Project Management Leadership

If you listen to the news, robots are coming for your job. Full-time employment will soon be a thing of the past as organizations opt more to hire employees on a contract basis. With technological advances across email, video, project management, and instant messaging platforms, being tied to a desk working full time for one company is becoming obsolete. So, where does that leave you? The Human Cloud may be the most important book you hear to prepare for how work is done in the future.

Every day around the world, across all business sectors, projects of various size and scope are being planned, started and completed and each one of these has a project manager in charge of ensuring that each member of each project team is working as effectively as possible in order to see it through successfully. If you are interested in learning how to join their ranks, then this is the book you have been waiting for.

The Velocity Advantage teaches how to bring these two worlds together to more systematically improve implementation results and reduce organizational aggravation.Your projects can be planned and implemented better and faster using the breakthrough approach. Proven to work consistently across industries and project types, applying the Velocity Advantage will make both you and your projects more successful.

Lean Six Sigma is a technique for process improvement designed to eliminate challenges, remove waste and inefficiency, and improve working conditions to better respond to customer needs. It integrates the Lean and Six Sigma techniques, processes, and concepts into one popular and powerful approach to improve the operations of your company.

You are about to discover how anyone can achieve extraordinary success by simply harnessing the power of his or her memory. What if I told you that you could learn and memorize more in less time? Stay focused, quit being frustrated, improve concentration, be more productive, and absorb info like a human sponge...and best of all do it in as little as five minutes a day? In Computer Memory that's exactly what you'll get.

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.

Agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. Your ability to quickly change and adapt to your environment will make or break, not only your career but could be the deciding factor as to whether your company survives in the coming years.

In a time of celebrity worship and self-absorption, Judith's well-reasoned and heart-felt appeal is so countercultural as to be revolutionary. Her words demonstrate what "thank you" power really means. Imagine, as does the author, people acknowledging each other's humanity, accomplishments, talents, and wisdom on a continuous basis. It might just catch on. And wouldn't that be something! This listening experience will change your life and the life of everyone around you!

It can be challenging to find the time to read and study for the project management professional (PMP) test! But now you can learn to ace the PMP exam without memorizing a thing! This audiobook teaches you to see processes in a totally new way so that you will understand and remember. In stark contrast to the traditional, boring, long PMP exam prep books, this audiobook simplifies everything down to make learning logical and simple.

Sometimes people dive into new projects because they really want to make some money or to "get something going". They put pressure on themselves to start a project mainly for the sake of trying to create some forward momentum. While forward momentum can be a beautiful thing, I would actually recommend against this approach. Usually when I see people try to motivate themselves like this, their projects fizzle out.

This audiobook provides project managers with five simple checklists to manage projects using a standard work approach that contains most of the principles found in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). If you manage projects, this audiobook will provide you a simple approach to deliver quality results, whether you’re just starting out or if you’ve been managing projects for years.

Wie schaffen es die erfolgreichsten Leute der Welt, Work-Life-Balance zu kreieren? Wie schaffen sie es scheinbar mühelos, all die tollen Erfolge in den Bereichen Business, Geld, Familie oder Gesundheit zu erzielen? Wie teilen sich diese Menschen ihre 24 Stunden, die ihnen täglich zur Verfügung stehen? Falls du dich immer schon gefragt hast, wie du die Stunden am Tag für dein Einkommen, deine Familie und dich selbst nur aufteilen solltest, um das Optimum herauszuholen, wirst du nach diesem Hörbuch, wie es viele der anderen erfolgreichen Menschen meistern.

Managing projects effectively and on time can be tough. But how would you like a system to manage several projects at once, and bring in all of them on time and on budget? What if you could clearly identify your priorities and consistently meet your deadlines? What if factoring in your hard-won wisdom and keenest insights suddenly became systematic for you? How would you like to have more work/life balance, and even be able to go home on time? It's no pipe dream - now you can!

There are a host of neuroscientific explanations for why laughter makes us feel so great. Laughter triggers "feel good" chemicals in the brain which activate opiate receptors throughout your body and mind. Creating a workplace culture in which laughter is not only allowed but expected is an important step in building the trust, openness, authenticity, storytelling, and teamwork (TOAST) that are essential to any healthy collaborative environment.

The way you feel today - with fear, doubt, and insecurity flooding your mind with every step you take - is simply an outward representation of all the things that caused you pain as a child. Let me try to explain it this way: Did you ever hear your doctor say that a fever isn't a disease? If running a fever is not an illness, then what is it? It's a symptom. In this book you will learn how to build self-confidence.

Sumérgete en 'Cómo hacer negocios con tecnología: El toque Midas', un fascinante manual de Daniel Cestau Liz que desentraña los secretos de triunfar en el dinámico mundo de la tecnología. Desde estrategias comerciales hasta casos de éxito, este libro es una certificación única en su clase. Con el enfoque de un 'Rey Midas' tecnológico, Daniel comparte décadas de experiencia, guiándote para elevar la facturación, aumentar la rentabilidad y destacar en la industria.

Loss prevention is necessary to protect a company's profit. We must identify the changes and the steps needed to fix the problem of loss, or make the loss prevention department identify what has worked at preventing loss compared with what has not worked at preventing loss. I solve the problem by using over 20 different professional resources and even a personal interview. This solution can be a model for all, and every retail corporation cited has been tested and researched in a scholarly fashion.

Anyone can be a leader. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.

Congratulations! You've been hired by a client to get something done. Presumably, you have some sort of expertise in the area, you have someone on your team who is knowledgeable, or you'll be hiring somebody who does. This book provides some of the lessons I've learned over my 35-year career about managing consulting projects.

Whether it's the great American novel or a groundbreaking new app, many people want to create a Big Thing, but finding the motivation to get started, let alone complete the work, can be daunting. In The Big Thing, New York Times business writer and editor Phyllis Korkki combines real-life stories, science, and insights from her own experience to illuminate the factors that drive people to complete big creative projects - and the obstacles that threaten to derail success.