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  Prescription for Survival - A...

  Bernard Lown

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  “How close we came to extinction, and it is forgotten now.” So begins Nobel Prize-winner Bernard Lown’s story of his fight against the nuclear symptom of what he calls “the disease of militarism.” It is still active and highly contagious, as witnessed by events in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and all too many other places. And it can only be stopped, as this extraordinary memoir vividly demonstrates, by concerned citizens working together.  In 1981, brimming with anxiety about the escalating nuclear confrontation with the Russians, Lown launched a USA-USSR antinuclear movement with Soviet cardiologist Evgeni Chazov: The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Over the next four years Lown and Chazov recruited more than 150,000 doctors worldwide to join their movement, held international conferences that included U. S. and Russian military leaders, met with numerous world political leaders, and appeared on television programs broadcast throughout the USSR and the U. S. In 1985, despite active opposition from the U. S. government and NATO, Lown and Chazov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW.  This dramatic story is told with a vibrancy of language that illuminates dramatic scenes such as Lown convincing King Hussein of Jordan to join the anti-nuclear struggle during a medical exam, the heart attack of a Russian journalist at an IPPNW press conference, and Lown’s face-to-face conversations with Gorbachev. Although this book is concerned with a potential clash of superpowers, Lown writes, “At the heart of these cascading events is a human narrative.”  “Historical amnesia is a prelude for repeated victimization,” Lown says. Prescription for Survival probes the past to help us understand what drove, and continues to drive, nuclear proliferation, and offers a blueprint showing how we can join together across national boundaries to end it.

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  Agile Product Management:...

  Paul VII

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  Agile product management just got easier! Product Owner: 27 Tips to Manage Your Product and Work with Scrum Teams: In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven tips to effectively create a product and work with scrum teams. I am confident that this class will enable you to learn a multitude of skills since it starts by giving you a full introduction to the concept of scrum and agile product development, scrum and agile principles, and a host of other valuable information that will give you a full understanding of the topic. I then walk you through the process of understanding your role as a product owner, how your role differs from that of a traditional product manager, how to create products, and a lot more. Once you've learnt all that, I will then give you valuable tips for effectively creating a product and working with teams. As you go through the class, you will come across a wide range of practical examples that you can use to understand the scrum framework a lot better. To break this class into easy-to-digest parts, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum, its principles and other concepts involved in scrum What your job as a product owner entails and how your work differs from that of a typical product manager How to create a product using the scrum framework How product creation in scrum differs from other agile frameworks like the Waterfall method How to create a product roadmap 27 tips that you can follow to create your product and to manage your scrum team So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Agile: The Complete Overview of Agile Principles and Practices. In this class you will be given a complete overview of agile principles and practices used to deliver projects. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a complete introduction to agile. I then walk you step by step through the differences between agile and traditional methods. In today's fast-paced world, I feel that agile methods are crucial for improving your effectiveness whether you are a business owner, product owner, development team, service team, or service oriented team. Along the way I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for being an agile practitioner. In this class you will learn: A complete overview of agile including the popular principles of scrum and XP What agile is and how it is different from traditional project delivery methods So let's get started and let me teach you what it takes to be an agile practitioner.

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  Intrinsic Work - A Flexible...

  Andrew Camp

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  If we must work, we might as well get the most out of it. 
  Welcome to the before Intrinsic Work and after Intrinsic Work experience. This is not a magical process or some 5 a.m. early bird madness. It is several proven methods, stitched together, that will help you form your own unstoppable productivity wheel. Adopt it at whatever speed and scale is right for you. Use it for upward trajectory and/or work life balance. 
  The system is designed for anyone who works. Those who have more freedom with their time and what they work on each day, will capture more value from it. However, anyone who works can get something from the system. 
  Intrinsic Work is an adaptable framework of common best practices: 
  #1 Time Habits: Most workdays can be described by our time habits, use them to better control time and achieve results faster, with less effort. 
  #2 Big Goals: Connect your personal dreams (other than retiring haha) with your near-term achievable goals and use them to find opportunities, avoid pitfalls and make incremental progress. 
  #3 Levered Tasks: Design the tasks you do each day with greater purpose. Research to learn from others and align tasks with their best time habit to achieve milestones faster. 
  #4 Drive Momentum: Stay on track daily and over the long haul where real results are made. This includes the proven Super Day planning method! 
  Understanding time, spending a few minutes writing goals, learning how to design better tasks and picking up techniques to be productive when you need to be, all this will help just about anyone. Use it to achieve more, work, less and enjoy life. 
  Achieve More, Work Less, and Enjoy Life.

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  HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016 - The...

  Donald N. Sull, Herminia Ibarra,...

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  A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. 
   
   
   
  We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips. 
   
   
   
  This book will inspire you to: tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete; fuel performance by redesigning your organization's practices around feedback; learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making; understand; why your strategy execution isn't working—and how to fix it; lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone; and transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity.

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  The Long Space Age - The...

  Alexander MacDonald

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  An economic historian traces uncovers the story of privately funded space exploration from early 19th century astronomical observatories to SpaceX. The standard historical narrative of American space exploration begins during the Cold War, with the federal government’s efforts to beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race. Given this framing, the more recent emergence of private sector space exploration appears to be a new and controversial phenomenon. But as Alexander MacDonald argues in The Long Space Age, privately funded space exploration had been happening in the United States long before we tried to put a man on the moon.  Since the early 19th century, private observatories had been making discoveries and developing technologies that led directly to NASA’s epochal 20th century achievements. And their efforts were no less ambitious for their time than SpaceX and Blue Origin are in today’s resurgent space industry.The Long Space Age examines the economic history of this centuries-long development, from those first American observatories to the International Space Station.

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  Decision Making and Problem Solving

  John Adair

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  In Decision Making and Problem Solving, leadership guru John Adair provides the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions. 
  Being able to take innovative and creative approaches to new challenges is crucial for leadership success. Decision Making and Problem Solving will help you to learn key techniques and models to confidently make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems. Using checklists, exercises, case studies and tried-and-tested methods, Adair provides a clear framework that can generate ideas and inspire confidence in your team - so you can spot the solution in every problem, and create ideas to rival even the best strategists. 
  The creating success series of books... 
  With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topics and is written by an expert team of internationally best-selling authors and business experts. This indispensable business skills collection is packed with new features, practical content and inspiring guidance for readers across all stages of their careers.

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