A Seat at the Table is a must read for IT managers and CIOs who are looking to integrate IT practices as a dynamic actor for their business, which in today's digital world is needed more than ever before. This book looks at the impact of agile and lean thinking, DevOps, Lean Startup, and other contemporary management ideas to define the new role ......
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
When she launched the worlds first social stock exchange, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism means changing how systems work--and who they work for. In these pages Shahnaz offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of financial systems.
School leadership is the best job in the world, despite being frustrating, exhausting and at times utterly bamboozling. We are required to change our focus frequently and immediately, planning for the next five years one minute, dealing with the next five seconds the next. We manage multi-million-pound budgets and we pick up crisp packets.
Intelligent Accountability discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone's fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended systemic flaws).
The EVOLVING framework for health, social care and education professionals
Leadership in the caring professions presents unique challenges, as teams are expected to balance the dual pressures of organisational requirements and empathetic responses to clients' and patients' needs. The tried-and-tested EVOLVING framework offers a psychologically-responsive approach to leadership, allowing you to provide effective support ......
Together is better, but only if you turn up and lean in.
High performing teams are Curious, Connected and Calm. Theyre teams in synergy, where independent thinkers work together to leverage collective capacity.
We need to rethink our approach to work, leadership and teams. This book is designed to allow you to become more effective and more human at work, in both team and leadership positions. Through introspection and an awareness of our personality and character, The Work Revolution helps you develop practical tools and techniques to build a healthy ......
Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture
Agile Conversations brings an updated, practical, step-by-step guide to using the power of conversation to build effective, high-performing teams to achieve truly Agile results.
Are you a business owner, leader or entrepreneur... Who finds managing others hard and stressful? Or maybe managing you is your biggest challenge? If you currently lead a team, often knowing how to motivate and engage them is really hard. Some people just don't behave as you expect, some don't work well with others, some don't like ......
