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This short, practical book includes case studies, examples, and practical guidance to help you get started on your own OKR journey.Written by Natalija Hellesoe and Sonja Mewes, who bring their extensive experience working OKRs in companies of all sizes. Natalija and Sonja are trainers, coaches, and change agents. They work with companies at different stages of the their OKR journeys - from first know-how workshops to OKR practitioner coaching and organizational development.

With practical, proven, hands-on methods, you can learn how to pursue your writing career from the moment you put pen to paper through marketing and social media. Every chapter of this book will give you proven techniques, online resources to begin your own career, and personal examples of the best method to use when realizing your dream of becoming a published author.

For many in product management, success comes from mastery of tools like road maps, MVPs, strategy frameworks, and OKRs. These and other technical skills describe what a product person does to design, build and support new complex technologies for our users. But as technologies quickly become ubiquitous, it’s the human approach to creativity, innovation, decision-making, and leadership that makes the difference in whether an individual, team, product, and even organization is successful or not.

Jessie moved back to picturesque Montana Beach after a heartbreaking split with her ex. She's since thrown herself into her grandparent's inn, which has been struggling financially thanks to the town having seen better days. With few options available, Jessie considers accepting a developer's offer to buy Montana Manor, seeing it as a way to save her family's legacy, until she learns he wants to tear it down. When Mason offers to help Jessie launch a campaign to save Montana Manor, the two quickly find themselves relying more and more on each other.

As a leader, you've heard that design is important, and you believe it. But you may not know what you need to know about it, how to buy it, and how to manage it. This is the book for you.

Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work.

Tammy-Jo Hawthorne's marriage was floundering, but she never expected her husband to make her the laughing stock of Magnolia. And she definitely didn't expect to trip over him in their front yard after he'd been murdered.

Product development teams today face an increasingly complex set of ethical problems. How do we protect user privacy? With whom should we partner? Who do we welcome into our online communities? How do we ensure online fairness? How do we keep our users safe? Too often, the first time we consider questions like these is after a complaint in the market - a painful and expensive starting point. At that point, all we can do is react. Instead, it's possible to take a proactive approach, baking an ethical framework into our product development process.

DEA Special Agent Maggie Holt is fierce, smart, beautiful - and in over her head. Maggie has been working undercover 15 months when she is taken by Chinese-Mexican cartel leader, Chenglei. She tries to escape with eight other women and is captured and brutally punished. Adam O'Connor is angry and frustrated. It's his fault his partner, and one-time lover, is missing and no matter how many leads he chases, they don't bring Maggie home.

This audiobook makes it easy to identify your own personality type and those of your family, friends, and colleagues. And once you find it out, your life will start to make so much sense. You will be stunned to see the depth of your persona and the invisible factors controlling your life.

Olympic-caliber running hopeful Riley Dalton lost his left leg from the knee down in the noblest of ways: saving a trapped woman whose car was engulfed by fire. Years removed from that life-changing moment, he returns home to Dunberry, Michigan, searching for the pathway to a new life. Riley’s high school sweetheart, Jennifer Bailey, understands the process of reinvention. Heartbreak and corporate theft sent her scampering from New York straight back to her small-town roots...Will love be enough to cover the distance between them?

When it comes to redesigning how government functions, most of the common assumptions about innovation don’t hold up. Hana Schank and Sara Hudson conducted nearly 70 interviews with people inside of government to understand the common threads for successful innovation projects...In The Government Fix, Hana Schank and Sara Hudson, both a public interest technology fellows at New America and veterans of both Federal and local government, share what they’ve learned about how to truly make change.

Enneagram guide and author Eleanor Cooper shares her must-hear insights on the world of personality types. Based on her work with several hundred people through the past decade and her research about human nature driven by insatiable appetite for knowledge and understanding, she now brings up the questions we are all longing to get a clear answer on: Who am I? Who can I become?

Author Eleanor Cooper reveals the nine types of personalities to allow you to finally understand not only how to turn your life around based on your exact personality type but realize how all people around you are wired and how to build long-lasting relationships. This concise, easy-to-understand, and entertaining guide will open your eyes on human nature. So much so that it will become shockingly easy for you to find shortcuts for building stronger connections with people around you.

Diverse teams are more effective and get more done than homogenous ones. Yet, despite decades of effort, many tech teams are failing at hiring and retaining women. The reason: we’re looking in the wrong place. Hiring women doesn’t start with recruiting. It starts with creating a work environment that’s safe and equal for all. By listening to this audiobook, you will learn an agile, iterative framework for hiring and retaining women that’s practical and easy to use for any team, big or small.

If you are struggle with losing weight or fat and are fed up with all the diets, calorie counting, measuring food, and getting lost in all the confusion, then pay attention. Intermittent fasting is a proven, time-tested, life-changing solution. People are using it to lose weight, improve their health, and simplify their lifestyles. Find out more about this diet.