Management Problem Solving

Your organization’s culture: It’s either an asset or a liability. At this very moment, it’s either lifting your business performance or “eating your strategy for breakfast”. How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter? Listen to find out more...To make a bad culture good, or a good culture great, you’ve got to deliberately transmit strong and steady signals. This guide shows you how.

We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals - and everything in between. But since we live and work in a vortex of tasks, meetings, decisions, and serious responsibilities, we rarely get the chance to step back. In this practical guide, best-selling author and Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco argues that you don't need long periods of solitude and tranquility to reflect well.

Stand Out From the Crowd with Essential Soft Skills In today's competitive IT industry, technical skills alone are no longer enough to succeed. To truly excel and unlock new career opportunities, you need to develop a comprehensive set of soft skills that will set you apart from the rest. "Beyond Coding: The Complete Guide to IT Soft Skills" is your ultimate resource for acquiring these invaluable non-technical competencies. Effective Communication: The Key to Success Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful IT career. This book will teach you how to convey complex ...

Aprender a sopesar los costos y beneficios de tus elecciones, priorizarlas y escuchar tus instintos es fundamental para silenciar esta sensación de fomo y a su primo menos conocido: fobo o Fear Of a Better Option (miedo a una mejor opción). Después de todo, ¿a quién no le gustaría sentirse cómodo y confiado de sus decisiones? Escrito con autoevaluaciones a lo largo del libro, FOMO: Fear of Missing Out te ayudará a determinar y eliminar las partes de tu vida que causan más ansiedad que felicidad y a decir no con seguridad y confianza.

Everyone faces problems in business and life. If you are like most people, you go right to the solution and miss all or most of the other seven critical steps. Will your mindset support your plan? Are there barriers you need to identify and overcome? What values are driving your decisions? What is already working and what isn't? Imagine how much more you could accomplish if you spent a little more time planning in a way that could ensure your success. Learn step-by-step how to make inspired decisions in your business and your life with confidence and fearlessness.

Mind Tools for Managers helps new and experienced leaders develop the skills they need to be more effective in everything they do. It brings together the 100 most important leadership skills - as voted for by 15,000 managers and professionals worldwide - into a single volume, providing an easy-access solutions manual for people wanting to be the best manager they can be. Each chapter details a related group of skills, plus the tools you need to put ideas into practice.

Elliot Kallen and Adam Torres come together in this insightful and impactful book, filled with their personal perspectives of what it means to become an entrepreneur. Adam says he has had a more traditional approach to his corporate success, which turned toward a media company entrepreneurial path, while Elliot has had a more resilient and creative entrepreneurial path that led him through various companies he began and sold, before landing on the one he owns now. Between these pages, you will find valuable lessons, strategies, teachings, ideas, stories, as well as the ups and downs of ...

Author Nigel Cumberland distills all the wisdom and knowledge of a lifetime of starting and selling businesses and coaching hundreds of wealthy leaders into 100 short chapters of advice on building and retaining sustainable wealth. Every chapter features a habit, mindset, or technique that’s common to wealthy people and instructions for how to use them in your own life. 100 Things Millionaires Do unpacks the habits, tools, techniques, and mentality of self-made millionaires and shows you how to begin your own journey to a wealthy future.

Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid. Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death.

In The High-Velocity Edge, the reissued edition of five-time Shingo Prize winner Steven J. Spear's critically acclaimed book Chasing the Rabbit, Spear describes what sets market-dominating companies apart and provides a detailed framework you can leverage to surge to the lead in your own industry. Spear examines the internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, from technology to design and from manufacturing to health care.

The Circle of Wisdom is a path for discovering the wisdom in, and the solution to, the problems we face in life and in business. This path of this discovery is a circle. Success isn't just something attained, it is the path itself. When we take the path of wisdom, we are freeing ourselves into new ways of decision making. This natural wisdom is the key to leading at all levels human interaction.

These bite-sized devotions are like daily supplements for anyone trying to lead, manage or operate a business from a biblical perspective. Business consultant and Strengths trainer Jim Seybert combed through the Bible looking for passages that were relevant to the struggles facing his colleagues and clients. What he found was a treasure trove of examples that God cares a great deal about the way we run our businesses, ministries and organizations.

You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.

Dr. McKibben guides us through her revolutionary and innovative self-help technique of dropping to the blank screen to learn how to manage triggered feelings and to understand why we feel the way we do. By monitoring neuromuscular signals that indicate unconscious triggered emotions, we can work with the brain rather than against it. She teaches us a practical, self-reliant method to retrain our brains and change our responses to life's stressors.

When a manager is pressed to find a project manager for an important client, he looks to Rhett Sero, our to-be hero. He introduces Rhett to Heda Heldenmacher, a noted project management consultant. Designed to increase success, this book is for accidental and new project managers, beginning project management learners, and those exploring project management careers or looking for a refresher. Told in the form of a business fable, concepts are put in everyday terms and stories make it more memorable.

In these turbulent times, companies can be forced to pivot on a dime to meet new market challenges. But how do you know which move to make? How do you hit on the solution to what’s threatening your bottom line? Ali Davachi draws from his decades of experience turning around companies to detail his innovative and proven system to creating positive change. In addition, Davachi walks the listener through common obstacles that hold businesses back from effectively confronting new challenges—and shows them how to create meaningful transformation that’s both powerful and profitable.

What if the process of turning raw data into meaningful insights didn't have to be so painful, time-consuming, and frustrating? What if there were a better way to do analytics? Fortunately, you're in luck. Analytics: The Agile Way demonstrates how progressive organizations such as Google, Nextdoor, and others approach analytics in a fundamentally different way. They are applying the same Agile techniques that software developers have employed for years. They have replaced large batches in favor of smaller ones, and their results will astonish you.

Being a responsive leader means playing to win. Responsive leadership can thrive anywhere, unlike systematic leadership. The latter imposes methods and laws; principles govern action. In contrast, responsive leadership is a living, changing set of traits and skills that adapts to new people and environments. You may have an impressive grasp of how to influence, inspire, and build teams, but you must know how to adapt your abilities to each new organization, or to changes within the organization - new board members, new staff members, new shareholders.

In today's fast-changing, hyper-competitive market, developing your ability to creatively solve problems is mission critical. Creativity fuels growth, serves clients, and contributes to mission-based pursuits. Across every industry, organizations have an insatiable appetite to find creative problem-solvers, who can crack the code to unlock innovative outcomes and drive measurable results.