Product Leadership

Fraternity parties can be legendary, talked about by students, parents, alumni, and brothers for years to come. But one wrong move - a band pulling a no-show, not having enough money to pay entertainers, or the cops showing up - can turn a once-in-a-lifetime experience into a memorable failure. As the social chair of your fraternity, it's on you to guarantee every event your chapter hosts is an overwhelming success.

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.

As product managers, we all want to become better at what we do. However, sometimes we can find ourselves in a rut: we've solved the immediate problems, our product is doing well, and we've just lost that drive that we need in order to reach the next level. This is when the power of competition comes in. We all like a good challenge. When we are faced with a situation in which we might not be the best, or we might not know exactly what we should do, that's when we can become our best.

A generational leader at her family's insurance agency, Chrissy Myers thought she knew the answers to business and life—until the Affordable Care Act shook the very foundation of the business. In the tailspin just before ACA went live, Chrissy unexpectedly lost her husband. Suddenly, she was a single mom with two kids under six, steering a business with an uncertain future. Chrissy candidly shares her struggles as a business leader in a market upheaval, the challenges common in a family business, and the stress she experienced as a widow and mom dating and building a healthy family.

There's a leader inside all of us, yet often we can't see it. Instead, we settle for a quiet life on the sidelines. To become a leader who motivates, influences, and inspires others to succeed you need to find that inner leader. You need to develop a LEADERSHIP ATTITUDE.

You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time? This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.

This qualitative research focuses on risk management in the supply chain of industrial entomology companies that are mass-rearing insects for human food or for feed for farmed animals. This research presents answers to such questions as what are the risks related especially to the entomology industry, what are the reasons behind the risks, and finally how the risks can be mitigated.

La disrupción es la nueva normalidad. Esto no debería convertirse en un dolor de cabeza ni en motivo de pánico para tu empresa, sino en el impulso necesario para emprender un apasionante viaje de transformación. En este libro, Ivan Bofarull, Chief Innovation Officer de Esade, propone tres enseñanzas clave para lograrlo: Adoptar una mentalidad verdaderamente emprendedora gracias al moonshot thinking, el modelo mental que antepone las mejoras exponenciales (10x) a las incrementales (+10%).

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners.

Organizaciones No. 5 nace del convencimiento del valor de las personas y del talento de todos los miembros de una organización. Dirigido especialmente a líderes, pero también a todas las personas que busquen predicar con el ejemplo, en este audiolibro encontrarás reflexiones, investigaciones, aprendizajes y experiencias sobre la importancia de impulsar un liderazgo desde una perspectiva humana.

In this challenging audiobook, Thomas Michael Hogg reveals the success formula of companies with high profitable growth. The typical key success factors of German companies are presented in an inspiring manner to motivate each decision maker taking action immediately. The seven-step profitable growth methodology published in this audiobook is a proven blueprint implemented at leading enterprises in multiple countries and will transform your business mindset. Use this practical framework to scale your company achieving both top - and bottom - line growth.

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

Giving machines and operators the power to notice when something is wrong and quickly pause their work. This helps companies to increase quality at every step of the process and to have workers and machines work separately for better efficiency. Jidoka is a fundamental concept in the Toyota Production System, which is an important way of doing things in Toyota factories. It is one of the two main principles, along with just-in-time. Jidoka is a system that helps identify problems quickly because if a problem happens, work immediately stops. This helps make things better and prevents ...

What's Your Plan? provides a step-by-step guide to proactively planning a successful business model, implementing practical tools to take your business to the next level, and avoiding pitfalls along the way. You will learn from real clients and receive no-nonsense, hands-on advice to help you develop a profitable, successful, and resilient business to support your life and your dreams.

How did Ford Motors use Lean development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business.

This small but powerful book takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer to new product delys - helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenges the premises undermining your performance. Then, it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately.

This practical, easy-to-digest guide provides you with crucial tools to enable you to break into product management. Based on thousands of conversations with established product managers and aspiring product managers, this mythbusting resource arms you with valuable knowledge. We walk you through the lives of multiple kinds of product managers, set up your foundation for success, and break down the most popular questions that come up in the product management interview process.

My six decades on this earth have left me, thus far, yearning to share God's goodness to all. I wanted to leave the chapters of my youth with gratitude for all he has seen me through, with a declaration of love to the Lord for the truths he has revealed to my heart. I pray for a generation I may not live long enough to share them with, in hopes that my legacy continues to bring forth brave, loving, and God-fearing people, who continue to bring good fruit to a fallen world.

Twenty-two of the world’s most unstoppable women united to share how to be fierce, fearless, and unf*ckwithable in life and business no matter where you are on your path to bliss. This audiobook is filled with heartfelt stories of wisdom, inspiration, and tools to assist you in moving through whatever keeps you stuck in fear and prevents you from living your dream life.