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  Chase Greatness - Enlightened...

  Rajeev Kapur

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  It’s time to “Lead Forward.” 
   
  In the past, business leadership was strictly an autocratic proposition. But times have changed, and companies are just discovering they must change with them. In Chase Greatness: Enlightened Leadership for the Next Generation of Disruption, CEO Rajeev Kapur reveals how most business leadership is out of step with evolving times and values—which has negatively impacted both the effectiveness of our workforces as well as the bottom line. 
   
  The good news is it’s never too late to “Chase Greatness” in your leadership role. Kapur provides a powerful toolbox of practical advice that will enable you to not only be profitable but also reflect values that will enhance lives and make the world a better place.

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  More Than Makeup - A Guide to...

  Pat Fortenberry

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  Leadership and motivational strategies from Pat Fortenberry, a small town girl from humble beginnings that built one of the top direct sales organizations in the country and made over $16 million in the process. In More Than Makeup, Pat teaches skills for managing, motivating, leading and inspiring a sales organization as well as self improvement tools that can help anyone become a stronger leader and a better sales person.

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  If You Really Want to Change the...

  Henry Kressel, Norman Winarsky

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  Silicon Valley's latest trend for creating new ventures is based on trial and error: test market needs with new product concepts and a minimum amount of capital, expect that the product may not meet the market need, so fail fast and try another product with the hope that a product-market fit will eventually emerge. But this fail fast, step-and-pivot philosophy is like taking a random walk in the forest without a compass. If You Really Want to Change the World is about helping entrepreneurs find true north.Henry Kressel and Norman Winarsky—technologists, inventors, and investors with stellar track records—provide a guide for those who wish to create a market-leading company that will have a real impact: a disciplined and staged approach they have used to launch, invest in, and develop scores of highly successful companies.If You Really Want to Change the World leads entrepreneurs through the critical stages of venture development, from concept to acquisition or public offering to maintaining a rich culture of innovation in the company. It is a guide by innovators for innovators, with approaches that are practical and timeless.

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  Agile Product Management Box...

  Paul VII

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  In this book, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain, and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum teamFollowing this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. You will learn: What user stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects How to feel confident in writing user stories for any project What a Requirements Spec is and why they are less flexible than a product backlog built with Agile User Stories What the Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner How and when to split and amalgamate stories Techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world The difference between Epics and Themes and when each is used Who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management.

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  Fire Your Boss - Discover Work...

  Aaron McHugh

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  Fire Your Boss is the disruptive alternative blueprint for charting a new life-giving career path that gives you control, allowing you to set your own rules for your work life. Provocative, liberating, and universally appealing, Fire Your Boss seeks to help listeners resolve the deepest root of workplace unrest—namely, fear and self-preservation.This book upgrades listeners' core belief systems, demonstrates how to liberate their careers forever, and ultimately, join a heretical uprising without becoming an entrepreneur, changing jobs, or simply white-knuckling their way to retirement.Aaron McHugh maps out how to make philosophical, emotional, tactical, and heart-centered shifts at every intersection on the career journey. Firing your boss does not require you to leave to your job. Firing your boss does not require you to start a new business. Firing your boss becomes the life-altering daily mantra that transforms the disengaged into hopeful leaders.Discover how to plot a new course of career freedom and independence, empowerment, and self-reliance. Find your smile again, rekindle your mojo, recapture the art of your work, and start enjoying your work every single day.

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  How Did That Happen? - Holding...

  Roger Connors, Tom Smith

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  Roger Connors and Tom Smith literally wrote the book on accountability. Their bestseller The Oz Principle has sold more than 500,000 copies in several editions since 1994.As they've worked with thousands of clients over two decades through their firm, Partners in Leadership, the authors have developed new strategies for holding people accountable while building morale. They offer powerful steps to establish a positive "Accountability Connection," rather than waiting to place blame after problems arise and people fail to deliver. Drawing on case studies, many from client companies, the authors show how to establish clear expectations and manage the unmet expectations that inevitably occur. And they offer a positive, principled way that engages hearts and minds.This book can help people at every level—from senior executives to front-line workers—enjoy greater productivity, profitability, and job satisfaction.

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