Project Development

Worried about another looming slump? Employ the kaizen ideology today to establish a successful “continuous improvement” mechanism in your business to save it and see dramatic improvements! If you’ve always wanted to increase productivity in your business and maintain the quality of products and services through a sustainable, continuous improvement of processes and products involving the lean and agile startup team, this book is for you.

In a world where family life often feels chaotic, "Project Management for Families: Professional Strategies for Everyday Life" brings the clarity of project management into your home. This book guides you in turning everyday tasks into manageable projects, from setting goals and planning to improving communication and celebrating successes.

Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs. Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.

Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las veces las grandes visiones se convierten en auténticas pesadillas: según las estadísticas, un asombroso 92 por ciento de los megaproyectos superan el presupuesto o el cronograma, o ambas cosas. Incluso los esfuerzos más modestos, como emprender un pequeño negocio, suelen fracasar.

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It's hard to find an educational book that relates to the boots-on-the-ground educator right away. But project-based learning and student-centered learning is the direction education is going no matter your context. Project Based Learning Stories and Structures is a practical guide to starting a PBL journey complete with examples of fails, wins, and a place to get started. Everyone on your staff will have a place to relate in the practical structures and the humorous stories from the classroom.

Embark on a life-changing journey toward self-sufficiency, sustainability, and a deeper connection with nature. Thriving Off-Grid: Building Resilience Through Survival Projects is your comprehensive guide to the transformative world of off-grid living. Imagine living off the land, harnessing renewable energy, and creating eco-friendly structures that harmonize with the environment. This book is your key to unlocking the secrets of off-grid self-sufficiency, from energy independence to water sourcing, sustainable shelter, and cultivating your own food.

In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are naturally gifted with the ability to solve problems and think of the fly. However, the ability to interact with others in social settings or in a work place truly overshadows those with a high IQ. But why is that? How can understanding other people’s emotions have a greater impact than a high IQ?

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book, he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organisations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

Tim Stevens traveled an alternative road—leaving high school and immediately joining a national non-profit organization. He rose quickly through the ranks of leadership, but nine years later left it all behind to help an upstart church get its footing. During the 20 years Stevens served as Executive Pastor at Granger Community Church near South Bend, Indiana, the ministry grew from a congregation of 300 to more than 5,000; from a staff of five to more than 130; with a preschool, restaurant, three campuses and more than 1,800 new churches planted in southern India.

Imagine how fast your company could grow when you finally learn how to condense the work in your software development processes with a method that offers your team and customers full satisfaction and freedom and one that gives you results in the shortest time possible. Say good-bye to poor product quality, less control, poor customer and team satisfaction, and achieve a faster ROI in software development with Scrum!

Repeating positive affirmations can transform automatic thoughts over time, leading to increased optimism, enhanced self-esteem, reduced stress, and greater resilience in the face of adversity. However, repeating positive affirmations doesn’t always encourage action. The brain convinces itself that the result has already been achieved, it may not feel the need to act. Gabriele Oettingen developed the WOOP method based on the theory of mental contrasting with implementation intention.

Feeling overwhelmed by family life? Dive into “Life Projects: Managing Your Family Like a Pro” and turn your home into a well-oiled machine! This ultimate guide helps you bring order, efficiency, and joy to your family with clear goals, realistic schedules, and resource management tips. No project management experience? No problem! This book simplifies everything, making it easy for anyone to apply.

It's time to invite death out of the closet! The impending or actual death of someone close to you can be devastating. It doesn't matter if you knew it was coming, or if it was a total shock-you'll never be the same. There is no right way to grieve, and no appropriate time frame. It's different for everyone. Author and therapist gone rogue, Becky Aud-Jennison, the creator of The Death Dialogues Project and podcast, has sewn together threads from people's shared personal stories and her own experiences.

How do the most successful people in the world manage to create work-life balance? How do they seem to effortlessly achieve all the great business, money, family, or health benefits? How do these people put their daily 24 hours to use? Spiegel best-selling author Dr. Julian Hosp brings light into the darkness by asking questions and answers from his Timehorizon mentor, who has worked with many of these successful people. Like a secret elixir, Julian applies it in his business and increases the value of his company by several hundred million dollars within a few years.

The Happiest Women is an exploration of the factors that influence the success and happiness of women in society. Often these components are both the conscious and unconscious foundational relationship a daughter has with her father and is a critical first step in the overall process of true contentment.

It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying for the SAT. Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e., completely uninterested in any test) and that a mind-boggling menu of test-prep options existed, she decided - on his behalf - to sample as many as she could to create the perfect SAT test-prep recipe.

In this wired, wild world, it is harder than ever to shut out noise and busyness in order to truly calm yourself, but in Crafting Calm, a D.I.Y. guide to peace of mind, you'll find inspiring ideas for how to do exactly that through a wide range of creative exercises. In this audiobook, author Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a practice with enormous physical, mental, and spiritual benefits.

An easy-to-digest, inspiring, and transformational resource for the most crucial project of your life, this blueprint is designed to meet the needs of all relationships, from those that are cruising, complacent, or merely dissatisfied through to those that are highly conflicted.

This audiobook offers meditation topics and affirmations to repeat by combining techniques and methods from different fields, such as positive thinking, kindness, energy level management, solution-oriented coaching, the Palo Alto school, the systemic approach, the narrative approach, the WOOP method, nonviolent communication and many other fields.