(Part 2) Best business management books according to redditors
We found 986 Reddit comments discussing the best business management books. We ranked the 333 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
So this is a good book to look at: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Your-Journal-Twelve-Weeks/dp/141295701X
It’s specifically tailored to helping you make your longer papers (dissertation/thesis) into an article for publication. I’d start there !
>Is there a book/video/training that can give me a really solid understanding of expectations of Agile?
Many. You can spend thousands of dollars and attend hundreds of hours of training. Scrum.org and ScrumAlliance.org both offer certification classes. But that is not what you need at first (unless the company pays, then do it!). The first thing you need is to understand agile is an adjective. You can look up the definition in the dictionary. If you use google though, look at the traditional definition "able to move quickly and easily", not the "project management" bullshit. Agile is not project management. Dictionary definitions are what is in common use, not what is correct, and there are a LOT of traditional managers and PMO "gurus" misusing the term. Agile is about your team/org being agile: responding to the constantly changing project & world quickly & easily.
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Next, read the agile manifesto. The manifesto is the basic description of what the creators identified as the shared reasons their individually designed practices were successful. The actual processes they created were all customized to the creator's individual teams and situations. They all had different ways of doing things, but realized they were all successful because they all valued, for example, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools".
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Now, get ready to fight the PMO. I say "fight" a little facetiously though, because remember the one value I listed above? VALUE individuals and interactions. If you're "fighting", then you're not interacting very well. If management and their PMO are not on board though, you're going to have a fun time trying to merge stuff because you're going to be violating principles left & right just because they have the authority to beat you up if don't follow their processes.
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I haven't really answered your questions yet, have I? That is because the questions you asked are a little advanced. How do you merge what the agile frameworks are recommending with management & PMO's processes, needs, and expectations? By talking with your org. By training them in the "agile metrics" and how to use them. By getting their support for the agile transition. By setting up many intermediary steps to get them comfortable and familiar with the new way of doing things. By showing them how successful one high performing team can be, and then describing the compounding benefits of getting the entire org on board so you can do that. This is stuff an experienced agile coach can help walk your org through over time.
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So how about a couple solid answers of varying worth to your specific questions/comments?
If he was initially resistant to going to school, it sounds like the sweatshirt was an excuse, not the actual reason. You may want to explore that further with him; as others have said, your counselors should be able to help with the situation.
But to address the part of your post about your response to him: You allowed him to shift the focus of what was bothering him. If you can step back and be objective about the situation, you'll see him trying to push your buttons (rudeness and disrespect) and can counteract that by not responding to it.
This may sound far-fetched, but there's an old business management book, designed to be a quick and easy read (although it takes a long time to figure out how to implement the ideas, like any other good system) that might help you get a handle on your own reactions: "The One Minute Manager".
What I noticed about it when I was learning to manage employees, years ago, is that many of the techniques are also good parenting techniques, particularly for adolescents. Kids are particularly good at shifting responsibility back to the parents, simply by acting out or pushing hot buttons. My SAH mother was an excellent 'kid' manager, and I recognized some of her techniques!
A later book which built on the principles in the One Minute Manger was called "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey"](http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804) which is even more appropos of your situation, since it highlights all the ways in which lazy employees try to con their managers.
Assigned tasks are the 'monkeys' which employees try to get the manager to do for them; the book highlights the ways in which managers fall for the ploys, and provides counters. But step one is recognizing what's happening at the time.
Take the sweatshirt issue (ignoring that there may be something else at the heart of this behavior, but just assuming there wasn't). He stood in the rain and got it wet and dirty, right? Why wasn't it his responsibility to wash and dry it, if he wanted to wear it the next day? He had a problem, his solution was to turn it into your problem--and you let him. But he's just being a kid and doing what adolescent kids do, which is see-sawing between growing up too fast and not growing up at all.
Your parenting job right now is to manage him past this behavior, and maybe treating him like an "employee"--someone capable of responsibility--is part of the answer. Of course, hugs and love are an acceptable part of this workplace!
Good luck to you!
I would highly recommend Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
Follow the ISA-88 standard for batching. Break your operation into phases and follow the state model (Idle/Active/Held/ect...) to control equipment. Have a permissive check before transitioning to active, and program faults that will force the phase to be held. Equipment only runs when the right phase is active.
Rockwell has something in ControlLogix called Phase Manager that does a lot of the work for you when it comes to controlling phases, but it's not too hard to program your own phase state engine once you understand the model.
http://www.amazon.com/Applying-S88-Batch-Control-Perspective/dp/1556177038
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Second Influence. Getting Everything You Can is good if you are basic in marketing, I would not recommend it for people who are more advanced.
If you don't know what a "business goal" is, you need to read this:
this book costs $10 and teaches you more than that garbage course
> Have you dealt much with software patents? While prior art is a legitimate attack on the process it's a fairly shaky ground if it's your only real argument because it's an amorphous term. I mean, if the prior art covers concepts A, B, C, and D, but this new solution covers A, C, D, and E, then prior art alone isn't going to be enough to null it.
Again though, there is a difference between claiming innovative steps for a new technology.. and trying to claim a use case for a GPS solution for the delivery business. One is more difficult to research/costly by orders of magnitude than the other.
A complete hypothetical, imagine the system involves you have the GPS delivery, and then at the end there is a quick survey on how fast it was and a guarantee for delivery on time or something free. Lets assume this has never been mentioned before, and I patent it with those two steps on the end, possibly as a business system instead.
So, this might help you establish a monopoly on the best possible delivery service, because only your business system is able to offer this survey and the guarantee, but that doesnt stop dominos from just copying the baseline generic software patent without the survey and guarantee.
I've read over the patent and if you honestly think this patent cant be slightly modified and then redone in what is in the field of prior art you have no idea what you are talking about. If you wanted to put money on this I bet I could find dozens of similar patents/systems and alternative ways to skin the problem that Dominos could use. It wouldnt be identical, but it would be good enough.
Dominos are pieces of shit because they likely manipulated and lied to these guys from the start at the very least they could have ceased the relationship like gentlemen. But... these guys at Precision probably needed to be more realistic about their patent on the global scale in terms of being able to impose a monopoly on the industry.
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> You can get fucked right there
> I own a consultancy that operates out of Sydney and Canberra and there is literally no way on this green earth I'd ever risk my entire company based off of a handshake agreement. When I need to outlay significant capital to secure hires and/or equipment that I can't use elsewhere there needs to be a contract signed.
Where did i say to risk everything off handshakes. I was talking about the fact that the trade contract they had in place would likely never be agreed in a manner that was strong enough to obfuscate them potentially going with another party one day.
Of course you need retail agreements with people you do business. I outright said that several times which you blatantly ignored. The primary reason you need this is to protect your own liabilities as a service provider.
I'm just saying, if Australia Post tried to tell people they were selling a delivery service to, "you cant use any other delivery service in the future if you go with us", the client will say "no thanks, we wont do business with you".
Dominos are pieces of shit, i'm not defending them here. But where are all the other customers using Precisions GPS tracking solution? It seems like if they had somehow established themselves as a market leader, offering a quality and well priced solution in the market, Dominos never would have gone with a competitor instead. Perhaps Precision priced wrong because they thought they could due to having a patent?
None of this speculation matters much. I only objected to one thing, which was people shitting on the handshake deal. If you work at a massive corp, I can understand thinking that the contracts have to cover every aspect. But for Aussie startups, my opinion is that you will never be able to cover every aspect in a contract, and to retain clients you need demonstrate value.
I got a good book last year on this very topic, "Getting Naked". http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Naked-Business-Shedding-Sabotage/dp/0787976393
In summary, IMO, the fact the handshake was in play had nothing to do with why they got ripped off in this particular case. Its the fact that Dominos lawyers think their patent isnt worth shit. Whatever contract you are imagining that they could have thrown out to lock Dominos in from day 0 is something Dominos never would have signed... thats all i'm saying.
Also, I would bet my business that GPS tracking systems were already in play in the US when these guys started it, its just their particular method involving displays etc is the particular version these guys tried to claim for themselves.
Great to hear that you're looking to get into product ownership, it's a great career with a bunch of learning opportunities and career options. Understanding agile and the various frameworks is a great start. It sounds like you have some technical understanding (although not a must, it can help tremendously) and also domain expertise...again more ticks. At its heart a PO is responsible for ensuring that what your team build is the correct thing. This can be summarised as the following
This work is often called 'Discovery' and learning how to ensure that these 4 critera are meet and then suitably broken down to stopries which can be consumed for your dev/qa team is keys. As with everything there is a host of methods/frameworks out there, but here is some articles i've found good.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/user-needs - a comon method for creating initial stories, and most improtantly makes you consider why you're creating the story as you need to talk to the benifit. (the british government's digital transformation is actually a great case study for PO's)
https://www.devbridge.com/articles/how-to-set-up-dual-track-scrum-in-jira/ -Dual track scrum is a framework for creating a design framework which preceeds the dev/test sprint.
I'd suggest trying to find out which agile methodology your company uses (Scrum, kanban etc) and then spending time gathering more info on the specific methodology. If Scrum then the key ceremonies a PO is needed for is Sprint Planning and Demos & Retrospectives. Learn what is expected of you during these ceremonies.
A couple of books that i found useful:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540223&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+startup - Lean Startup....kinda product mangement/owner essential reading
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/0593076117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540263&sr=8-1&keywords=sprint - Sprint. A practical guide toi how to solve big problems. As you only have a week heres a 90 second video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2vSQPh6MCE
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspired-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540364&sr=8-1&keywords=inspired - Inspired - A great book specifically on Product manangement but is also usefuil for PO's
Once you become a PO, the trick is applying the host of diffrent frameworks and understanding what works best for your team is the tricky part. If you can find yourself a mentor it's a great help to do so as they can help you navigate potential hurdles.
Hope this helps and good luck with the interview
PS i didn't continue with education post GCSE, don't let that worry you.
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Although more about product delivery and lifecycle management, i'd recommend:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Phoenix-Project-Audiobook/B00VAZZY32
[No audiobook, but worth the read] The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Essays On Software Engineering https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B8USS14/
[No audiobook, but about 1/3 the price at the moment for kindle and really good]
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Developer Best Practices) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JDMPOK2/
https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/B00AQ5DOCA
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum/dp/B00NHZ6PPE
I've posted this before but I'll repost it here:
Now in terms of the question that you ask in the title - this is what I recommend:
Job Interview Prep
Junior Software Engineer Reading List
Read This First
Fundementals
Understanding Professional Software Environments
Mentality
History
Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List
Read This First
Fundementals
Software Design
Software Engineering Skill Sets
Databases
User Experience
Mentality
History
Specialist Skills
In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.
I'm working on my MA right now, and this term I've taken a writing seminar for academic publishing.
This class has changed my life.
This book and this book were required for the class, and they have been really, REALLY helpful to me.
If you get the books, just ignore the parts that aren't relevant for you. "How to Write a Lot" is specifically about academic publication in the field of Psychology, but it is written in a way that is clear, makes sense, and relates way more to building better work/study habits than it deals specifically with publication. It's worth getting just for the parts that will be relevant to you.
Belcher's work-book is less relevant, but it has a lot of great advice on how to write better papers, and it covers pretty much every discipline.
You should seriously spend the $10 on "How to Write a Lot," you won't regret it. In case you don't...
How to Stop Procrastinating and Study More
For me, the problem was "writer's block." For you it's procrastination. They are two different names for the same thing. The solution to them sounds extremely unpleasant... until you try it.
You have to study every day. Yes, every day.
Currently, if you are like how I have been for about the last 20 years, you wait until a few days before your test or class or whatever, and then you spend hours upon hours studying until you are exhausted and pretty much hate whatever you were studying, right? If you get around to studying at all?
Stop doing that.
You know what kind of person you are, morning person, night owl, whatever.
Want to make it easier on yourself? Spend the next week recording everything you do over the course of every day- every hour should be accounted for. You don't have to share this with anyone, so if you spent an hour jerking it... well... that's fine, but it's probably time better spent studying.
When you do this, you will find that you are not as busy as you feel like you are. You probably have one hour from every day that you could use to do something more productive.
Even if you only use half an hour every day for studying, doing it EVERY DAY is what is essential. You have to turn the process of binge-studying and procrastination into a daily habit.
If you are like me, this sounds absurd, and you are probably thinking you aren't going to do this because it sounds stupid and won't work.
That was what I thought, until I did it.
I thought, "but I can't just MAKE myself write (study), I have to be in the mood for it."
No, you don't. If you do it every day you will find out it's actually really easy to pick things up and put them back down again, once you know it will happen every day.
It ceases to be some stressful thing you have to actively think of and remember to do.
If you KNOW that from 3pm to 4pm every weekday, you will be studying, then it becomes completely natural to pick up your books, work at things for a while, and then put them away at the end of it and move on to whatever else you want to do for the day.
"But I won't remember what I was working on."
Yes, you will. You don't remember what you study from your marathon sessions because you can't process that much shit at once.
If you spend about an hour every day on it, it becomes much more easy and natural to recall what you were studying. In fact, you will probably find yourself thinking about it more often than you ever would have expected of yourself.
"But people interrupt me."
Of course they do, people interrupt everything. But you don't say "I'm too busy to go to work/class," because that's absurd. It's an obligation, so you do it.
You need to jealously guard your study time. I'm not saying you can't be flexible and shift things around to be most convenient for you, but if you have your dedicated "study time" blocked off and a friend wants to go party, tell them you can't, but in an hour you'll be free.
Your friends are horrible influences. They WILL try to get you to do fun things instead. Mine did, and most of the time I listened to them.
Now, I don't. I get my shit done, and I feel immensely less stressed because of it. The time I invest on writing rarely ever actually interferes with plans I have made, or even spur-of-the-moment stuff that comes up.
"But I'm busy every Saturday/sunday/Whatever."
That's fine. Take a day off, have a day where you just enjoy yourself and don't study, but make sure that you develop a schedule for studying, and stick to it. Make it a time you know works well for you.
Lastly, your "study time" doesn't have to be strictly you, cramming from books, day after day. Use this time to work on homework, to organize your notes, to work on all of the shit that is related to studying that you need to work on, including studying itself. Studying is the act of studying, sure, but "studying" also includes working on homework, emailing professors, contacting peers you study with, organizing notes; whatever you can think of that is tied into the process of studying, this is your dedicated time to do that stuff.
Some days, you just won't feel up to cracking open the books, and that's fine. Use that day to organize your notes, or email your teacher that question you've been wondering about, or whatever. What, specifically, you do, is less important than blocking off the time so you can work on what you need to work on. Some days WILL be less productive than others, and that's okay, because you will be studying again tomorrow, and you can make up for it tomorrow, or the next day, or whenever; the point is, since you aren't procrastinating and binging on studying all at once, you KNOW that you will have regularly scheduled time to work on things.
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As far as how to actually study better, being organized and breaking tasks into groups of things that need to be done helps, but ultimately the best way to do this is read up about different things people do, different strategies/techniques, and try them out. Some will work for you, some won't. I'm a visual/tactile learner, if I write something down it tends to stick; if I hear it and don't write it down, it's gone.
I'm at work right now, but I'll be heading home soon, if you are interested I can put some of the material from the book up here for you, so let me know if you'd like that.
Blue Ocean Strategy and Getting Naked:A Business Fable
Oh god, please kill me now. QR codes are not, and never were, a relevant tool. They require the user to have a smartphone, download a completely separate single-use app, and then scan it. A url (or a shortened URL through bit.ly, etc.) would be way more effective.
People are so obsessed with sticking QR codes everywhere. I work in the marketing department for a university, and at least once a week we have to talk people out of putting QR codes on flyers, mailers, etc. They are embarrassing, clunky, not very efficient, and completely irrelevant.
I am also not the only one with this opinion:
Most of these articles are well over a year old. The QR code never really had a "golden age." There was a very short period where people were scanning them because they were new and people were curious. But data doesn't show much repeat use. People would enter a simple URL in their mobile browser.
What this teacher did is definitely awesome. But a QR code?! Ack. Much better ways to share this information.
Phew. And that's the end of my rant.
Start by reading this book here https://www.amazon.com/How-Much-Should-I-Charge/dp/0984587624
Followed by https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Contractor-Contractors-Businesses-About/dp/0060938463
Join the electriciantalk.com community forums, they have a great business section.
Here are three books that I've read within the past year that I loved:
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Rand Fishkin's Lost and Founder
April Dunford's Obviously Awesome
Verne Harnish's Scaling Up
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Of the three, only Dunford's book is marketing specific but they all offer such excellent insights that you need to think about marketing as an element of a company, not a stand-alone function. Fishkin is the founder of SEO firm Moz, and his book is a page-turner.
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Good luck!
I have some thoughts I want to reply with but I'm busy for a bit; stay tuned.
In the meantime, another good book: https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Yourself-Measure-Clayton-Christensen/dp/1422157997
There is a Scott Adams book that teach you exactly this, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel.
I hope it's OK to repost my answer to a very similar question. The short answer is: it depends. Below is my long answer.
I have done product design for startups for 20 years. You have quite a long road ahead. Here is my suggestion:
Good luck!
I probably break from the conservative majority here but I don't think HuffPo or NYT were deliberately lying when they made that 95% confidence interval about Hillary winning. Nor do I think Nate Silver's analysis was fundamentally wrong.
Nate's prediction was "incorrect" in the same way as me saying "I'm 75% sure you won't draw a spade from that deck" could be proven "wrong" on any one draw. The uncertainty of not knowing the deck is the stand in for a polling error here -- you can make an educated guess, but you can't know. Nate Silver pretty much said "Trump is one normal polling error away from winning" and then that happened. Crowing about landslide victory aside, the victories within the battleground states were not particularly large.
Idiots who assumed 70% was as good as a victory deserved to get the disappointment they got.
NYT and HuffPo read the same polls, but they assumed that the errors in each state would be independent -- sure Wisconsin might be an overestimate for Hillary but then Michigan might be an underestimate for Hillary, and what are the odds that the polls are all wrong in the same direction? Nate Silver assumed the errors would correlate. Nate's assumption was correct -- the errors correlated.
Having seen the analysis, I find it higher quality than people who confidently asserted Trump would win based on whatever intuitive feeling they had about the situation. It knew the limitations of its own analysis. Someone like Scott Adams who made weasel predictions like "Trump will win unless something changes" -- hilarious for someone who wrote this book https://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Way-Weasel-Outwitting-Pants-Wearing/dp/006052149X -- comes across as looking better, but he had a narrative for if he was wrong that would have played almost as well.
So yeah, the people saying Hillary would win fucked up. No malice, just basic mathematical mistakes. Shockingly the guy who used to put money on the line with his odds-reading is better at it.
The people who "knew" Hillary would win were overconfident about their ability to predict in a world of uncertainty, and deserve to get their ass kicked.
Disclaimer: I read Nate's book "The Signal and the Noise" after the 2012 election and found it grounded my assumptions of everything he said after that, so I probably didn't read as much certainty or hubris into anything he said in 2016.
I've been a landlord for a few years, and a few months ago a friend suggested the bigger pocket's book on renting, and I found it to be a great primer on what to do: many of them are things I had already figured out by trial and error, but others that were new to me but great ideas.
If you do get it, I'd recommend a hard copy, not a kindle version, since there are sample forms and things that are useful to have in a physical, printed format.
Happy Saturday! I had a reasonably good day yesterday, although I've had a long week. Tomorrow is Mother's Day, a day I both dread and look forward to in about equal measures. The kids and the husband have been conspiring, I have figured out what I want them to feed me all day, and I have several good shows lined up to binge watch. Mother's Day is rough--I had a terrible relationship with my mom, but she's been gone for almost 20 years and I still miss her constantly. And there's missing babies and loss and just. It's a hard day.
Today, though my mind is clearly elsewhere, I have a proposal and optin to work on. Also a nap.
BQ: I've been using quarterly planning for years, long before I found this place. I really like the 12 Week Year by Brian Moran for helping create your system. There's real magic in this kind of planning, because you can set realistic goals that also stretch you. And I must say, I have come to really value break weeks. I am already looking ahead to the end of this sprint, and the ways in which I'm going to rest and rejuvenate.
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Weekly goals:
5/11 Wireframing due!​
Today:
Marketing: Ask them about how they're measuring their efficacy. What are the KPIs that their organization uses to indicate that their ad dollars went the right place, and why.
Economics: After they're done snickering at whatever the marketer said, ask the economist how they would establish value contribution on a marketing campaign.
HR: Ask how they would help to settle or prevent the resultant fight between Marketing and Analytics/Economics departments.
Also, because I care about you and I want you to succeed, here's a quick and powerful read on time management skills.
Can't recommend this book enough: Getting Naked
QR codes are total garbage. Might as well give you on your campaign now if you plan to use them as it will fail.
You can look up stats on them if you like but they are totally ineffective. Android may have reading built-in but no one uses them still. iOS makes up a huge part of the smartphone market but requires people to download a 3rd party app to read them. No one is going to do that and right there you've lost a HUGE part of your potential.
Use shortened links or something but don't use QR codes.
If you want funny insight into how stupid QR codes are, check out QR Codes Kill Kittens: How to Alienate Customers, Dishearten Employees, and Drive Your Business into the Ground by well know marketer and keynote speaker Scott Stratten
https://www.amazon.com/Codes-Kill-Kittens-Customers-Dishearten/dp/1118732758
I too am a PhD student in Japan. The open secret is that academic publishing is kind of a joke here, and just self-publishing your thesis and pumping out crap it in your university's Kiyo is enough to come off as respectable.
But of course, just because you can get away with doing very little doesn't mean you should. Here's what I would recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Journal-Article-Twelve-Weeks/dp/141295701X
http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804
If you have the time, I would enroll here:
http://fasttrac.org/entrepreneurs/programs/FastTrac%20NewVenture.aspx
If you live in NYC:
Helpful books/resources:
This quote helped me:
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.” -Jim Jarmusch
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Coaching agile teams is amazing. Once you understand the scrum processes read this book. Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0321637704/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yRv3DbZ9B4YY5
I found https://www.amazon.com/Applying-S88-Batch-Control-Perspective/dp/1556177038 to be good.
Sign up for Amazon Audiobooks, you will have a month or so free.. Listen to the following, worth it IMO.. I'll listen to them and drown out the day..
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B76MQNY/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079838BS1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0767N1MM2
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NHZ6PPE
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These two books discuss growth and the issues that go along with it: Scaling Up (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O5RR7QO/) and Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005DI8XV2/).
I highly recommend you read them.
Read the E-Myth by Michael Gerber.
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Contractor-Contractors-Businesses-About/dp/0060938463/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564505663&sr=8-12
I've ordered the book and will check it out.
Not sure what you mean by "where things started to go wrong". Are you saying Agile is a bad choice?
This is one of the greatest business books I have read in a long while, Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
The amount of times I sat up in bed, grabbed my notebook and wrote down ideas to implement the next day was unbelievable. And the cash flow section should be compulsory reading in every university.
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Some people manage the fire of the day ...i dont know if thats sustainable in long term.
https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234
This book was given to me by phd mentor (cuz to him i was useless at the time). I prioritize work kind of by FIFO but i typically start the day by writing my top 3 priorities out and work to getting those done.
Also if you are managing/leading projects delegating your tasks to someone is a great thing.
Also ive used visual kanbans and personal kanbans on a few things to help track where things are...its been very handy and its visual (you can create work in progress for each major step and color code tasks).
http://personalkanban.com/pk/
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I would like to recommend an incredibly short book that could completely change your work life. If you have kids it will help there also, but it is about work.
You can read it in an hour.
The title is silly. The concept is simple but powerful if you are being asked to do more than can be handled, especially if you are the type of person that people come to solve problems.
50% of people that were drowning and to whom I have recommended this book never read it.
Every person that did read it thanked me vigorously.
It's been around for almost 20 years, it was a giant best seller for many years. I am not connected to the book, just a fan.
It is already so short, I can't summarize. Search for summaries on line if you wish, they are out there. There are also lecture videos by the author on line. But it is best if you just read it.
It is for managers but works for anybody working on teams. You owe it to yourself.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804
Yes, this might work.
My solution to this is having a habit tracker in my Bullet Journal. I do not do monthly overviews, I do weekly. I break down my future in to 12-week increments, inspired by this: https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234 (they have a site but no, that seems like corporate management garbage).
Anyways, your horizon for planning is probably shorter than "normies". So why plan six months ahead? I plan 6 weeks. And by plan I just mean I write shit down.
Then for every week I do an overview. What's happening? I've got kids, there are ice skates to pack, activities. Me and the SO have started going to the gym, so which day is that? Just put it down.
And then I have a habit tracker for the week. It is a list and there are squares for all days. So, one habit is meditation. I also note when I am most likely to do it (on the train to work).
For my meds, I have square. And I have noted "at the office". So I open my BuJo everyday at work and check what I didn't do yesterday and decide if I want to migrate etc. I see this thing. Meds. I take the meds and cross it off. Did it 30 minutes ago, working from home, almost forgot, but I always open that god damned lifesaver of a book.
After the week passes, I check my habits. Didn't do them? Why? Do I really want to do them or was something in the way of getting them done? For meditation it can be "forgot headphones", for other things like "read every night" it's just not happening - so I skip that habit. I could not attack reading as a habit, but stretching and meditation and excercise and turning the lights of at 22 are things that I can do this way.
Also, I note morning mood. :-) for a good feeling, :-| for so-so and :-( for shitty.
They correlate 1:1 to wether or not I turned the lights of at 22:00 the night before.
> Except that you forget that sales aren't based solely out of a single location
I never said they were. I'm well aware games get shipped to warehouses.
> When we have an excessive number of copies of a game, we often package them out and ship to our central warehouse.
I'm aware of all of this. Notice why I gave the number of games for the single location I was speaking of? I mentioned 14 because it's a reasonable number to have on hand at a single location for a moderately moving low cost game.
You keep trying to be holier than though and never once asked me my background. You're a store associate acting like they know everything and not a single time been courteous enough to ask "what's your background in business or retail?"
> My point is that if we sell a game for $4.99 and we offer you 28 cents for it, it means that we still reasonably want to have it.
This is just clear proof you haven't read a word I've said. One my focus is more on customer satisfaction. Two, I said if bean counters really looked into it I bet it's worth not buying. How would I know all of this? Why would I come to these conclusions? There can only be two reasons. One I'm a former Gamestop store manager or Two, I'm some random person online... or three I have an MBA and was a retail store manager in the past and corporate restaurant manager... Geez, I wonder which is it since I'm so well aware of the business model and know key industry terms an non college educated associate isn't aware of...
>You STILL have the option not to sell to us.
I'm aware of this. The store also has the option to not buy. You ever sold a comic, book, CD, or sports card at a shop? Ever hung around one long enough to see people come in and try to sell stuff? Those coming in get told no far more than yes. Those that get told No we're overstocked don't get upset. Those offered an insulting amount get upset and are less likely to return.
>As someone who has worked in sales and customer service for over a decade,
So have I. Fun fact anyone can be a retail monkey. It's not hard work; The customer are the stressor but the actual work is easy.
>I pride myself on being respectful and kind in every transaction. You're being rude and ignorant by trying to represent GameStop trade in procedure this way.
Wether your kind or not doesn't change the fact that someone would feel insulted by a low offer. If a friend says something mean to you. You're still going to be hurt by it. If someone offered you $25 for you car you would feel insulted. Now matter how nice they. It doesn't change the fact that your low offer insults them because of the perceived value they have.
You have a decade of sales under your belt but it seems like you fail to understand anything above associate level business. Customer satisfaction is just as important as "buy low sell high." repeat business is just as important. Making customer happy is gravely important. Saying we're overstocked IMO makes for a more happy customer than "here's 10 cents for your game."
> Pretty much everything about your whole "square footage" and "employee time investment" arguments are wrong.
No not at all. Once you get above associate level these are things looked at by corporate or any corporation. This is showing your ignorance if you don't think employee time and square footage come into play. These are very important numbers crunched by bean counters. Faster an employee works, more product can be moved. Every square inch of corporate stores are monitored and controlled tightly to maximize value and marketing hence why you have plan-o-grams. If it wasn't so important then why doesn't corporate let each store lay out stuff like they want? Why doesn't it let each store decorate like it wants? Because it's all tracked and monitored.
Every corporation keeps timed track. Employee time is usually more expensive than the product. When you one day get high enough into corporate of some company maybe... 10 years of being an associate I don't see it in your future but any way. You'll realize that the store you walk into every day isn't done by guesses and hope. It's done by math, tried and tested methods and the hardcore research. That chain of stores you work in wasn't built by "buy low sell high and be nice."
>You're ignoring good customer service
principles,
That's literally been my entire argument and now you're telling me I'm ignoring it... come the fuck on man.
>Plus, the warehouse comment I just made completely screws your "square footage" nonsense, so I'm just gonna ignore that whole bit.
Warehousing falls under the same costs all you have to do in my formula is change the square footage. You keep trying to argue business but it's clear you don't understand anything beyond stocking shelves and buy low sell high. Warehouse storage is so costly that walmart and amazon charge the vendors they buy from storage fees in their warehouses. Just think of that for a second. Costs in warehousing product is so high that when you sell a case of goods to walmart you have to pay them to store it until they ship it out to a store for retail sales.
I'm sure if you could dig into your companies accounting you would see that warehouse storage costs is a concern and tracked. I'm betting you if you talked to a warehouse manager. They would tell you how much they hate ultimate limited editions of games that come with huge statues or items because it fucks up their costs and warehousing flow, organization and storage.
Here's a link to help you with warehousing You also might want to buy some basic business textbooks. Because it's clear you don't know dick beyond stocking shelves and buying low and selling high. It's clear you've never once thought about anything beyond your duties at your job. You think a store magically appears and the corporation keeps on chugging along by luck.
here's a good book about business you proxy should read because it's clear you don't know anything about business. All you know how to do is stock shelves and sell games. It's clear from your writing that you have no grasp of business beyond being a stocking / selling monkey. I tell you what. PM your address and I'll mail you a copy of that book. I'm more than willing to help someone learn and to help them so they don't keep looking ignorant when they speak about business especially when they know nothing about a business they've worked in for ten years.
> I'm sorry you don't like the model. So just buy online and leave us alone. Trust me, we won't miss your business.
You clearly can't comprehend what I've said. In my OP I mentioned not doing business with Gamestop. I quit doing business with them in the mid 2000s. That was after I moved on from my store management position with them. Even back then I was buying and selling my games on eBay because of shit trade in prices. I recall Army of Two for 360. I sold it online for $38 because my store was only going to give me $14 for it.
TL;DR I wouldn't hire you. You clearly know nothing more than being a retail associate who has no grasp of how business truly works yet your pretend to know everything. You think the things I've said aren't factored in to businesses because you've never seen a spread sheet in your life. You proly don't even know the average labor hours of your store. All you know is you're getting 32 this week and bill your friend and you work together on Monday and Wednesday. There's a lot more to business then what a associate is aware of.
A lot of people recommended this book to me: Inspired. More relevant to Product Management than programming, but the concepts are probably useful to anyone in tech.
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How about videos? Valuetainment has amazing entrepreneurial content.
Here's one to start you off: 21 Differences Between Managers & Leaders
As for books, I recommend Scaling Up - Verne Harnish
We use this book: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Managing-Rental-Properties-Screening-ebook/dp/B018W8HSP6
I don't have a specific recommendation; you might just start at the beginning. The production quality goes up over time, but most of the content is always valid. I think the main takeaway is there are so many styles of investing - you need to find what works for you and your goals. We own and rent nice condos because we have capital and are mainly concerned with creating passive cashflow. We're also committed to managing the properties ourselves. Part of that is for cost savings, but also a way to force the skills acquisition we need to be real estate investors.
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Try reading the "Ice Cream" book, Applying S88: Batch Control from a User's Perspective. It was recommended to me from a colleague who worked at Emerson (who developed DeltaV) as a standard introduction to S88 methodology and control implementation.
https://www.amazon.com/Applying-S88-Batch-Control-Perspective/dp/1556177038
Fun fact, DeltaV's hierarchy is laid out using S88 as a basis for the entire program. It is very well laid out in terms of the top down approach S88 suggests. It gives layout suggestions and rules of thumb in equipment organization for scheduling, acquiring, and releasing certain pieces of equipment for the batch's recipe. DeltaV is made for this stuff.
You may also hear about Honeywell Experion's Batch manager (which is total garbage in my professional opinion). It's really only used as a means to quickly migrate legacy Honeywell batch code. You can do the same stuff in their application control environment (ACE) node with recipe control modules and sequential control modules but it's not as well laid out in terms of program hierarchy as DeltaV.
Siemens also has a robust batch program but I'm not too familiar with it.
Have fun though with this type of stuff! Once you get the process vetted and approved with minimal downtime, optimal batch executions and robust troubleshooting/fault handling, it really pays off and feels like you've made a difference. Good Luck!
Before killing yourself to try to promote a company that's paying you less than minimum wage you should make sure you have a clear path to success mapped out. If you double the listeners of this radio station by breaking your back for a pittance -- who's say that the owner/manager decides to hire someone with a more marketing-focused background once they have additional revenue coming in?
A good plan would be to do this: Schedule a meeting with your superior and tell him that you're interested in expanding your roles and responsibility with the organization. Make sure to stress that you're not trying to shirk your current duties and responsibilities but rather you have an interest in helping the company to grow. Ask him, politely but plainly, if company growth could somehow benefit your wages / salary; for example, if you do well and show that you're improving the company over the next 30-60 days, if that could translate directly to another £1. Then another £1. And so on.
Be careful about this because it could backfire and you could lose your job entirely, but it's worth the effort because then at least you know where things stand. Once you know where things stand - go wild. Buy some basic marketing books such as Zag: The Number One Strategy of High Performance Brands and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. These don't necessarily have immediate strategies/tactics, rather they'll help your mind start working properly in terms of what type of marketing strategies can be successful. Then, for immediate strategies, start reading sites like Entrepreneur's Marketing section every day. You'd be surprised at many growth efforts are simply logical. The formula is simple: knowledge + time = growth -> success.
Good luck!
EDIT: Source - I build companies.
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Business-William-Nickels/dp/0078023165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482933422&sr=8-1&keywords=Understanding+Business
https://www.amazon.com/World-Art-8th-Henry-Sayre/dp/0134081803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482933450&sr=8-1&keywords=World+of+Art+8th+Edition
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>Thanks for your answer, I do understand that I've got to meet them where they are at and iterate towards a more agile and Scrum specific mode of working.
I feel like there's a 'but' here. :) if you have more questions, please ask.
>You make a good point that while they are not all able to work on everything now, the plan is that they will get there so they may as well work through refinement together starting now.
Transformation isn't instantaneous, so you have the right idea now. change at this scale can be difficult. go for the easy wins and then go for the harder ones later. Remember some of the core tenants of leadership. There are things you should align to and things you should manage. where are you aligning? Is everyone aligned? where are you managing?
A few books that might help you out:
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Mastery-Good-Great-Servant-Leadership/dp/0957587406
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783/
https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Concept/dp/0321437381/
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Agile-Teams-ScrumMasters-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637704
I'm leaving a few books out that you have probably read, like Phoenix Project and 5 dysfunctions of a team. If you haven't read these you should. The above books go over a few advanced topics and should cover any gaps you might have in your foundation of knowledge.
Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brandsby Amazon.comLearn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321426770/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_z5T3DbMG90GKZ
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This book came out before insta gram, that's why I like it. You need to have a defined brand and then all post should be supporting your brand. That's my personal opinion and what do I know, my insta sucks.
you should start with this book, very basic and accessible:
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Business-Irwin-Introduction/dp/0078023165/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
Look for older editions cheap
Books on project management, software development lifecycle, history of computing/programming, and other books on management/theory. It's hard to read about actual programming if you can't practice it.
Some of my favorites:
You can't exactly learn to program without doing, but hopefully these books will give you good ideas on the theories and management to give you the best understanding when you get out. They should give you an approach many here don't have to realize that programming is just a tool to get to the end, and you can really know before you even touch any code how to best organize things.
IF you have access to a computer and the internet, look into taking courses on Udacity, Coursera, and EDX. Don't go to or pay for any for-profit technical school no matter how enticing their marketing may tell you you'll be a CEO out of their program.
I have to say I was disappointed by this book--I really enjoyed Making Ideas Happen, even it was a little one-note, because Belsky's consistency made sure his singular message was hammered home. This (and the forthcoming followup looks no better) was just a bunch of 3-4 page pieces with largely unoriginal or underexplored approaches.
If you need a business productivity book that has big picture approaches without micromanaging your task tracking (cough GTD cough) I really like older-school stuff like HBR's On Managing Yourself.
The title essay, by Peter Drucker (pdf) is a must read for anybody trying to be more productive in a business context.
No problem and happy cakeday!
Weasel Book
Copywriter's Handbook
Ogilvy on Advertising
My Life in Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
Pick Me: Breaking into Advertising and Staying there - By Nancy Vonk Invaluable to me when I was in school. Read it more than my textbooks
Zag: The Number one strategy for high performance brands
Tipping Point - Malcom Gladwell
Get her two books by Marty Neumeier: The Brand Gap and Zag. They're about branding and give very clear insights. These books changed my whole outlook on design and they're great reads. I'm easily bored with reading but these are written in informal language and illustrated, and the chapters are bite-sized chunks. Every graphic designer should read them. Here's the brand gap: http://www.amazon.com/The-Brand-Gap-Distance-Business/dp/0321348109 and here's zag: http://www.amazon.com/Zag-Number-Strategy-High-Performance-Brands/dp/0321426770/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348675026&sr=1-1&keywords=zag
If someone wants to know what this is about, check out Marty Neumeier's slideshow from The Brand Gap: http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap
100% go. And no this is not a gamble. Living how you are living now is a gamble.
You said school does not start until September. You should move out there now. Take a few days to scout for places to stay and look for jobs that will not interfere when school starts.
Check in with local churches, YMCA, Salvation Army. They have resources to help you find a living space.
Once everything is set up, start working the job you found. This way by the time school starts, you'll have steady income and less stress for money related issues such as when and where will my next meal come from.
Also, how strong is your sales skills? I know several people that can find stuff cheap and sell at a profit. Not their main job, but make a couple of thousand a month doing it. And they don't put a lot of time in to it. Easiest one is to find older cars that people are selling for $500 for quick sale. Stick with early 90s muscle cars. They can easily be turned for $1000 to $2000. Just make sure they run. (Also bear in mind my buddy does not sign the title as buyer. Open title purchases, we'll if caught can lead to a ticket, but that's up to you. Titling a car just to sell it can be pricey. Heck even my dad has done this. He helped some one move from the south to Montana. Instead of renting a car to get back, he bought a car for $600. Drove it home and sold it for $900.
One last thing. Don't think about camping or staying in your car. First month or 2 this may be fine. December and January can be brutally cold for long stretches at a time. You'll be miserable, which will make going to school and working very difficult if your living conditions make you depressed.
Good luck and remember one thing. Computers are stupid. They can only count to 1.
Edit: Also I recommend getting the book The 12 week year. I understand you can get the E-version free from amazon. Read it and do what it says. It's not a gimmick. It is how to make and achieve your goals. It teaches you how to set up and achieve your goals. I don't know anyone who is successful that does not come up with a goal and then plans out how to achieve the goal. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118509234/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469194601&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=the+12+week+year&dpPl=1&dpID=51hvFjxxw3L&ref=plSrch