Arts Management

O mundo vem sofrendo um processo de mudança contínuo cada vez mais acelerado. Para quem acredita que deve haver uma maneira mais eficiente de fazer as coisas, Scrum é um livro instigante sobre o processo de liderança e gestão que está transformando a maneira como vivemos. É por causa dele que a Amazon pode acrescaentar um novo recurso em seu site todos os dias, que o Red River Army Depot, no Texas, consegue lançar utilitários blindados 39 vezes mais rápido e que o FBI finalmente criou um enorme banco de dados de rastreamento de terroristas.

What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically - opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed best seller The Monk and the Riddle, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real.

Los hábitos acerca del dinero son la clave de la riqueza. Sorprendentemente, millones de personas trabajan día tras día para ganar algo que no saben cómo administrar pero sí cómo gastar. La mayoría sufre por el mal manejo de deudas contraídas y por un avasallante número de tarjetas de crédito que dan un sentido aparente de liquidez pero son terreno fértil para las víctimas del consumo emocional, con el subsecuente deterioro de la economía del tarjetahabiente, que sólo contribuye, con esa actitud, a enriquecer la vida de otros.

Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has - and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results.

Make a lasting impact by launching new initiatives, inspiring others, and championing innovative approaches with this from-the-trenches guide by trusted executive mentor, entrepreneur, and leadership expert Joel Peterson.

John Perry’s insights and laugh-out-loud humor bring to mind Thurber, Wodehouse, and Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit. This charming and accessible audio educates, entertains, and illuminates a universal subject. Procrastinators will be relieved to learn that you can actually accomplish quite a lot while procrastinating. In fact, the book itself is the result of Perry avoiding grading papers, refereeing academic proposals, and reviewing dissertation drafts. It also has a practical side, offering up advice that listeners can put to use.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

From relishing a quiet moment of comfort to enjoying the beauty of nature or even just reveling in the deliciousness of a favorite snack, you too can do like the Swedes and open your eyes to all of life’s pleasures, no matter how simple. Niki Brantmark, founder of the popular blog My Scandinavian Home, offers easy-to-follow how-to’s, practical lists of tips and tricks, and unique insights into the most fascinating aspects of Swedish culture, from morning dips to Christmas crafting. Njuta is the ultimate guide to rejoicing in the moment, anytime and anywhere.

Drawing on the latest discoveries in disciplines ranging from neuroscience to behavioral economics, McQueen suggests that we are too often using 19th- and 20th-century techniques to change 21st-century minds—and are wondering why it’s not working. What we need is an upgrade in our understanding of what it really takes to influence others.

Introducing the Five Guiding Principles of the Agile Coach Facilitation Stance, this book is your guide to moving your team forward, even when things get tough. You will learn to lead your team toward effective collaboration by inviting different points of view (even when it creates conflict), remaining unbiased in high-stakes meetings, understanding what the group needs, and navigating difficult interpersonal dynamics.

The Art of a Genuine Apology is all about three things: learning, healing and growing. It highlights where unhelpful and hurtful interactions start and describes how to address hurtful situations with confidence. You will learn about what is missing from inadequate apologies, what is standing in the way of you offering a genuine apology and most importantly how to move forward differently. It features an apology quiz, stories to illustrate the content, as well as questions and suggestions for you to reflect on.

Organizational change can be a complex process, requiring guidance and support throughout in order to deliver the end product successfully. Unfortunately, 70% of businesses fail to deliver transformational change successfully, repeating familiar mistakes over and over again. The Art of Transformational Change: A Handbook for Managers and Leaders provides invaluable step by step advice on how to get it right.

Today's organizations face two daunting challenges: how to create new sources of competitive advantage to sustain long-term growth, and how to engage leaders at every level of the organization so that they are more proactive and forward-looking in their area of responsibility. The Art of Strategic Leadership uses a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader.

The Art of Strategic Partnering is a how-to guide for creating and managing successful strategic partnerships. Made for entrepreneurial leaders and executives, this audiobook shows you how to grow a company and achieve game-changing results. Learn tried-and-true lessons from a Silicon Valley industry expert who has successfully negotiated and managed more than 150 strategic partnerships.

In today’s fast-paced environment, the speed at which communication travels and the resounding calls for police accountability demonstrate a need for purposeful communications embedded in a strategic mindset. When done right, strategic communication can increase transparency, build trust, and encourage active community participation. Chief Cook has distilled over thirty years of experience into timely lessons filled with practical solutions you can begin implementing right away.

This book will give you the tools to understand manipulation, persuasion, and mind control, teaching you how to communicate with people in the most effective way possible. Despite its simplicity, it can turn everything around. Remember that mind reading, mind control, and manipulation are not bad or immoral things per se, because they will always be used no matter what we intend to do. However, with this book you will be able to detect these techniques, you will never be in the dark and will be able to tell when someone is taking advantage of you.

Quantum Negotiation is a handbook for getting what you need using a mindset and behaviors based on a refreshingly expansive perspective on negotiation. Rather that viewing every negotiation as an antagonistic and combative relationship, this book shows you how to move beyond the traditional pseudo win-win to construct a deal in which all parties get what they need. By exploring who we are as negotiators in the context of social conditioning, this model examines the cognitive, psychological, social, physical, and spiritual aspects of negotiation to help you produce more sustainable, prosperous, and satisfying agreements.

In a fast-changing world of bells and whistles and endless notifications, it has become increasingly challenging to maintain focus and adhere to our goals, but with sheer willpower, we can overcome all the noise. With concise, practical, and objective guidance, The Art of Self-Control will liberate you from the bondages of distraction, mental debilitation, and rash compulsions.

HOW TO STOP OVERTHINKING understands the struggles you are going through. The author of this book understand that you can't sleep at night, you overreact, and you appear to be sensitive. That you are plagued with self-doubt, you often feel no self-value, and that things are just too hard for "someone like you."

Each and every one of us wants to become successful. We aim to fight and win in businesses, careers, relationships, and, ultimately, in life. However, most of us fail to reach our full potential because of various speed breakers. Chanakya and the Art of War draws upon lessons from the great teacher, philosopher, and strategist of Chanakya's masterpiece, Arthashastra, which can help us overcome those speed breakers to become innovative and influential and realize our true potential.