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Success Principles of Ratan Tata by Vinod Sharma is an inspiring biography of Ratan Tata, one of India's most respected business leaders. The audiobook provides a deep dive into his achievements, life lessons, wisdom, and strategies for success, showcasing how he built the Tata Group into a global giant. It is an ideal read for aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals.

You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do.

Interest in applying analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to sales and marketing has grown dramatically, with no signs of slowing down. This book provides essential guidance to apply advanced analytics and data mining techniques to real-world business applications.

The role of project manager requires maintaining a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team, and the organization. This provides a real challenge in the fields of time management and prioritization. Successful Project Management covers the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion, and contains tested and tried techniques on managing stake holders, effective risk management, project planning, launch, and execution. This fifth edition contains new features including summary points at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms.

Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility leads to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to bridge the gap and engage the upper ranks. By thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress, project managers win the support they need - especially critical when problems arise.

Franklin Covey experts Kory Kogon and Suzette Blakemore understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. This updated and revised edition of Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the people and project management Initiate Plan Execute Monitor.

Communications Skills for Project Managers provides practical advice and strategies for ensuring success, even in the face of shifting organizational priorities, constantly evolving expectations, and leadership turnover. This important guide gives listeners the skills they need to keep everyone in the loop.

Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.

Research indicates that emotional intelligence (EI) accounts for an astonishing 70-80 percent of management success. Technical expertise just isn't enough anymore: Project managers need strong interpersonal skills and the ability to recognize emotional cues in order to lead their teams to success. Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers introduces listeners to all facets of EI and shows how emotions can be leveraged to meet project goals.

Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics.

This easy-to-understand practical guidebook is focused on mindset, skillset and toolset for running meetings with step-by-step guides on various techniques.

You may be a project manager or a stakeholder with "street smarts". Maybe you have expertise in the nuts and bolts of project execution. Or you might be a "book smart" expert on the rules and tools of the trade. Whatever your strengths, most project managers agree it's a juggling act to balance people and processes. Nearly every project requires a balance of both practical and conceptual skills. Now you can fill in the gaps to gain a perfect balance of the two.

Managing projects effectively and on time can be tough. But how would you like a system to manage several projects at once, and bring in all of them on time and on budget? What if you could clearly identify your priorities and consistently meet your deadlines? What if factoring in your hard-won wisdom and keenest insights suddenly became systematic for you? How would you like to have more work/life balance, and even be able to go home on time? It's no pipe dream - now you can!

Few things are as fundamental in business as communication. At a time when routines are being displaced by automation and everything is just "a project," employees often feel uninformed, and companies feel like piles of chaos. Face-to-face meetings, emails, and phone calls are holding the enterprise together in a makeshift way, as if tied together with twine. Internal politics is not only the order of the day, but a fundamental tool for effectiveness. Board members as well as employees who simply want to get meaningful work done are becoming more and more frustrated.

Si estás gestionando tu primer proyecto o simplemente estás cansado de improvisar, la Guía HBR Gestión de Proyectos te proporcionará las herramientas y la confianza que necesitas para definir y alcanzar objetivos inteligentes, y te enseñará a aprovechar las lecciones aprendidas para mejorar el desarrollo de futuros proyectos.

Arbeiten in agilen Teams und flachen Hierarchien ist toll und schafft Freiräume, die in klassischen Strukturen oft fehlen. Dass in agilen Strukturen zugleich große Herausforderungen lauern können, erfahren Mitarbeiter*innen und Führungskräfte spätestens dann, wenn Entscheidungen getroffen werden müssen. Wen beziehe ich ein, wen nicht? Welche Aspekte müssen berücksichtigt werden? Und nicht zuletzt: Darf, kann und sollte ich das überhaupt selbst entscheiden?

You are on a Scrum Team with a problem. You need some changes to the data base behind the application you are creating, but the tables are controlled by another team, they are busy with their own priorities and do not want to help. What should you do? This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.

You are a Scrum Master and you are joining an existing team. There is a problem, though. The Product Owner is unhappy. There is a high priority item on the Product Backlog that the developers are refusing to add to their Sprint. They say that Scrum gives them the right to choose the work they do, and they claim the so called "high priority" item is not very important at all.

Menschen abholen, mitnehmen und mitreißen - mit Agilität durch den eigenen Workshop. Erinnern Sie sich mit Grausen an die unerträglich langen, schläfrigen Stunden, die Ihnen schon als Workshop verkauft wurden? Wo man vor Langeweile und Trockenheit den Staub der nicht vergehen wollenden Zeit schon in der Luft schmeckte? Jetzt können Sie es besser machen: Es ist Ihr Workshop, Ihre Bühne - reißen Sie Ihre Teilnehmer von der ersten Sekunde an mit und sorgen Sie mit Flexibilität und Elan dafür, dass sie Ihnen bis zur letzten Sekunde folgen.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à diriger efficacement un projet ! Comment s'organiser convenablement lorsque l'on se retrouve à la tête d'un projet, afin de le mener à terme avec succès ? Cette question, chacun est amené à se la poser un jour ou l'autre, que ce soit dans le professionnel ou dans le privé, pour un projet personnel qui nous tient à cœur ou pour une mission confiée par un supérieur. La réponse n'est pas évidente et peut varier en fonction de la situation, mais de grands principes généraux peuvent tout de même être dégagés.