Product Leadership

To create a link from now to the future, emerging leaders and managers need to create or fine-tune goals and strategies. This “what to do and why” is of critical importance. After all, business leaders have invested greatly in capabilities to bring about innovation and creativity. Yet these pursuits won’t result in anything concrete if you don’t understand what’s needed to formulate and carry out a strategy. There are so many books and resources on strategy and strategic planning that you can wind up feeling confused and overwhelmed. However, this book is different. It’s written...

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 ...

Hypnotic Writing Lab: Leveraging Psychological Triggers for Persuasive Writing What if your words didn’t just tell a story but transformed how people think, feel, and respond? Hypnotic Writing Lab takes you beyond traditional storytelling, diving deep into the psychological triggers that create lasting impact. Whether you’re crafting narratives for influence, entertainment, or persuasion, this book offers the tools to captivate your audience on both conscious and subconscious levels. In this immersive guide, you’ll learn how to: Leverage Subconscious Triggers: Tap into universal human...

In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient - lessons directly applicable to your organization.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on outsource manufacturing then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. 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 educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. If you are interested in learning about outsource manufacturing, then this book is for you.

In Turn Ideas Into Products, author Steve Johnson introduces a nimble idea-to-market process with strong emphasis on personal experience with customers. From business planning to product launch, this approach for managing products empowers your product team to work smarter and collaborate better with colleagues and customers.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Leadership isn’t about titles or authority - it’s about influence, vision, and resilience. The greatest leaders in history followed core principles that made them stand out, allowing them to guide others with clarity, courage, and empathy. The Science of True Leadership reveals the 12 essential rules that every great leader follows, providing a blueprint to elevate your leadership skills to the next level.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you use design thinking to produce breakthrough innovations and transform your organization. This book will inspire you to: understand the transformative potential of design thinking; proceed from idea to product at lightning speed; iterate with rapid customer feedback; fail small and win big; create new products people love; lead design thinking teams more effectively; and open new paths to innovation at your company.

Are you a product leader looking for advice on how to be certain that every product manager on your team lives up to their full potential? Do you want to make sure your product people are competent, empowered, and inspired, and would you like to know how you can best help them on this journey? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this book is for you!

En este libro, aprenderás a desarrollar la mentalidad, los hábitos y las habilidades de un líder que se gana el respeto y fomenta la lealtad. Desde la autenticidad personal hasta la construcción de resiliencia, cada capítulo te equipa con herramientas basadas en psicología comprobada y ejemplos del mundo real, guiándote hacia un estilo de liderazgo que transforma vidas, comenzando por la tuya.

Mistakenly, many people think plan-do-check-act (PDCA) is a continuous improvement cycle, even if they neglect the human part. PDCA does aim to improve the process, but if you have only improved the process without developing and teaching your people, you have put the process at risk of slipping back. People must be trained in the culture of continuous improvement so they can keep managing the process with the new method.

If you weren’t born to a wealthy family, the prospect of being a multi-millionaire can seem incredibly far-fetched. But, you’ve also heard stories of self-made millionaires. How did they get to where they are? What’s the secret to their amazing success? What goes on inside the mind of a multi-millionaire? By working smarter and believing you already have what it takes, you too can become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.

"Into The Product Unknown: Mastering the Art of Working In Uncertainty" is a comprehensive and engaging guide for product managers seeking to thrive in the dynamic world of technology and innovation. This insightful eBook delves into the mindset, skills, and strategies required to excel as a product manager in an ever-changing landscape, where uncertainty is the only constant. Author Aston Marlowe shares practical advice, real-world examples, and best practices for navigating the unknown and overcoming challenges in product management. From developing a strong product vision and leveraging ...

Harness the potent power of Kanban and Scrum with this bundle and take your project-management skills to the next level.

The Influential Product Manager teaches product managers how to behave at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer. Product managers are under pressure to drive spectacular results, often without wielding much direct power or authority. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product?

Ideas change the world. But what if you don’t have the expertise to turn your great idea into a reality? Find the answer in this game-changing guide for non-technical founders! Tired of going unrecognized in your 9-to-5 while helping big companies earn more money? Have a great app idea and want to know if it’s feasible for the real world? Worried that your idea might not see the light of day because you don’t know how to make it a reality? Agonizing over the possibility that your target users might not even like your product? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then ...

If you are bringing in your first intern, or growing your program to 1,000 interns, Intern Management is required reading to maximize the experience for both you and your interns. —Gregory V. Jaros, Co-Founder of InternConnect, Co-Founder of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Are you interested in taking your internship program to a new level? If so, this book is for you. Intern Management shares a set of guiding principles that ensure you host an exceptional internship - every time. Intern Management outlines nine principles for designing an exceptional internship with dignity. ...

In their best-selling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production, principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

Renowned business author David Magee fuses both the interesting history and philosophy of one of America's most well-known companies in this entertaining aid for business management. While other American businesses are crumbling under low-cost foreign competition, John Deere Company thrives by maintaining such ideas as building the best product, being open to change and innovation, listening rather than leading, and keeping virtuous business practices.