Co-Design, Volume I: Practical Ideas for Learning Across Complex Systems

Co-Design, Volume I: Practical Ideas for Learning Across Complex Systems

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Learning is fundamental to living and organizing in complex systems. This book provides a guide to co-designing learn- ing environments and relationships. The authors begin by revisiting what learning means in living systems. Their experiences with business organizations and formal education systems have led to the conclusion that learning has been lost from view in many complex systems.
The authors briefly trace the history of ideas about learning to give new energy and focus for co-designing learning places. The 12 thematic chapters in this book focus on practical ideas. Each chapter centers on a theme that is explored through a collection of short pieces—presented as ideas, theories, stories, approaches, and methods. This book will benefit a multitude of people and professionals who are interested in new ways to think about learning, both individually and collectively-it was written with a diverse readership in mind.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 3: Tears

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 3: Tears

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 2 : Sweat

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 2 : Sweat

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume I: Blood

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume I: Blood

$21.99

What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Co-Design, Volume III: Practical Ideas for Developing Across Complex Systems

Co-Design, Volume III: Practical Ideas for Developing Across Complex Systems

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Working in complex systems brings fresh challenges to leaders, managers, consultants, and those involved in their education. This book (the third in a series of three) introduces a set of practices that will help you develop confidence and strength in working in new ways across boundaries. We know intuitively that when we move outside our organizational boundaries, we need new ways of practicing that will respond to the needs of others and shape the emerging future. Each chapter focuses on a specific practice and explains what it looks like, why it is relevant, and how to integrate it into your work. Questions for reflection and suggested activities offer ideas for immediate action.
The format invites the reader to pick a chapter or two when it feels like a good time to engage with professional development. The material is also suitable for discussion with colleagues as part of team development. The practical, applied nature of this book means that it can be used in many different ways to spark ideas and stimulate new ways of working as individuals and collectively. Leaders in complex systems will grow in confidence and expand their practice repertoire as they engage with the material in this volume

Leveraging Business Analysis for Product Success, Second Edition

Leveraging Business Analysis for Product Success, Second Edition

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Only 39 percent of projects today are successful. Nearly half of the projects that fail do so because of “poor requirements management” (PMI 2014). Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success, Second Edition explores the role of the business analyst in setting a project up for success. It informs and educates project managers, sponsors, and organization leaders on what is necessary for project success. This book goes beyond requirements management in exploring how business analysis professionals (business analysts, product managers, product owners, and others) can con- tribute to increased profitability through project selection, scope definition, and post implementation evaluation.
The reader will learn about the history of business analysis, professional organizations and resources to support the profession, and what to expect from the business analysis professional at each phase of the project lifecycle as presented in a case study throughout the book. Project leaders will better be able to support the business analysis needs of the project by understanding the skills, expertise, tasks, resources, and time needed to do business analysis right and maximize the return on investment for each project.

Agile Working and the Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Designing and Implementing Productivity

Agile Working and the Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Designing and Implementing Productivity

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Amid a myriad of competitive pressures for both customers and talent, ‘Agile Working and the Digital Workplace’ is essential reading for any organisation that aspires to build and secure its competitive advantage. John has mapped out the benefits and routes to achieving a more agile organisation. The complexity of such a significant cross-functional, cultural shift in performance and productivity is addressed with the benefit of John’s great experience.

Bryan Thomas, Workplace Strategist, CPB Projects Ltd

Organizations are increasingly adopting new ways of working to take advantage of new digital technologies to enhance the services they can offer and become more productive. This book defines and explains the different terms that are used to describe new ways of working and identifies the benefits and limitations of different approaches. Readers will learn about the key components of successful agile working and how a holistic approach is needed for the successful implementation of agile working.
The author provides advice on the introduction of new ways of working, including preparing a robust business case, setting up an agile working program, and providing a road map. The contributions of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to the digital workspace and agile working are assessed.

Project-Based Learning: How to Approach, Report, Present, and Learn from Course-Long Projects

Project-Based Learning: How to Approach, Report, Present, and Learn from Course-Long Projects

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Project-based learning is different from traditional lectures and requires students to behave different from the traditional classroom. This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form. Different types of projects such as projects that contribute to theory and projects that contribute to practice are covered, to explain to students what to expect, how to approach the project, how to interact with students in groups, and how to interact with the instructor. The discussion includes many useful examples.

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams

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Check out the Powerpoint slides and the below video, the authors have prepared to give you better insight into this book.

Everyone has talents and strengths. Everyone does projects.

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams integrates common project management and strengths-based talent development language to help you and your project team learn about and become a strengths-based project team.

This book is designed for project managers, team members, and stakeholders who have an interest in talent development— not only their own talents and strengths, but also the combined talents and strengths of their project teams.

Readers will learn about the characteristics of a strengths-based project team and how to apply a series of building blocks for individual and team strengths-based development. Through exercises, templates, action plans, and reflective questions, learn how to cultivate the collective strengths of project team members to become a strengths-based project team.

Explore the various project management roles for sustaining a strengths-based project team culture. Create an environment in which team members can use their talent development tools long-term to develop and apply what they naturally do best–resulting in higher project team performance.

Escape from the Central Bank Trap: How to Escape From the $20 Trillion Monetary Expansion Unharmed, Second Edition

Escape from the Central Bank Trap: How to Escape From the $20 Trillion Monetary Expansion Unharmed, Second Edition

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“Lacalle is one of the leading next generation economists who can simplify the complex. His teachings come from a market practitioner’s perspective. This book is about the economic truth.” —Keith R. McCullough, Chief Executive Officer, Hedgeye Risk Management

“A penetrating framework for understanding the co-dependencies among monetary policy, the economy and the financial markets. Lacalle provides us with a road map that anyone who cares about long term economic health can grab hold of.” —Michael Purves, Chief Global Strategist, WEEDEN & CO

Central banks do not print growth. The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. The same policies that created each subsequent bust are the ones that have been implemented in recent years. This book is about realistic solutions for the threat of zero-interest rates and excessive liquidity.

The United States needs to take the first step, defending sound money and a balanced budget, recovering the middle class by focusing on increasing disposable income. The rest will follow. Our future should not be low growth and high debt. Cheap money becomes very expensive in the long run. There is an escape from the central bank trap.