Are you a tech founder ready to move beyond the start-up phase and scale up?

This book is your guide.

Drawing on his experience as a senior partner at McKinsey specializing in innovation and growth, and as the co-founder of THNK (school for impact- oriented entrepreneurs) and ScaleUpNation (research-based scale-up accelerator), Menno van Dijk shares a proven scale-up method based on real data and hands-on experience.

Based on research across 669 ventures, this book reveals the 15 success fact...

This book is about the how of project management and about how you as a project manager can use a proactive attitude to stay in control, even during difficult situations. It shows you how to become an influencer of the path to the end result, of your environment, of your team and of your effectiveness.

Today’s project managers have to meet high expectations. Challenging goals, a strong focus on cost management and lead times, serving the interests of different stakeholders and many dependen...

IPMA ICB Reference Guide for PMO. This standard is dedicated to the structures that support projects, programmes and portfolios to run them effectively and efficiently. These structures are called PMO – Project Management Offices. A PMO is defined as an organisational unit responsible for the administrative and specialists’ support of the responsible management in their management of a (set of) project(s), programme(s) or portfolio(s). PMO plays a very important role in designing, perform...

Feedback is a message about the behavior or performance of another person. Feedback is indispensable when you work with other people. Sometimes you need to tell someone that their work is not up to standard or, by contrast, excellent.

In this booklet, you will find tips and advice about giving feedback.

Managers today seem to have to be jacks of all trades. Delegating, co-operating,

motivating, planning and even keeping up to date with developments as

well as taking training courses: this is what is expected of managers today.

But who can possibly do all these things at the same time?

Coen Dirkx and Anton van den Dungen show us which skills you need to be a

manager, how to obtain these skills and how to put them into practice without

becoming completely snowed under. Using models, recommenda...

If you want to accelerate your business and career and stand out like a tall giraffe surrounded by tiny field mice, now is the time to get serious and get going.

In this book, high performance expert Paul Rulkens offers the best ideas, insights and techniques to get everything you can out of everything you have -- from business growth to maximizing your own performance.

In 'The Power of Preeminence' you will learn the critical skills and inside secrets to:

- Focus on the few things necessary...

The idea behind this book is to give both entrepreneurs and managers a better understanding of what strategy is all about. Even more importantly, we try to answer the question how to make the strategy work and how to get the people involved in the strategy more inspired and committed.

Formulating a strategy that provides a sustainable competitive advantage is one thing. We all know that so many well-formulated strategies fail in their execution. However, just because something is hard doesnâ...

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic bestseller. In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management. As one of the foremost speakers and writers in the human performance field, for nearly 40 years D...