The Power of Music Thinking allows users to construct a new model for innovative business by using a musical analogy. The book challenges you to embrace various perspectives simultaneously, boost collaboration, and guide readers towards refining their leadership skills. Instead of approaching business as various silos, Music Thinking treats organizations as an orchestra, with each part having its tune to add.

Split into four sections - Listen, Tune, Play, and Perform - this book breaks dow...

In Mindset to Startup, you’ll go on an enlightening journey that transcends the conventional boundaries of entrepreneurship. Naguib invites readers to explore the true essence of entrepreneurship, going beyond the pursuit of profit. With insights drawn from 10,000 hours of mentoring founders, Naguib offers a highly experienced perspective, emphasizing the significance of value literacy to attain tangible progress on the uncertain journey of entrepreneurship.

The book delves into the latent ...

Good services don't happen by accident, and neither do bad ones. Designing a service that works for users and organizations is just the first step. The real challenge begins when that design is turned into reality.'Bad Services' delves into common obstacles. From organizational silos and risk aversion to a lack of buy-in, the barriers can seem insurmountable. This book helps you understand why service design often fails to be implemented and provides practical solutions to overcome these chal...

In today’s fast-paced world, organisations face unprecedented and ever-evolving challenges, making effective change management more vital than ever. Leaders, managers, and change agents often struggle to make their organisations more resilient, as choosing the right change methods can feel daunting. Without clear guidance on which approaches work best in specific situations, organisations risk adopting solutions that fall short or fail to deliver lasting results, jeopardising their strategi...

Do you want to work more effectively? Or live a more meaningful life? Or contribute

to a better world? Or all of the above? You can do that. Every day. How? With Spirited Personal Leadership.

This book is intended for anyone who, in their private or work life, wants to:

• work more effectively;

• develop their talents further;

• have a healthy work/life balance;

• increase the amount of control they have in their own life and work;

• experience more pleasure, passion, meaning and vi...

One mindset is that the project management process itself should be lead. You promote proactive project management by planning and evaluating relevant management initiatives – and by adapting the level of effort and the tools for the project’s degree of complexity. The entire book can be considered as a method with tools for such planning and evaluating the project management.

Another mindset is that the project management is not only a task for the project managers. The project owners, ...

The Change Manager's Handbook is an easy to read kaleidoscope of a book that covers the whole topic of change management from the theory right through to a very practical step-by-step guide to implementing sustainable change. The book is written in a very accessible and easy to read style and is cram packed with useful tips and tricks, images and cartoons that every Change Manager will find useful to bring about change in their organisation.

A downloadable 'Toolbox' (available from the publ...

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers. The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be ...

Marc Lambotte uses stories to illustrate the business insights he acquired. Business insights that he wished someone had shared with him earlier on in his career. In this book he takes the reader from story to story. Stories that are recognizable for anyone with experience in business. Stories that are of great value to young professionals, who will certainly recognize them as they build their careers.

This book challenges you to continue working on your personal development after having rea...

Project management is characterised by systematic and integral control of the development process, from creative idea to concrete product. This book concentrates on the management of event projects. Events such as festivals, exhibitions, conferences, arts productions, sports events and company events draw a lot of attention. An initiative frequently ends in failure, because the funding cannot be finalised, deadlines are not met or budgets are exceeded. The professional approach of a project c...