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  Going Lean - How the Best...

  Stephen A. Ruffa

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  In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way. Drawing from the lessons of a new breed of companies that have stood apart, it sets aside the notion that efficient operations and powerful innovations are possible only when business is steady and demand is growing. By using lean dynamics-based on principles from the now-famous Toyota Production System-it shows how companies everywhere can thrive across a broad range of changing conditions. In Going Lean, you will learn how to:  
  set a critical foundation for achieving sustained excellence • identify sources of lag and create robust value streams that thrive in today's dynamic conditions • describe the underlying techniques to maintain steady and predictable flow • create a system driven by customer demand that consistently introduces new innovation even during downturns • strive for perfection • deliver industry-leading returns 
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  The 7 Pillars of Successful...

  Thomas Reus

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  Power -- a word we all know and by which we can imagine what lies behind this term. Power - the majority of people want it, but not everyone knows how to achieve it. Power - has seven important pillars and can have both positive and negative effects for the powerful and the powerless. I would like to provide you with knowledge about power that you will not find anywhere else in such detail. I will also show you why hardly anyone can really handle power. If you want to gain power, you cannot avoid the seven pillars.This book will teach you what true power is and what it means. You will learn that you have a great deal of potential within you to make full use of power. With theoretical models that are so unique that you could call them a secret weapon, you will learn how to successfully assess yourself and your environment. This book can also help you to reflect on yourself using many examples and exercises. So that you can benefit to the full in both your private and professional life, you will learn what alternative courses of action are available to you.The seven pillars are never considered individually, as they are a system that builds on, complements and depends on each other. It is therefore important that you are guided by the structure of the book as you read it.

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  Silos Politics and Turf Wars - A...

  Patrick Lencioni

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  "Silos" are organizations' vertical structures, but the word has become synonymous with barriers to workplace effectiveness and connotes deep political infighting. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. They cause stress, exasperation, and disappointment by forcing employees to fight bloody, unwinnable battles with people who should be teammates.Like his other fables, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars is fiction in realistic form, involving not one—but three organizations—all struggling to eliminate their silos and bridge a sense of alignment back in place.This audio comes with a bonus interview and introduction read by the author.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Insights on John C Maxwell's The...

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  The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (2012) by John C. Maxwell is a self-help book designed to help readers understand their strengths, follow their passions, and seize every opportunity for personal and professional development. Everyone has a natural capacity for growth, but that capacity must be recognized and consciously developed… 
    
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  Business Teamwork

  RWG Publishing

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  Andrew Carnegie once said teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives it is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. An organization's ability to succeed hinges on teamwork the ability of your people to act together augment and accommodate each other's strengths weaknesses and specialties is vital to the accomplishment of your mission they must have a shared vision shared focus and mutual trust but how do you get your team to the point where they're able to embody these ideals. How do you truly leverage the power of teamwork in the workplace. In this course we're going to show you exactly how to do that.

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  Agile Project Management - Learn...

  Jeff Branson

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  Learn the Most Important Concepts and Tools of Agile Project ManagementThings You Will LearnLearn the fundamentals of Agile Project ManagementLearn how to use agile for the right projects.You will learn the key concepts of Agile Development, Agile Project Delivery and Agile Project ManagementYou will understand the differences between Agile and traditional project delivery (other methodologies)Understand the impact that Agile and Lean are having on the project management professionUnderstand common problems that can cause an enterprise-level Agile transformation to fail and how to avoid them 
  This book aims to help people who are looking for successful project management strategies that they can implement with their own team. 
  Contrary to popular belief, Agile is not a methodology but a philosophy that anyone can subscribe to if he wants his project to succeed. Many project managers use it and swear of its effectiveness in ensuring that the whole project is a success. Although commonly used in IT projects, the agile project management is applicable to all projects.You will be prepared to apply Agile to your projectsYou will be able to speak about Agile with confidence.You will understand the difference between Agile and other methodologiesYou will learn why Agile isn't only for IT or Tech projects but it's actually applied across many industries worldwideYou will get tools and tips

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