His encounters at Emperor Akbar`s Court are legendary.Birbal`s close friendship with Akbar earned him many enemies. Birbal survived countless murder attempts.Numerous stories have been spun around these plots.These stories were passed on from generation to generation. And the legend of Birbal grew.Unicorn Books presents 50 Birbal stories in this collection for children.Some Interesting Tales:*Akbar and Birbal`s First Meeting*Pulling the Emperor`s Whiskers*The Egg Trick*Stone Flowers versus Real ones*How to retrieve a ring*Unlucky ProfessionsAbout the author:Clifford Sawhney, has over 20 years experience in the print media, corporate communications and publishing industry.His writings have appeared in the Hindustan Times, Discover India, Life Positive, Parade, Parenting, Clarity, Debonair, Hotel & Food Service, Rave, e-Commerce, The Diplomatist, Training & Management and other periodicals.This book is his second venture for Unicorn Books after The Funniest Tales of Mullah Nasruddin.

    Billions of dollars were at stake.At the heart of the battle were two men: Guy Dollé, Chairman and CEO of Luxembourg-based Arcelor, the world's largest steel producer by turnover and Lakshmi Mittal, a self-made Indian industrialist and the richest man in Great Britain. Only one could prevail . . .

    He shows how to manage your own psychology and your operations, be it working with co-founders, building a culture, or managing a board of directors. Brian also reveals the secrets of scaling a business and best practices for raising venture capital in Latin America. You will develop an understanding of the most critical parts of an investor term sheet, and gain perspective into the inner workings of the venture capital game.

    

    If youve ever wanted to attend a David Allen seminar but could not, this is the next best thing. GTDLive is our brand new audio of a full 2-day seminar - packed with insights, tips, and practical applications on GTD or Getting Things Done in a way that only David can tell you. This is a great value at over 50% off the cost of just a one-day seminar! With GTDLive, you receive this recording of a full 2-day seminar that you can listen to over and over again anywhere, anytime. Getting Things Done Live reveals powerful techniques for processing everything in your personal and workplace environments. From email, paperwork, and voice mails to tasks, commitments, and internal thinking.Major topics of the seminar include:Mastering the Five Stages of Workflow;The Productive Experience;Keys to Collecting and Processing your Stuff;Project Thinking;Organizing Email and Filing Systems;Dealing with Procrastination and Setting Priorities; Planning and the Power of Focus; Establishing Your Ideal Scene, Successful OutcomeThe set contains approximately 9 ½ hours of audio recorded live at a large southern California University. It is packaged in a handsome 10-CD boxed set. GTD System Guides; the core principles of GTD, referenced in the recording, are presented on laminated cards for easy reference.

    It is written for people and teams working within an agile software development context.The pages within only depict examples. Nothing else. No deep theoretical explanations. No explanation of Agile or Scrum. No references to Gamification. No discussion on how the brain interprets visual input or how our behaviors are influenced by visual information. There are other books written on those topics.The examples in this book might be perceived as if they are the best and only way of doing things. Of course that is not true. The examples are not best practice. They are only suggestions. You need to adapt them to your team’s context and needs.This book is not intended to be read cover to cover. Browse. Jump back and forth. Pick what you like. Combine the ideas whichever way you find useful. Experiment and evaluate. Evolve or throw away.

    Tony Robbins, who has been paid more than $1 Million for his personal coaching by international leaders and the world's top power brokers, uses the strategies of Mastering Influence in his own business. So no matter how much you have already achieved, Mastering Influence will help you get even more out of your business and your life.

    

    Create targeted development plans.Each chapter is dedicated to one of the 38 Korn Ferry Leadership ArchitectTM competencies, as well as chapters on 10 career stallers and stoppers. In these chapters you'll find:Competency definitions(CARS) - skilled, less skilled, talented and overused skill contentPossible causes of lower skillTips to develop each competencyJob assignmentsSuggested readings, deep dive learning links and recommended search terms

    

    

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    The Certified B Corporation, benefit corporation and Conscious Capitalism movements all reflect a global shift in business consciousness from an egocentric focus on profits to an altruistic, triple bottom line orientation that balances the interests of the environment, society and shareholders. The economic data suggests that businesses built this way outperform their conventional peers. Great from the Start not only sets the context for a more sustainable and humane economic system like Conscious Capitalism, Firms of Endearment, the B Corporation Handbook and Reinventing Organizations but also shows you how to build a purposeful and soulful business that is a force for good, With this book, you can create a business that reflects your values, embodies the tenets of Conscious Capitalism as a Certified B Corporation and acts appropriately as a responsible global citizen. Finally, if you are a leader who aspires to operate from the heart, believes in abundance and plays power with instead of power over, Great from the Start suggests how you can leverage neuroscience and the science of consciousness to inspire and lead your corporation so that it is optimized for the people that work there.In Great from the Start, John Montgomery brings three decades of experience as one of California’s preeminent corporate lawyers to offer the business secrets of Silicon Valley as an essential blueprint for any entrepreneur wishing to start a successful company. As counsel and trusted adviser to almost 1,000 startups and dozens of venture capital firms, he developed this blueprint from working with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and stress tested it with dozens of startups and his law firm, Montgomery & Hansen, LLP. From raising venture capital to building a balanced team, from designing your culture to managing a board of directors, this book will help you experience the joy of building a successful company.

    

    

    Endowed with unlimited power and insight, his spiritual power was so mighty that his gentlest suggestion was to those who heard it, a word of command. This volume is a revised edition of the The Eternal Companion contains practical and insightful instructions enabling success in spiritual life to the sincere aspirant.

    Wait, but isn’t that what Agile is all about? Yes, but we want to take you further than the standard, classic Agile techniques that you already probably embraced (at least partially). We are talking about soft skills and technical procedures, because both of them can bring you benefits when applied properly.

    

    The book also contains QR codes that link to 40 specially edited videos, providing around 400 minutes of historic footage that elucidate the text.

    It is a force multiplier that makes your marketing more effective and justifies higher rates. But it involves risk.The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms is the only step-by-step manual to help you move from struggling generalist to in-demand specialist with minimum risk and maximum speed.

    It’s not about pleasing people, and it’s certainly not about titles. Great leadership is about making the contribution only you can make for your family and friends, your community or organization, your country or the world. But having that influence requires us to “grow into-and take ownership of-who we are and what we stand for.” The journey isn’t automatic. Leadership maturity isn’t the natural byproduct of aging. It requires wisdom, courage and effort. Too many people find themselves stuck under the weight of their circumstances, so they don’t realize their potential. Based in decades of research on adult development, The Map explains how we can take control of our growth and accelerate progress in leadership, life, and legacy.

    But they lack the solid foundations that will allow you to start at the beginning and will enable to to successfully adopt OKR.I wrote this guide for first-time OKR users, but in my experience many long-time OKR users also find it valuable. Many of them lack the proper concepts to win with OKR.My advice is that you should read this guide cover-to-cover, as each section builds upon the previous ones. Reading it from start to finish will help you understand how the different OKR building blocks fit together and why OKR has been successfully adopted by great companies such as Google, Spotify, Twitter, Airbnb and LinkedIn.

    Hyper-productive teams and organizations have always existed, both in the business and military fields. Naturally, they are rare statistical outliers. The main focus of this book is how one can build and manage a hyper-productive knowledge-work organization, by taking as a source of inspiration the experience matured in the field of software engineering. Software development organizations — like Microsoft, Google, Oracle; but also high profile open source organizations like Apache, Ubuntu, Drupal and others — can be considered as archetypal knowledge­based organizations, because the totality of artifacts produced by a software business is purely immaterial. Software development organizations were the first one to confront the challenges of completely immaterial processes, entirely based on knowledge. They were also the first organizations to experience the socio-technological impact of information technology (especially the development of computer networks) on their internal work processes and organizational structures. Due to its frantic and exponential pace of innovation, the field of software development also became a testbed for a variety of approaches and methods for managing immaterial knowledge work, typically under the form of software development processes and methodologies. Numerous alternatives evolved over a relatively short period, with a lot of healthy competition in between them; with vehement “holy wars” between proponents of one approach or another; and with many anecdotes about both successes and failures. Valuable insights can be gained by studying the organizational and managerial approaches successfully adopted by the industry that produced the information revolution — that is, those organizations that engage first hand in software development — and then by extrapolating those organizational and managerial processes to the more general case of knowledge­based organizations. Nowadays, the majority of organizations have become knowledge-based. Even the most resilient and traditional "brick­ and ­mortar" businesses are forced to become knowledge­based organizations. For instance, consider the impact of large­scale 3D printing on the construction industry ("Contour Crafting"), where bricks and mortar literally become software. Or nanoscale technologies, where manufacturing at the sub-atomic level becomes software. The key tenet of this book is that organizational hyper-productivity stems from the two Noble Patterns of "Unity of Purpose" and "Community of Trust." The leaders and the top executives of the organization play a critical role in creating the conditions for these patterns to become effective. Management must play an active role in leading the organization towards these conditions. In the case of software (and knowledge) organizations, management will have to gain a deep understanding of the nature of software or knowledge work; and that nature is rooted in empiricism. Top executives already have that understanding; though they might not be aware of it, and – unfortunately – do not act consequently. Management must create the conditions for the development of a learning organization. Financial responsibility must be exercised differently, and in way that is compatible with the empirical nature of knowledge work. Key roles must be nurtured, while each team needs to develop their own shared vision of their purpose. Practical help comes from many sources, and we will look specifically, into like: Kanban, Scrum and the Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints nurtures Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust in many ways. In particular, the Theory of Constraints squarely addresses the need to arrive at common metrics by which all and everybody are driven; and overcomes the structural impediments (rooted in the use of cost accounting and efficiency metrics for management purposes) which are the sources of divergence of purpose and hidden agendas. Kanban and Scrum are widely used in modern knowledge work businesses. The Theory of Constraint can extend them in powerful ways, bringing more predictability of behavior of the system as a whole, as well as of the individuals. Their combination becomes a powerful breeding ground for the development of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust. Both Kanban and Scrum can be extended with features of the Theory of Constraint, and help creating a hyper-productive organization. The book will present practical ways by which such combination might be realized.

    The Mission of the Church of Scientology is a simple one -- to help the individual achieve greater self-confidence and personal integrity, thereby enabling him to really trust and respect himself and his fellow man. The attainment of the benefits and goals of Scientology requires each individual's positive participation, as only through his own efforts can he achieve these.

    

     What You Do Is Who You Are [Hardcover]: The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them – yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation. High Output Management: The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be summed up in a single word: managing. Born of Grove's experiences at one of America's leading technology companies, High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers, as well as CEOs and startup founders.

    Brian DesRoches brilliantly and clearly articulates why the workplace so frequently feels more like a playpen--and shows how we can apply the most current techniques of systems therapy to cure the dysfunctional office.

    It is a comprehensive text book which provides a good coverage of the fundamentals of management. The discussion on various chapters has been done in a simple and easy to understand manner keeping the students of commerce and management in view. The salient features of this book are: A wider coverage of the syllabi of BA/B.Com. (Corporate Secretaryship), B.Com., BBA and BISM of Madras University, Bharathiar University, Bharathidasan University, Anna University, Alagappa University and Pondicherry University (both regular and correspondence). The book is covering the syllabus of M.Com. /MBA/MA Corporate Secretaryship of various universities in TamilNadu. It covers Master of Management Programmes as well as Post-graduate Management Diploma programmes of distance education, Pondichery University. The explanation of various management principles and practices in a very comprehensive manner. The book has the unique feature of dealing with case studies of BBA and MBA programmes. About The Author: Dr. M. Sakthivel Murugan is a Reader and Head, Department of Corporate Secretaryship and Business Administration, D.B. Jain College, Thorapakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu under Madras University. He has completed 25 years of teaching in BA Corporate Secretaryship/BBA/M.Com/MBA and other professional courses such as CA, CS and ICWA. He has been awarded Accredited Management Teacher by All India (AIMA) Management Association, New Delhi. He is doing research projects sponsored by UGC and other bodies. He is guiding research students of Commerce and Manag

    

    

    

    

    The book consists of excerpts from J.R.D. Tata's speeches and Chairman's statements to shareholders make over a period exceeding fifty years. In the opening section, J.R.D. Tata looks back over the eventful decades of his life from the 1920s till the 1980s. The middle section of the book consists of his thinking on economic matters, on industry, on planning and human relations. The section 'A Strategy for Survival' includes his views on the population explosion and the Presidential System, on which he was a pioneering spokesman. In 'The Emerging Society' he looks forward to the evolving polity of the twenty-first century.

    

    In fact, the increasingly common cost-cutting practice of outsourcing development to external organizations supports an opposite view. To some extent, the adoption of agile has supported this perception gap.Organizational agility is often thought of as the practices used by individual teams and the techniques used to coordinate work across those teams. In some cases, focus is on improving practices without fully considering why those practices are being used in the first place. For instance, Scrum Teams monitor success by delivering potentially shippable Increments of work, but do those Increments contribute to the value of the overall organization?Without measuring value, the success of any agile initiative is based on nothing more than intuition and assumption. Scrum.org’s Evidence-Based Management for Software Organizations (EBMgtTM) approach measures value as evidence of organizational agility. This approach enables software organizations to make rational, fact-based decisions, elevating conversations from preferences and opinions to logic and insight.

    Description:- StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now Discover Your Strengths DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: A Landmark Study of Great Leaders, Teams, and the Reasons Why We Follow From the author of the long-running number 1 bestseller "StrengthsFinder 2.0" comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow. Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket How Full Is Your Bucket? shows how even the smallest interactions we have with others every day profoundly affect our relationships, productivity, health and longevity. Coauthor Donald O. Clifton studied the effects of positive and negative emotions for half a century, and he and his colleagues interviewed millions of people around the world. Their discoveries contributed to the emergence of an entirely new field: Positive Psychology. These same discoveries are at the heart of How Full Is Your Bucket?

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    Clearly, this Action Deck is not something you'd leave collecting dust in a bookshelf; it's a practical tool, designed to work side-by-side and help you achieve tangible results when and where you need them most. It fits easily in your pocket and it's crafted with smooth-finish casino-quality card stock for maximum portability and durability.The front of each card features a set of thought-provoking questions which will help you frame problems with improved clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and significance. A cartoon on the opposite side further illustrates each concept vividly.Cards are organized into 10 sections that will guide you through an effective improvement sequence. An additional Mentoring section will help you throughout the sequence to review your work, probe other people's thinking and engage them in powerful conversations.The deck will likely more than pay for itself with your first improvement. It is based on the author's years of hard-won experience in deploying the A3 Thinking management process originated in Toyota and adopted by Lean organizations in different industries worldwide. The approach directs people's behavior towards gaining deeper insights about problems, expanding their circle of influence, raise visibility within their organizations, continuously improve, and more.The A3 Thinker Action Deck is an ideal companion for individuals, managers, teams, change agents, sales people, entrepreneurs, and everyone else who'd like to move from where they are to where they need to be.

    Various textbooks cover well the science part – the methodologies, tools, templates and techniques for planning and running projects. This represents the ‘hard skills’ side of project management. The textbook in front of you focuses, uniquely, on the art and leadership aspects – working with people, teams and organizations to achieve project success. This represents the ‘soft skills’ side of project management. Increasingly, leadership is considered to account for the difference between project success and failure in many instances. It includes being a good team leader, of course, but also a role model, an influencer with stakeholders, an entrepreneur, a cheerleader and project change agent. It requires superior soft skills in communications, inspiration, conflict management, influence and organizational change management, among others. It is built on a foundation of ethics and integrity. It depends on insight into the organizational strategy, structure and culture. All of this and more is covered in this textbook. This textbook is designed to make you a stronger, more effective project leader. It includes activities, organization snapshots, tools, review questions and other resources to help you understand, practice and apply the concepts and approaches presented. The second edition introduces various additions and improvements in the content, an expanded set of resources, additional research perspectives and colour illustrations. It has also been updated to be consistent with the Project Management Institute’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th Edition.

    

    

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    A practical guide for new and experienced tech leads to increase their confidence, effectiveness, and impact

    Flexible working hours and distributed teams are replacing decades of on-site, open-plan office culture. Wherever you work from nowadays, your colleagues are likely to be somewhere else. No more whiteboards. No more water coolers. And certainly no Ping-Pong. So how can you organize yourself, ship software, communicate, and be impactful as part of a globally distributed workforce? We’ll show you how. It’s time to adopt a brand new mindset. Remote working is here to stay. Come and join us.

    description:- The Greatest: What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success Matthew Syed, the 'Sports Journalist of the Year 2016', answers these questions and more in a fascinating, wide-ranging and provocative book about the mental game of sport. How do we become the best that we can be, as individuals, teams and as organisations? Sport, with its innate sense of drama, its competitive edge, its psychological pressures, its sense of morality and its illusive quest for perfection, provides the answers. Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance Black Box Thinking is a new approach to high performance, a means of finding an edge in a complex and fast-changing world. It is not just about sport, but has powerful implications for business and politics, as well as for parents and students. In other words, all of us. Bounce Essential reading following an astounding summer of sport; if you've ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer.What are the real secrets of sporting success, and what lessons do they offer about life? Why doesn't Tiger Woods "choke"? Why are the best figure skaters those that have fallen over the most and why has one small street in Reading produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together.

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    This is your playbook. It details how you and your teammates run our software consulting company and how we make web and mobile products together. It is a living document that you can edit in a private GitHub repo.It's filled with things we've learned based on our own experience and study of others' experiences.We've made the playbook free and licensed it as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial so others may learn from, or use, our tactics in their own companies. While our "plays" have worked for us, we trust their judgment over ours to decide which tools and techniques might work for them, too.

    

    This book contains 39 powerful lessons of personal change, gleaned from Gandhi s life. It offers us invaluable advice on creating and leading an enlightened life a more meaningful, purpose-driven, self-aware and socially responsible life. Drawing from a diverse range of fields such as psychology, management, leadership, philosophy and spirituality, Anand Kumarasamy explains and illustrates each of these lessons in language that is simple, vivid and highly interesting. These lessons are based on timeless principles which, if deeply reflected upon and integrated into our daily lives, can powerfully transform us while positively impacting the world around us.

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    The core quadrant system is built on the principles of the enneagram and further refines the core qualities that define the enneagram's nine personality types. By recognizing qualities such as determination, precision, flexibility, orderliness, and empathy in oneself and one's employees, managers can create environments that allow individuals to flourish within organizations. This system provides managers with insight into the motivations of their employees and is particularly valuable in dealing with difficult or incompatible personality types.

    To my way of thinking, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a better electric vehicle, or develop government policy, or blockade a pipeline; whenever you work with a group of people on a shared objective, there’s some stuff you’re going to deal with, some challenges. How do we decide what we’re working on? who does what? who can join our team? what are our expectations for each other? what happens when someone doesn’t fulfil those expectations? what do we do with disagreement? how do decisions get made?I’m convinced there is not a “one size fits all” recipe, a management structure that you can take off the shelf and install in your collective or your company. But my hypothesis is that there are patterns: common design elements you can draw on as you construct a recipe that’s right for you. Each pattern in this book names a challenge that you are likely to face, and offers tools and techniques you can try in response to that challenge.This is a book for community organisers, leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, founders... if you work with groups of humans, these patterns apply to you.

    

    Developed in the rough and tumble of real Dutch businesses, the sociocratic circle organization uses the principles of the new science of cybernetics to empower everyone in the organization through consent-based decision-making.

    We are one of the three companies in the world authorized to offer services in Holacracy. Our seasoned team teaches organizations how to benefit from this new management style adapted to the 21st century. The purpose of iGi Partners is "Excellence in Holacracy". In order to provide state-of-the-art training, support and coaching in this cutting-edge managerial technology, iGi Partners is constantly perfecting its practice within its own structure. Power games, poor performance, lack of transparency and responsiveness, waste of time, endless meetings, stress, uneasiness and disengagement from employees: how can organizations still encounter the same endemic challenges while numerous managerial techniques have been developed over the past few years? iGi Partners brings an innovative answer to this question: the structure of the companies must evolve by setting up a modern mode of governance that enables the development of necessary skills to face present-day challenges: agility, resiliency, transparency, collective intelligence and distributed leadership.

    

    

    

    They employ different styles and focus on different goals. Despite their differences, great managers share one trait: They break virtually every rule conventional wisdom holds sacred. They don t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They disregard the golden rule. They even play favorites. Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers those who excelled at turning each employee s talent into performance. Companies compete to find and keep the best employees using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But these well-intentioned efforts often miss the mark. The front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. This amazing book explains how the best managers select employees for talent rather than for skills or experience, how they set expectations, how they motivate people, and how they develop people. Gallup s research produced twelve simple questions that distinguish the strongest departments of a company from the rest. This book introduces this essential measuring stick and proves the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and rate of turnover."