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  Blue Blood & Mutiny - The Fight...

  Patricia Beard

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  The behind the scenes story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution. 
   
  In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. It was paid for by a cohort of eight former Morgan Stanley executives, including an ex-chairman and an ex-president, who soon would be dubbed the “Eight Grumpy Old Men.” Their target was CEO Philip Purcell, who had come to power following Morgan Stanley's 1997 merger with Dean Witter Discover. In his eight years as CEO, Purcell had presided over a 50 percent decline in stock price since its peak in 2000 and a series of high-profile government and civil lawsuits that had tarnished the company's once-sterling reputation. Just a few months after the Journal ad, Purcell would retire under pressure, and former president John Mack, who had been pushed out by Purcell, was appointed CEO. The “Eight Grumpy Old Men” won the battle. 
   
  Opening the long-closed doors of a bastion of Wall Street that has maintained the strictest privacy until now, Blue Blood and Mutiny is real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high finance. Weaving the history of Morgan Stanley with the inside story of the fight for dominance between two competing business cultures—one, the collegial meritocracy handed down from the days of J. P. Morgan, and the other, a cold, contemporary corporate model, acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard has written a must-read book for anyone who wants to understand the future of American business.

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  Lead the Change Book - The...

  Kelly Cooper

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  This book provides compelling reasons why attention to gender diversity and inclusion (GDI) is critical at this particular time in our global economy. It clearly maps out the value proposition of GDI and takes the guess work out of how to take action right now. 
  The stakes are high - both in terms of the bottom line and for our society - you need to know why. It will guide you on how to be the change, make the change-and leverage the change...into dollars. 
  A great purchase for company retreats, executive training, or any company gifting opportunity, post-secondary education courses, or for friends and family who just don't understand why this is an issue. Buy it and help transform the world on why this is needed now more than ever before. 
  This is your opportunity to be the one to make a difference as an individual and as an organization. Lead the change!

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  Project Management - The...

  Frank Allen

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  The Ultimate Guide for Managing Projects, Productivity, Profits of Enterprises, Startups and Planning with Lean, Scrum, Agile. 
  Do you want to become an expert project manager? 
  Are you interested in learning Agile, but don’t know where to start?     
  Are you tired of missing deadlines? 
  Then keep reading… 
  Project Management gives product developers and other project leaders the tools they need for a successful project. This book’s principles and techniques will guide you in creating a product roadmap, self-correcting iterations of deployable products, and preparing for a product launch. Agile approaches are critical for achieving fast and flexible product development. It’s also a useful tool for managing a range of business projects. 
  With this book, you will start from zero, and you will be able to understand how to manage your projects using an agile framework.  
  If you want to start to work with Agile methodologies, SCROLL UP and BUY NOW!

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  Project Evaluation Explained

  Can Akdeniz, Introbooks Team

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  Have you ever worked hard on planning and managing a project, as well as implementing it, only to be greeted by failure at the end of the road? If this has happened to you, and you are utterly bewildered about the cause, this is the book for you. In this book, I talk about project evaluation, which is an essential aspect that you need to know about if you want your projects to be successful. In this book, you will learn: - How to evaluate opportunities and hazards - How to evaluate your goals - How to evaluate the project plan - Impact evaluation - All about action plans - All about influence - Details about how to evaluate after ending a project If you wish to change your career for the better and become the amazing project manager that you' expectations always wanted to be, all you need to do is learn about project evaluation--and this book will help you do just that!

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  Fearless Facilitation - The...

  Cyndi Maxey, Kevin O'Connor

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  This book will help the reader plan  every meeting with AUDIENCE MINDSET top of mind, begin every  meeting with an IMMEDIATELY INVOLVING ACTIVITY or discussion that  unifies the group, locate the KEY POINTS in the meeting to  FACILITATE and INVOLVE, rather than lecture and present  information, USE EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT facilitative techniques with ANY  TYPE OF PARTICIPANT (job roles, levels, backgrounds, gender,  culture, attitude, and FOLLOW UP to every intervention with clarity  and speed.       TABLE OF CONTENTS  I.                     HEARD  ON THE STREETS (and from their seats)  Why todays  meetings are so bad and what to do about it. Why involve? Why ask?  Who cares? The psychology and group-ology of  involvement; the benefits of skilled facilitation for todays  meeting and for todays leader.  II.                  ORGANIC  FACILITATION  How to be comfortable with this new skill, how  to make it look easy, and how to be useful to the audience. Like  organic food, its less known, healthier, and takes time to  perfect, but it is the result that makes it most  valuable.  III.                THE  FOURTH WALL  To borrow from a theatrical term, allowing the  fourth wall (that invisible wall that separates the  audience from the actors). This wall also exists between presenters  and their audiences unless it is opened up through dialogue, doing  so early and often, and setting up the entire meeting for  success.  IV.               HAVE  FUN ONE BY ONE AND ONE HUNDREDUsing the experts and the  expertise among you to achieve more than before. Include and  connect and you will engage memory and action for results unheard  of in ordinary meetings.  V.                  DIALOGUE  NOT MONOLOGUE (or worse, DUALOGUE)  The accent is on how  conversation and facilitation skills intertwine, how to keep our  largely introverted professional population involved in the  conversation of the meeting purpose, and, of course, what to do  when they do talk, contribute, and even argue.  VI.               THE  SET UP  How to set up discussion topics and activities  gently, so people really do them instead of  complaining or going silent! What groups of 6 and 600 have in  common when it comes to getting involved with you. Every member of  your audience and team is a value interpreter and as such they are  the sole experts on your meeting skills and are the  ones to take the message and do something with itor  not!  VII.             LISTEN  LIVE - How to borrow from the best talk show hosts  to really listen one on one and among the group with or  without a microphone and with or without being seen.  VIII.          GO  WITH IT - As the improvisation artist learns, go with the flow   what they give you in the form of response  and feedback; how not to over-think your answers; the power of the  facilitators listening skills; the mindset of the  facilitative leader with results in mind.  IX.               ITS  ABOUT THE AUDIENCE, ALWAYS! What a 91 year old nursing home  resident knows about audience needs, and in fact what we all know  from our audience seat. Its just that we forget it all when  we step to the front of the room. How to operate from a mindset of  experience not content, how to keep the falicy of  perfection from infecting a great meeting, and how to avoid  death by committee when planning a meaningful  experience.  X.                  YIKES!  A WHOLE ROOM FULL OF  Special strategies for audiences of  one type: volunteers, one gender, culture, job role, age group, and  professional introverts!  TWO SPECIAL SECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE  BOOK:  1.       THE  COACH COMMENTS. Throughout the book a personalized  coach helps the reader with answers to common  questions, specific scenarios, and nightmare experiences from the  past. The coach is accustomed to these Ya,  but type questions and helps to clarify the text,  calm the fear, and allow the reader to take the next right step.  The coach will guide, reassure, help, and  detail.  2.       INTERVIEWS

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  The Art of Conscious...

  Chuck Wisner

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  Ditch the negative mental habits that derail conversations and destroy projects, and discover a framework for forging authentic, enduring, and productive connections. 
   
  We live in conversations like fish live in water-we're in them all the time, so we don't think about them much. As a result, we often find ourselves stuck in cyclical patterns of unproductive behaviors. We listen half-heartedly, react emotionally, and respond habitually, like we're on autopilot.  
   
  This book is a practical guide for thoughtfully reflecting on conversations so we can avoid the common pitfalls that cause our relationships and work to go sideways. Chuck Wisner identifies four universal types of conversations and offers specific advice on maximizing the effectiveness of each: 
   
  	Storytelling-Investigate the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others 
  	Collaborative-Explore the way our stories and other people's stories interact  
  	Creative-See new possibilities and discover unforeseen solutions  
  	Commitment-Make promises we know we can keep 
    
  These conversations unfold sequentially: our awareness of our and others' stories transforms our ability to listen and collaborate, which opens our thoughts to creative possibilities, guiding us toward mindful agreements.  
   
  Our conversations-at home, at work, or in public-can be sources of pleasure and stepping-stones toward success, or they can cause pain and lead to failure. Wisner shows how we can form a connection from the very first conversation and keep our discourse positive and productive throughout any endeavor.

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