Product Leadership

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

This book is great for beginners or those new to the manufacturing process because it is packed with real-world examples. It provides a better way of learning because readers are shown how rather than told how plants operate and employees interact. In a clear and concise manner, assembly type operations are explored while examining the various departments and people that exist within. Each department’s function is discussed along with a special “In action” section that shows how employees in those departments work together to accomplish organizational goals. As an added bonus, Louis ...

This is where your career finally takes off as the leader of your own dedicated team! Are you ready to start earning more by learning how to become a successful product manager? Have you managed to get an interview for a product manager position and need help on how to go about it? The product manager plays a central and crucial role in any company. In a world driven by the consumption of products, they get to decide what products to create, how to sell them, and who to sell them to. So, if you aspire to become one, you’ve got to be ready for it.

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work.

Plant managers are often the most important employees in manufacturing facilities. They are in charge of all aspects of plant operations, and they interact with virtually everyone involved with the business. This book examines these unique individuals by analyzing what they do and how they function while describing the challenges they must overcome to perform at peak levels. It also highlights the many different skills that these leaders must possess to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.

Plant Manager’s Reference Handbook This book discusses 12 essential skills of plant managers and the reasons why those skills are needed. The skills discussed are delegation, organization, recruitment, motivation, communication, strategic, training, decision making, emotional intelligence, problem solving, sales, and political. Outsource Manufacturing This book provides a basic introduction to outsource manufacturing. It explores the pros and cons of this increasingly popular concept, suggests ideas for its improvement, and predicts its role in the future. The text is informational and ...

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle.

In Radical Product Thinking (RPT), product development is led by the vision for the change it’s intended to create. This methodology helps leaders reimagine the problems they face and align their team to find creative solutions using five elements: Vision, Strategy, Prioritization, Execution, and Culture. R. Dutt guides listeners through these elements so they develop a clear process for achieving their desired change, incorporate it into daily activities, and turn RPT skills into muscle memory.

By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lessons and frameworks, this practical book shows product managers how to manage the crucial relationships that will help you make an impact and advance your career. You'll learn how to build trusting relationships with stakeholders, optimize your communication for different audiences, get buy-in for your ideas and roadmaps, and have stakeholders appreciate it when you say no.

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger - think global - and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

In "Covert Hypnosis: A Training Manual for Delivering Multimodal Hypnotic Sessions," the realm of covert hypnosis is expanded and redefined. Breaking away from conventional boundaries, this book presents covert hypnosis as a subtle and integral part of everyday communication. The authors define Covert Hypnosis as the absence of a clearly demarcated announcement of hypnosis onset or conclusion, making this practice a seamless and natural component of interaction, which links a wide array of practitioners into this fascinating art form. Explore the Subtle Power of Influence Integrative ...

The Oz Principle has sold more than a million copies since it debuted in 1994, establishing it as the go-to reference on workplace accountability throughout the world. By embracing its practical and invaluable advice, tens of thousands of companies have improved their organizational accountability - the key to achieving and sustaining exceptional results.

This book has 500 questions with answers and explanations, that prepare you to answer questions in professional Scrum Product Owner certification assessments of leading organizations. This is newly built based on the recent changes and latest version of The Scrum Guide, November 2020 version.

“The CTO’s key tasks are not those of lab director writ large but, rather, of a technical businessperson deeply involved in shaping and implementing overall corporate strategy.” - MIT Sloan Management Review What does it take to be a great CTO? Leadership - Expertise - Innovation - Teamwork - Relationships - Passion In the 21st century, every company that is going to be a leader in its industry needs an executive who is focused on identifying, tracking, developing, and profiting from new and emerging technologies. General Electric, Motorola, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and hundreds of ...

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on research and development, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on product-based research and development in organizations…primarily manufacturers. It examines the responsibilities of R&D personnel, analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of R&D departments, suggests methods for improving R&D, and assesses the general future of the concept. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. If you are ...

THE WORST MISTAKE AN AUTHOR CAN MAKE IS TO SELL ONLY BOOKS. Just 1% of authors make a living out of their books. But a book should be just one product in a larger ecosystem of digital products and services that build trust, authority, and wealth. In The Solo Author you will learn how to: Develop a framework for your book and your content. Write, publish, and launch a great nonfiction book. Use your book as a lead-generation asset that attracts high-ticket clients. Build an ecosystem with low-cost products, a main offering, and upsells. A book ecosystem creates more value for your audience ...

Italian brands are known to create some of the most premium, sought-after products in the world. Learn to compete in the modern marketplace using the proven business principles that Italian brands have been employing for generations.

Leadership is about more than giving orders or meeting quotas. It’s about creating vision, inspiring trust, and unlocking the potential in those you lead. Leader, Not a Manager dives deep into the 17 core traits of successful leaders, providing a clear roadmap for anyone ready to transition from simply managing tasks to truly leading people.

Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned around the world. In devoting all his resources to iteratively developing the technology, he risked it all, but out of many failures and setbacks came hard-fought success. In Invention: A Life, Dyson reveals how he came to set up his own company and led it to become one of the most inventive technology companies in the world. It is a compelling and dramatic tale, with many obstacles overcome.