A day in the life of a senior leader

Everyone knows that senior leaders have extraordinary demands on their time. Their stamina, decisiveness, and high-wire balancing of resources, people, and priorities can seem superhuman. In this book, Michael Lopp, a senior leader at companies such as Slack, Pinterest, and Apple, brings the day-...

A guide to healthcare facility dress rehearsal simulation planning

A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex provides a step-by-step scalable framework to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Dress Rehearsal event for a project or facility of any size.

Aligning instructional design with business goals

Evaluation-oriented instructional design that delivers business results. Rethink how to design training instruction to meet bottom-line business goals. With his eight-step framework for measurement and evaluation-focused instructional design, Kristopher Newbauer offers a straightforward process f...

Critical capabilities and competencies for knowledge organizations

How can knowledge management professionals position themselves for greatest success? Providing practical guidance for professionals, and including mini-case studies of successes and failures, this book demonstrates how to map knowledge resources to support business critical capabilities, and incr...

Design thinking for training and development

Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning ExperiencesWhen training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive ...

Digital harmony

Digital Harmony: Building Tech and Human Touch explores the delicate balance between technology and humanity in a rapidly evolving digital world.

Effective project management in easy steps

Effective Project Management in easy steps will show you how to make sure your project is successful. It focuses on the key skills a manager needs to develop in order to make sure your project management approach is effective.It includes examples for most key documents such as the terms of refer...

Engineering leadership: the hard parts

Whether they're building a startup or scaling an established org, engineering leaders know the real job is keeping chaos under control. In a world of shifting priorities, scarce resources, and rapid change, leadership means embracing the unknown, managing moving targets, and creating clarity wher...

Escaping the build trap

Gamestorming 2.0

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purpose...

Leading effective engineering teams

Megaproject risk analysis and simulation

Providing new knowledge on risk analysis and simulation for megaprojects, this book is essential reading for both academics and practitioners. Its focus is on technical descriptions of a newly developed dynamic systems approach to megaproject risk analysis and simulation.

Play to learn

When trainers use games, learners win big.As a trainer interested in game design, you know that games are more effective than lectures. You've seen firsthand how immersive games hold learners' interest, helping them explore new skills and experience different points of view. But how do you become...

Project management

Modern projects are confronted with complexity and ambiguity. To provide a holistic framework, this book presents a new project management model that is used to identify the nature of a project and develop appropriate project solutions. It also allows a circular planning process, leading to coher...

Project management for construction

The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.

Project program and portfolio management in easy steps

Project Program and Portfolio Management (P3M) represents project management taken to the enterprise level. Increasingly it is being recognized as critical to the success of projects in large organizations, such as governments and multinational corporations. Conversely, it is also being recognize...

Quality management in learning and development

Develop a Quality Management System to Support Learner and Organizational GoalsQuality management is collectively all the activities and processes that ensure your learning products meet the standard your organization is committed to. All errors have consequences that compromise that standard. Or...

Scrum in easy steps

Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve. It explores the three core roles in a Scrum team and how they work together effectively and covers how a team works with others o...

Simplifying the complex

This easy-to-use guide provides readers with the fundamentals of the transition, activation, and operational planning process and is essential for anyone involved in activating a new healthcare space.

Tech-led culture

Discover the tech-led strategies that will upgrade your business, leading to increased productivity, collaboration and performance.

The engineering leader

Winning with data science

This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications and focusing on how to collaborate productively with data science teams.