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Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies from the Inside Out and What to Do About It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 225min

The greatest threat to an organization's success is not always the competition. Often, it is what a company does to itself. Because of fear, companies become plagued with barriers and bureaucracy that limit success, crush employees, and infuse frustration and a sense of futility across the enterprise. It starts with a narrowing of focus, which leads to the first level of bureaucracy: parochialism. Parochialism exists when managers and departments begin to view the world through the filter of their own little silo and build walls made of rules and policies to protect their turf. As businesses grow and become more complex, the second level of bureaucracy is reached: territorialism. While parochialism is about protecting a department from outsiders, territorialism is about controlling those inside the silo. The third and final level of bureaucracy is empire building, which is a response to perceived threats to a department's ability to be self-sufficient. These barriers cost organizations a fortune in inefficiency, turnover, waste, and demoralization. Tearing down these barriers is difficult, but it can be done. Parochialism can be eliminated by resetting rules and policies and refocusing on the ultimate mission of the organization. Territorialism can be eliminated by creating true empowerment, along with appropriate levels of accountability. Empire building can be addressed through shared goals and a set of guiding principles that help act as a referee in decision making. But that's not enough. Managers must also create a culture of courage to enable employees to take advantage of these new freedoms and accountabilities. Courage killers must be rooted out and dealt with swiftly and strongly. Finally, leaders must refocus on mission success rather than just checking off their part of the process, manage reference points, and engage employees. By doing all these things, an organization can become fearless and unstoppable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mel Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008233/bk_brll_008233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Professional Product Owner, The (eBook, PDF)

The Professional Product Owner's Guide to Maximizing Value with Scrum "This book presents a method of communicating our desires, cogently, coherently, and with a minimum of fuss and bother." -Ken Schwaber, Chairman & Founder, Scrum.org The role of the Product Owner is more crucial than ever. But it's about much more than mechanics: it's about taking accountability and refocusing on value as the primary objective of all you do. In The Professional Product Owner, two leading experts in successful Scrum product ownership show exactly how to do this. You'll learn how to identify where value can be found, measure it, and maximize it throughout your entire product lifecycle. Drawing on their combined 40+ years of experience in using agile and Scrum in product management, Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham guide you through all facets of envisioning, emerging, and maturing a product using the Scrum framework. McGreal and Jocham discuss strategy, showing how to connect Vision, Value, and Validation in ROI-focused agile product management. They lay out Scrum best-practices for managing complexity and continuously delivering value, and they define the concrete practices and tools you can use to manage Product Backlogs and release plans, all with the goal of making you a more successful Product Owner. Throughout, the authors share revealing personal experiences that illuminate obstacles to success and show how they can be overcome. Define success from the "outside in," using external customer-driven measurements to guide development and maximize value Fill the "product management vacuum" by bringing empowerment and entrepreneurship to the Product Owner's role Align everyone behind a shared model of how to create, deliver, and capture value Use Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) to invest in the right places, make smarter decisions, and reduce risk Effectively apply Scrum's Product Owner role, artifacts, and events Populate and manage Product Backlogs, and use just-in-time specifications Plan and manage releases, improve transparency, and reduce technical debt Scale your product, not your Scrum Use Scrum to inject autonomy, mastery, and purpose into your product team's work Whatever your role in product management or agile development, this guide will help you deliver products that offer more value, more rapidly, and more often.

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Principles and Practice of Marketing

The ninth edition of McGraw-Hill's leading textbook, Principles and Practice of Marketing, provides a contemporary and modern introduction to marketing. Covering the importance of customer value alongside the 4Ps, this authoritative text provides students with a core understanding of the wider context of marketing operations within companies, illustrated with innovative examples of marketing in practice. It has been updated with the latest developments, such as trends towards social and ethical marketing and cutting-edge technological change. Find Out: * The crucial role that retail plays in promoting the economic and social health of towns and cities. * How Maltesers won the Channel 4 TV competition championing diversity and disability. * How companies are using social media influencers to promote their brands. * How data analytics and artificial intelligence are refocusing Harley Davidson's marketing strategy. * How Manchester City FC is innovating in high-tech marketing and co-creation. Key features: * A brand-new chapter on Digital Marketing, and a focus on technology throughout the text. * A structure that focuses on the importance of Customer Value. * Fully updated to reflect the latest technologies and digital developments. * New and updated Marketing in Action boxes and Mini Cases, focusing on European and Global companies including Amazon, Pandora, Zara and IKEA * 44 new and updated end-of-chapter cases provide insights across a range of businesses including high street fashion stores and supermarkets (Burberry, Nordstrom, Coop Danmark, H&M), Airlines and services (EasyJet, Starbucks) and high-tech operations (Apple, eSports,Toyota), as well as important developments, such as place marketing and social media influencers. * Fully updated and streamlined pedagogy, including refocused recommended readings at the end of each chapter, encouraging expanded knowledge. This edition has now been updated to include 9 bitesize videos with associated concept check questions. Each of the videos revisit a case study in the book and provides a second look in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The videos can be accessed on Connect and cover: - Case 2: H&M - Case 3: Marketing in a Place: Roeselare - Case 5: Cappucino Wars: Starbucks and competitors - Case 8: AstraZeneca - Case 9: Channel 4 and Maltesers - Case 11: Harley Davidson - Case 14: Lego - Case 15: Kim Kardashian: Influencer Marketing - Case 32: Online Media

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Competing Against Time (eBook, ePUB)

Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time-in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution-represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage. With many detailed examples from companies that have put time-based strategies in place, such as Federal Express, Ford, Milliken, Honda, Deere, Toyota, Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, Citicorp, Harley-Davidson, and Mitsubishi, the authors describe exactly how reducing elapsed time can make the critical difference between success and failure. Give customers what they want when they want it, or the competition will. Time-based companies are offering greater varieties of products and services, at lower costs, and with quicker delivery times than their more pedestrian competitors. Moreover, the authors show that by refocusing their organizations on responsiveness, companies are discovering that long-held assumptions about the behavior of costs and customers are not true: Costs do not increase when lead times are reduced; they decline. Costs do not increase with greater investment in quality; they decrease. Costs do not go up when product variety is increased and response time is decreased; they go down. And contrary to a commonly held belief that customer demand would be only marginally improved by expanded product choice and better responsiveness, the authors show that the actual results have been an explosion in the demand for the product or service of a time-sensitive competitor, in most cases catapulting it into the most profitable segments of its markets. With persuasive evidence, Stalk and Hout document that time consumption, like cost, is quantifiable and therefore manageable. Today's new-generation companies recognize time as the fourth dimension of competitiveness and, as a result, operate with flexible manufacturing and rapid-response systems, and place extraordinary emphasis on R&D and innovation. Factories are close to the customers they serve. Organizations are structured to produce fast responses rather than low costs and control. Companies concentrate on reducing if not eliminating delays and using their response advantage to attract the most profitable customers. Stalk and Hout conclude that virtually all businesses can use time as a competitive weapon. In industry after industry, they illustrate the processes involved in becoming a time-based competitor and the ways managers can open and sustain a significant advantage over the competition.

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