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Learn the nuts and bolts of scrum--its framework, roles, team structures, ceremonies, and artifacts--from the scrum master's perspective.

The Art of Scrum details the scum master's responsibilities and core functions in planning and facilitating the ceremonies and artifacts of a scrum team: sprint planning, sprint execution, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. It analyzes the scrum master's interactions with other scrum roles, including the product owner, development team members, other scrum masters, and the agile coach.

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Prove It is the executive guide to improving organisational performance through the practice of evidence-based leadership. More than ever before, the world is demanding transparency and accountability from organisational leaders, and there is a growing push to hold leaders responsible for the performance of their organisation. Many executives panic at the thought of what transparency might reveal and how they might be held accountable, but others relish the opportunity to showcase their organisation's performance. The...

Winning Wizard's Words of Management Wisdom - Book 2: Moving Up is the third book in the author's Winning Wizard series. and is the continuation of management wisdom dispensed from a mentor to a mentee.

The book follows Winning Wizard, a retired chairman of an international organization in his mission to provide insight, advice, and guidance to Redael (leader spelled backwards), a junior manager in the firm intent on advancing to the upper reaches of management.

The book's 49 chapters offer incisive, trenchant, and thought-provoking precepts to help Redael climb the...

Leadership from the Inside Out is a prescient work built on timeless, enduring principles. The first edition, published almost twenty years ago, turned leadership development inside out. Kevin Cashman's core premise, grow the whole person to grow the whole leader, was a radical departure from traditional leadership books--it was one of the first to connect personal development with leadership transformation.

Since then this book has sold more than 180,000 copies worldwide and has been adopted as a core text in...

Running a business means making smart decisions about strategies, processes, and people. You name it, you're responsible for it.

Tmima Grinvald, a certified professional coach and former military officer, helps you make business decisions that will pay off big. Just as important, she walks you through how to fix costly mistakes that hurt morale and erode profits. In seventy-three focus lessons, you'll learn skills such as how to:

- improve your crisis management skills;
- master the core skills that mean the most;
- sustain a consistent level of performance; and...

If you want to make positive changes in your professional or personal life this book is for you.

You may be at a career crossroads, lacking direction, struggling in a new job, or wanting to make a change. Perhaps you're getting fantastic results but know you could do better. Or maybe you lead others who are facing challenges and you want a simple approach to help and inspire them.

Own It will introduce you to Sandra Webber's simple, yet powerful, 4-step GAME framework which will give you the power to set big goals, maintain motivation and take consistent action.

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This book introduces readers to the moral dilemmas associated with business decisions, helping students to understand the moral and ethical considerations leaders face in the workplace, and providing a framework for balancing business demands with doing the right thing.

The author walks readers through the basics of Western moral philosophy before the 20^th century and beyond it, covering Utilitarianism, Universalism, the Golden Rule, and Virtue Ethics as well as compelling Eastern moral philosophy to help readers link individual behavior to the larger scheme of...

This book introduces readers to the moral dilemmas associated with business decisions, helping students to understand the moral and ethical considerations leaders face in the workplace, and providing a framework for balancing business demands with doing the right thing.

The author walks readers through the basics of Western moral philosophy before the 20^th century and beyond it, covering Utilitarianism, Universalism, the Golden Rule, and Virtue Ethics as well as compelling Eastern moral philosophy to help readers link individual behavior to the larger scheme of...

Geri McArdle Ph.D. has spent more than 20 years as a successful educator, consultant, and master trainer in the United States and abroad. The openers and closers she shares here for meetings are designed to break the ice among participants, promote team building, offer focus for the proceedings, and wrap up in fitting ways. Whether you’re a professional trainer, corporate manager, educator or workshop leader in a non-profit organization, these tips are excellent tools for getting your meetings off to a rousing start and bring them to a memorable conclusion.

In this book, Adonal Foyle presents seven matrices: Personal, Professional Sports, Family, Financial, Public, Charity, and Post-Career. The overall takeaway is that he wants athletes to appreciate what they already do on a day-to-day basis. By managing numerous elements of their lives, they are already doing the work of an Athlete CEO. It is the author’s hope that in reading this book athletes will recognize that they are indeed a small business.

Every Athlete CEO has a tremendous amount of cachet that he brings with him by virtue of being a professional in his particular...