away.

The world we live in changes dramatically every second. Globalization, terrorism, social inequities and all other problems have a huge impact on our economy and security. For the next period, these two main domains of study will be predominant because nowadays, the world faces multiple risks and challenges. If you wanted to succeed in growing your business and reaching new markets, you would need to develop new skills. By this book you will find easy-to-understand useful information on: *How to manage a project and take the best decisions during its implementation *Latest trends in ...

This groundbreaking book is the first to both identify the wide range of political risks that global firms face and show investors how to effectively manage them. Written by two of the world's leading figures in political risk management, it reveals that, while the world remains exceedingly risky for businesses, it is by no means incomprehensible. The authors provide a wealth of unique methods, tools, and concepts to help understand political risk, showing when and how political risk analysis works - and when it does not.

In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.

Many leaders today are stuck trying to keep up a blistering pace that is unsustainable and likely to lead to burnout. If you are looking to build leadership that remains resilient in the face of adversity, helps you manage setbacks, and compels you to perform at your absolute best, professionally and personally, The Endurance Leader model can help you achieve it.

Kennen Sie diese Situation? Der Mitarbeiter ruft an: "Chef, wir haben ein Problem." In der Folge hört dieser aufmerksam zu, und am Ende des Gespräches hat plötzlich der Chef das Problem des Mitarbeiters. Auf geheimnisvolle Weise hat sich der "Monkey" vom Mitarbeiter zum Chef herübergehangelt und sitzt nun vergnügt auf der Schulter des Chefs. Der Autor zeigt auf, mit welchen raffinierten Strategien Mitarbeiter versuchen, ihre Monkeys zurückzudelegieren und wie man sich als Chef davor schützen kann, um sich endlich wieder auf seine Kernaufgaben konzentrieren zu können und nicht in Überstunden zu versinken.

The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet. The world is becoming more volatile, and people are understandably worried about their financial futures. In this urgent and accessible guide to the crises and opportunities that lie ahead, economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz maps out the powerful tectonic forces that are shaping our future, and the ideas that will allow us to master them.

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.

Explosion of the economic relevance of data is related to: first, technological progress that has drastically reduced the costs of collecting and storing data; second, the advances in analytic techniques that have allowed for more advanced processing to extract greater value from available data. So, more value is extracted from exhausted data. Information generated for one purpose can and should be reused for another one, which means that data moves from primary to secondary uses. Data are more valuable over time.

Unstoppable takes the most valuable lessons and top commonalities from how to succeed and lays out the nine principles for unlimited success...in both business and in life. Proven by author Kelly Roach's award-winning career in corporate settings and as an entrepreneur, Unstoppable is set to inspire everyone from the new entrepreneur to the seasoned CEO.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, disrupting countless industries while its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. We now live in a world run, supplied and controlled by Amazon and its founder.

There is a new, highly personalized, more entrepreneurial environment being created inside today's most successful organizations. There is an intense focus on the customer, the quality of the product, and the contribution of each individual. In this program, hear Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence) as he presents in his unique, exciting, and dynamic style his newest ideas. Find out what you'll have to do to compete and win in the new business climate.

A powerful book that shows the step-by-step evolution of a new kind of global technology powerhouse, The Lenovo Way is an indispensable guide for leaders and managers who deal with strategy, innovation, branding, and HR at any kind of company. It also tells the remarkable story of how two women from very different backgrounds rose to become leaders in Lenovo's journey to the top.

If you're a business executive, owner, or manager, you'll appreciate Terry's clear insights into how to deal with the kinds of challenges you face when trying to run and grow your business to higher levels. If you think coaching is anything like consulting, think again...because Terry's methods are very different and yield extraordinary results. Each of the 32 chapters is filled with insights, examples, and concrete direction to take potential coaches and turn them into highly successful coaches.