Books

Delve into the world of project management with Adam's Axioms, a resource packed with expert insights. Learn to unravel complexities, tackle challenges, and uncover the truth behind project situations using Adam's 40+ years of experience distilled into essential guidelines and PM fundamentals.

Delve into the world of project management with Adam's Axioms, a resource packed with expert insights. Learn to unravel complexities, tackle challenges, and uncover the truth behind project situations using Adam's 40+ years of experience distilled into essential guidelines and PM fundamentals.

Ever seen a “game-changing” corporate initiative kick off with fanfare, only to tangle employees in a baffling array of buzzwords, then gradually stagnate, and eventually fade away into obscurity—no change, no improvement, no lessons learned? The Incredible Story of Deft (2nd ed.) lays bare the dirty secret tanking most change efforts: overhyped frameworks, mental models, and “miracle cure” certifications that are as ill-timed as they are ultimately useless—except for adorning a CV and fluffing CVs and propping up pretenders who swear they’ve cracked how work “should” be done through allegedly valuable, rare, and inimitable knowledge with a mystical air. Marvel, rage, scoff, laugh (or cry, or both) by observing the interactions of fun characters at a 2-day workshop that aims to train the employees of the fictional Betovlax Corporation on the perils of Deft.

A young, impressionable scholar stumbles upon a hallowed anthology of articles describing "X"—a fabulous, counter-intuitive "thing" every company should be "doing" (duh!) with the potential to change the world of business. Will his "X transformation" succeed? And what will he discover about X, organizations, business and, ultimately, himself?

In a world rife with ceaseless challenges and unexpected obstacles, resilience emerges as the cornerstone for survival and triumph. Journey into the enthralling realm of "Defluffing Resilience," where esteemed business resilience expert Divakar Pandian serves as your guide through ten immersive chapters that delve into the essence of resilience.

Canada’s payroll project disaster. The Phoenix system was supposed to rise from the ashes! Instead, $4.2 billion have gone up in flames. Some have lost their life savings, their home, their marriage, their dignity. It’s a catastrophe with no end in sight.

Need to improve value delivery, but don't know where to start? This practical book explains the strategies to apply now to level up efficiently and reliably. Written for busy leaders, it has just enough theory to inform actions, real-world examples to inspire, and guidance to empower you to act effectively in context.

You save 50% while translation is still in progress. Do you want to improve the collaboration in your team(s), colocated as well as online? Do you want to grant autonomy more effectively? Do you want more fun at work and better results? Then this book is going to make all the difference for you.

How to get better at learning from mistakes — building a culture of learning from mistakes in your team or organization.

Do you know how healthy is your organization, department, or team? Have you kept employee turnover, absenteeism, organizational stress, and conflict under tolerable levels? Written for organizational leaders, managers, analysts, HR professionals, the book explains 20 factors to help with improving your organizational health and wealth.

Have you ever been in a retrospective in which you've analyzed the problem for so long that everyone ended up thoroughly discouraged? Improvement seems impossible? This mini book contains questions that will makes these cycles of despair less likely and instead will give teams energy for their next steps.

Hast du es schon erlebt, dass in Retros das Problem so lange ergründet wird, dass alle entmutigt sind und Verbesserung unmöglich scheint? In diesem Mini-Buch gebe ich dir Fragen an die Hand, mit denen diese Todesspiralen unwahrscheinlich werden und Teammitglieder Energie für nächste Schritte gewinnen

A solution designed for the wrong problem means budget and time spent on implementation with little market impact. A more perilous scenario is that an environment has been created where the teams believe they are working toward the right product goals because they’re hitting project goals.

A solution designed for the wrong problem means budget and time spent on implementation with little market impact. A more perilous scenario is that an environment has been created where the teams believe they are working toward the right product goals because they’re hitting project goals.