Project Success

Jennifer Dulski, the head of Groups at Facebook, and former president of Change.org, explains how you can turn your mission into a movement that creates change - whether you're at a startup or a political campaign, at a Fortune 500 company or a local community group, or an intern or a CEO. Anyone can spark change if they believe in the power of taking action, no matter where, or how small, they start. Dulski explains how to create a clear vision, inspire supporters, persuade decision makers, navigate criticism, and more.

Most problems are fairly easy: they have a few likely potential root causes. The most important problems often have hundreds or thousands of potential root causes within very complex systems. Such problems are hard problems, and are highly resistant to guessing, brainstorming, or problem-solving methodologies that require conjuring a list of possible causes. Great problem-solvers are armed with a set of behaviors that allows them to avoid guessing.

Written primarily for aspiring professionals who want to enter the world of agile project management and digital delivery, but lack the right knowledge or specific insights, this audiobook is an attempt to share my personal findings and summarize research made as part of becoming a professional Scrum Master. This includes plenty of my subjective yet educated opinions on a number of topics surrounding general theme of presenting yourself as the most appealing agile job candidate, providing advice on how to capitalize on your current professional background.

The Grieving Project is an inventive, unique spoken-word audiobook from award-winning artist, author, playwright Aoede (Lisa A. Sniderman) that sets the stages of grief to music to help us move from surviving to thriving.... The entire audiobook - all 22 tracks - is spoken over original musical compositions.

Discover 67 little known morning ritual habits for creating an unstoppable day! Your morning ritual is what sets you up for having a successful day. It's one of the most important habits to cultivate, as it'll set the precedent of how your day will look. I believe that a successful morning ritual consists of doing at least one thing for your body, mind, and spirit. You must give equal attention to all three aspects of yourself in order to maximize your performance and fulfillment.

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.

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.

Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics.

Whether you’re a student, newly unemployed, looking to change the world, wanting to make your dreams into a reality, or simply tired of the same old scene, you need a way to get on and stay on the path to continuous success. The first volume in the Project: Limitless series provides just that. R.J. Tolson shows you a quick and practical way to get your feet off the ground and into success. You don’t need to be a genius or have a massive amount of money to help you take your first step into the pool of true success—only some time, a dream, and The Success Initiative.

Whether it's the great American novel or a groundbreaking new app, many people want to create a Big Thing, but finding the motivation to get started, let alone complete the work, can be daunting. In The Big Thing, New York Times business writer and editor Phyllis Korkki combines real-life stories, science, and insights from her own experience to illuminate the factors that drive people to complete big creative projects - and the obstacles that threaten to derail success.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan.

The role of project manager requires maintaining a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team, and the organization. This provides a real challenge in the fields of time management and prioritization. Successful Project Management covers the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion, and contains tested and tried techniques on managing stake holders, effective risk management, project planning, launch, and execution. This fifth edition contains new features including summary points at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms.

Les changements dans les organisations échouent trois lois sur quatre ou deux lois sur trois. Pourquoi c'est si dur de changer ? Il s'agit sans doute de la question la plus souvent posée par les individus comme par les entreprises. Les trois parties de ce livre ont été élaborées par trois auteurs à partir de leurs nombreuses conférences sur le sujet. Trois auteurs, trois regards : Les idées reçues sur le changement ; La liberté face au changement ; Les pesanteurs de l'organisation et comment y faire face.

You may be a project manager or a stakeholder with "street smarts". Maybe you have expertise in the nuts and bolts of project execution. Or you might be a "book smart" expert on the rules and tools of the trade. Whatever your strengths, most project managers agree it's a juggling act to balance people and processes. Nearly every project requires a balance of both practical and conceptual skills. Now you can fill in the gaps to gain a perfect balance of the two.

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

Project You by Michael Abdallah is a much-needed guide for understanding how health, well-being, and fitness are related to energy and spirituality. If you've been struggling to move past scars, have unrelenting triggers, and at times find yourself overwhelmed and suffering in your own distress, then Project You invites you to go on a journey and allow yourself to develop a better understanding of why it is you think, act, and feel the way you do, and through this newfound self-empowerment, you will finally meet yourself!

Success Faster on Fire Hot! is simplified real estate agent training and a pared-down real estate agent marketing playbook, because agents have a tendency to over-complicate this business. You will get less of how to make the cover of Realtor Magazine, and more of how to have a solid business and life. Success Faster is for everyone who wants to succeed in the world of real estate.

You work hard. You slog away for hours at your job, day after day, and yet you still never seem to get it all done. You're stressed, you're burnt out and you've had enough of this. Other people seem to get things done with ease, but you're still struggling and there doesn't seem to be any time left over for you. If you've ever found yourself feeling this way and asking these questions, then you have come to the right place. In this audiobook, we discuss the secrets of productivity and best of all, how you can over-haul your life in just 21 days!

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.

Business from the outside can make it seem like you've "got it all". Especially when it allows you to travel the world and live a life with choice. But what happens when two "twenty something" businessmen accidentally peel back the layers of the "filtered" lives they present to the world? What happens when they question things so deeply, they find there's no turning back from what they eventually discover about themselves? This is the side of business no one was meant to see. This is the side of 'success' we often try to hide.