Product Management Career

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.

For many in product management, success comes from mastery of tools like road maps, MVPs, strategy frameworks, and OKRs. These and other technical skills describe what a product person does to design, build and support new complex technologies for our users. But as technologies quickly become ubiquitous, it’s the human approach to creativity, innovation, decision-making, and leadership that makes the difference in whether an individual, team, product, and even organization is successful or not.

Hire with Fire is an educational and entertaining hiring book which acts as an interview guide for managers who want to hire the best people - engaged, A players, high achievers, and top performers. In this noteworthy hiring book, you will explore best practices for how to interview people. The authors offer four key traits to help you select and hire the best people, A players, and top talent. In addition, through their relationship-driven approach to interviewing and hiring, you will build an engaged workforce filled with top performers.

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%).

Leaderology defines the beginning of the Renaissance period in modern management and leadership while helping leaders to reach a new level of success. Leaderology is a new approach to managing organizations in the new realities which identifies common and specific errors that arise in any business and to spot problems that distance it from customers and limit the company’s capacities early, and how to treat them before they threaten the business itself.

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.

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.

This 2.5 hour audio program features CPA Sue Bishop, who has served more than 500 small business clients for the last 30 years. She describes how to decide what kind of business entity to be and the differences between sole proprietorship, LLC, Sub-S, and C-corporations. You'll learn about how to pay yourself and how to pay employees, how to deal with business registration and sales tax, how to set up business accounts, and keep records.

Super Change defines the new tools and tactics we all need to remain current and relevant in the new age of super change. In one generation, we have moved from the industrial age, the automotive age, the age of flight, the space age, the atomic age, the information age, the communication age, the entrepreneur age, and finally, the permanent age of super change. We all thought things would slow down, go back to normal, and that we could catch up. Things are not slowing down. Things are speeding up, and the pace of super change is accelerating.

In "Dark Psychology and Gaslighting Manipulation for the Corporate World," Dr. James Jordan leads you into the shadowy worlds of psychological manipulation and devious strategies that exist within the contemporary business environment. This ground-breaking book reveals the techniques for manipulating emotions that aspirational people use to go up the corporate ladder, get control, and hold onto their authority.

How the sum of one man’s experiences led to a life well lived. How does one create a happy and fulfilled life? For Marty Holleran, who had an ordinary upbringing in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the 1940's, he had great things planned for his future. Faced with a lifetime of personal trials and tribulations, successes, heartbreaks, and struggles, Marty rose above the hardships to achieve his desired life.

Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods for identifying drivers (causes) of risks so you can manage root causes rather than the symptoms of risks. Providing you with an appropriate quantification of the key factors of a risk allows you to prioritize those risks without introducing errors that render the numbers meaningless.

Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir of her 20-plus years at the helm and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world. Perloff's personal and professional journey - her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change.

La libertad de los trabajadores desata el éxito de las empresas. Existe una fórmula para que las empresas aumenten la productividad, las ganancias y el crecimiento que, sorprendentemente, no cuesta ni tiempo ni dinero. Se basa en la creencia de que, cuando las personas actúan con libertad por el interés de su empresa, los resultados se vuelven espectaculares. Freedom, Inc. revela los secretos de un paradigma empresarial exitoso basado en un entorno liberador, no jerárquico y de confianza que es el de empresas tan diversas como The Richards Group, Sun Hydraulics y Harley-Davidson.

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.

Production is a lively cultural process with its own rules and structures. In order to understand production correctly, it must be learned and experienced. Not in the lecture hall - but on the shop floor! Like every other discipline, production, too, is a field of enterprise with its own rules and structures comparable with a kitchen. A top cook learns the hard craft over several years, despite the fact that the taste is not of the same quality for every cook. And that is how it is, too, with production.

A project manager can achieve a lot - but a project leader with their team shoot goals and create real values.This audiobook will reveal nine leadership areas of a successful CEO and project manager; how to turn conflicts to your advantage; six bulletproof tips to solve complex problems; steps to build your performing team; and more. I believe that your deep desire is to become a project leader. If you agree with me then you should listen to this audiobook!

Desde Ulises hasta Steve Jobs, sobre los líderes se cree que son superhombres, personas que están por encima del bien y del mal. Este modelo inevitablemente da lugar a organizaciones frágiles, cuyo devenir depende demasiado de quien las dirige. Por suerte, esta vieja noción de liderazgo se está transformando en favor de una nueva idea: los empleados son tal valiosos como los jefes, que deben avivar el potencial no explotado del equipo. Bob Davids ha alcanzado grandes logros al confiar plenamente en sus empleados en lugar de mandar y controlar.

This audiobook will show you how to become the leader you deserve to be. You’ll learn the language of leadership by using 11 terms that will help guide you. Once you learn these languages, you’ll be ready to command. You’ll be prepared to be the leader you’ve always wanted to be, but even better, because you will connect with people, respect people, and earn their respect as well.

Ciertos errores pueden llevar a la ruina a empresas y propietarios, y hacer daño a la sociedad en general. También los fallos forman parte de la historia de los negocios. Y es buena idea que los directores conozcan esa historia, de modo de no repetirla. Dividido en cinco apartados (errores y omisiones en el área de dirección general y estrategia, de finanzas y administración, en el área comercial, en el área de factor humano, en el área de operaciones), este libro claro, ameno y cercano presenta una serie de errores comunes pero que se pueden evitar, recogidos por Luis Castañeda, experto en rehabilitar empresas.