Learning Businesses Management

The percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat? This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one.

Book coach Cathy Fyock doesn’t tell you how to create a Blog2Book - she shows you! If you’ve been writing weekly blog posts for a year, you likely have enough content for your own book. In this easy format, Cathy provides you a framework along with tips and tools to create your own book quickly!

An expert guide for senior executives who want to quickly understand what really matters in digital business and what it takes to win. Today’s technology demands lightning-fast changes. But speed without purpose is not progress. In Fast Times, McKinsey leaders cut through the hype to provide a listenable inside look into what digital winners do best: set direction, learn, and adapt faster than anyone else.

This audiobook attempts to define leadership. Why? Because, "What is leadership?" is a question I get asked often. When you understand the definition of leadership, you will understand why leadership is everything. In this audiobook, I will define leadership in several ways and highlight how it plays out in practice.

What is talent? How do you fulfil your potential? How do you create a winning team? These three simple questions, which are fundamental to the running of any successful business, take Ben Lyttleton on a fascinating journey to some of the world's top football clubs to discover the innovative new methods of developing and maximising talent.

Vision is a mental picture of what you want to achieve or how you want your future to pan out. It gives you the direction of where you are headed and what your ideal life should look like. Unfortunately, not everyone has a clear vision of where their life, business, or career is headed. Volume three of Become an Uncaged Trailblazer covers everything you need to have a clearer vision for your future. You will learn about 35 ways on how to successfully take action, find, utilize, rethink, and teach your vision.

Time is a wasting asset because once it has been spent, it can never be retrieved. There is no such thing as a refund and the only re-runs are the ones that might be shown on the television. Everyone is under more pressure these days: the pace of life is faster and individuals are being asked to work longer hours, sometimes with damaging consequences to their health and private life. Good time management is essential.

This refreshingly original audiobook presents a model of leadership built on the habits of mind of the artist - creativity, compassion, and courage. The author recounts his engaging - and deeply human - journey through educational leadership and art and shares his "Framework for Artful Leadership" that will help you lead with more empathy and creativity.

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices.

This information-packed audiobook relays solid expertise you will need to become an effective meeting administrator. As with any topic, the basics do not just come to you; you must make a conscious effort to learn what you need to know to become more skillful. Knowing these basics of planning and managing meetings will "head off" problems before they occur. If you are presently involved in meeting planning or responsible for chairing meetings or see that in your future, this audiobook is for you!

In today's fast-paced and increasingly complex world, time management skills are more important than ever. With constant demands from work, family, and other obligations, it can be easy to become overwhelmed and lose track of priorities. However, by developing effective time management strategies, individuals can take control of their time and achieve greater success and satisfaction in all aspects of life. This audiobook provides practical and proven strategies for taking control of your time and achieving success.

The Student Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner—today's premier leadership experts—demonstrate how anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience. Grounded in the same extensive research as the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, it uses real-life stories and examples exclusively from college students.

Managing a team for the first time can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be. And with an aid like The Confident Manager, you will receive all the tools and techniques that you need to manage effectively and with confidence.

This audio course provides an overview of core words and phrases related to managerial activities. This is the ideal course if you work with Italian colleagues, suppliers, or customers and wish to improve your business-focused Italian. The course is split into 14 sessions, enabling you to build an understanding of business Italian in two weeks.

Companies and the leaders within them struggle to achieve results. With the advances in technology, companies are either running successfully into this new world or failing to keep up. Is your company beached? Stranded on the sands of past success? Slow and steady no longer wins the race. Beached Whale will equip you to evaluate if your company has become beached. Do you have a coordinated enterprise company, or do you have a company mired down in bureaucracy? You could be a beached-whale company. There is only one way to find out.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn how to master the skills needed to grow as a person and pass these along to your team. You'll discover different managerial styles and the attributes of a great manager, as well as the importance of effective communication and the role of a coach, motivator, and mentor.

A lifelong curiosity in learning and teaching led me to journaling as a deliberate process to accelerate my insights through detailed recording of ideas and reflection upon their significance. Over 20 years, my passion for journaling grew and I saw how my reflections and learnings could amplify and heighten my expertise in Leadership Development. The recorded contents of 68 journals in the past 20 years has allowed me to find innovative ways to help other leaders achieve their own leadership goals and ambitions.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans in order to find the thirty best business stories from the past 12 months. Among those selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired; and many others.

Wild Success takes you on a thrilling ride into the world of extreme adventurers - extraordinary men and women whose hard-earned wisdom can be applied to any business situation.

Preparation Breeds Professionalism is a consolidated guide to leadership in the United States Army. Leveraging over 50 years of military experience from a trio of first sergeants, Preparation Breeds Professionalism delivers a short and concise breakdown of the leadership attributes, competencies, and values of the United States Army and serves as a must-listen for the professional soldier and aspiring leader.