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Book Review: Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles
There are 3 main challenges in scaling up a business once you get past the start up stage: 1) Growing the capabilities of the leadership team 2) Installing a scalable infrastructure to manage the complexities that keep increasing with growth … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Metrics, Operations, People, Planning
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3 Pillars of a Retrospective
In my previous blog post, I made an appeal to treat retrospectives as sacrosanct and not to skip them. Here I will discuss the 3 Pillars of Retrospectives i.e. the critical success factors without which retrospectives will not be effective … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, People, Project Management, Retrospectives, Software Development
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Book Review – When Teams Collide
International teams are now a reality in multinational organizations. In this book, Richard D. Lewis, an internationally known cross-cultural consultant and trainer provides guidelines on how to successfully assemble, manage and strengthen international teams. He discusses the following 11 skills … Continue reading
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Book Review: Top Business Psychology Models
Business psychology: Studies and theories which help us understand or explain human behavior, emotions and cognitions at work. Business psychology has linkages with other areas like human physiology, spirituality and philosophy which have implications on performance at work. In this … Continue reading
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Book Review: Organisation Culture – Getting it Right
Author: Naomi Stanford This book on corporate culture is intended for managers and business people who are struggling to: a) Understand the culture of their organization b) Get a grip on why it matters c) Get their culture right for … Continue reading
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Book Review: People Analytics
Author: Ben Waber People Analytics involves measuring, collecting and analyzing the data which characterizes the people’s behavioral patterns. While the traditional methods of collecting such data has been through direct observations or through surveys, the emerging trend is the use … Continue reading
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Tagged Human Resource Management, People, People Analytics, Social Sensors, Sociometry, Team Dynamics
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Book Review: People CMM 2nd Edition
Authors: Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley & Sally A. Miller People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM) is a Human Capital Management framework developed by Carnegie Mellon University. This framework is based on the best practices of diverse fields like human … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Competency Development, Human Resource Management, Management, P-CMM, People, Workforce Development
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Book Review : The Professional – Defining the New Standards of Excellence at Work
Author: Subroto Bagchi Who is a true professional ? The author a well known business leader in Indian IT industry, redefines “professionalism” in this book. As per Bagchi, being professional is much more than accepting the responsibility and doing the … Continue reading
Book Review: Beautiful Teams
Editors: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene This book provides deep insights into what makes a good team tick, and what one can do to make a mediocre team better. The editors of this book are well experienced in software development … Continue reading
Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Original Edition)
Author: Patrick Lencioni Published: 2008 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Paperback: 240 pages Buy from Flipkart This book is a must read for those executives who wants to bring about team leadership culture in their organization and also highly recommended for Agile Coaches, … Continue reading
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