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Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.

OKRs are about goals bigger than the next story, or even epic. They prioritise purpose and strategy over the ever looming, high maintenance backlogs we all know too well. OKRs are important to agile teams because they deal with the big things, they inspire forward thinking, encourage engage senior leaders, and help debug strategy. Acclaimed author Allan Kelly describes why you should use OKRs, how to write them successfully, how to set measurable KRs, execute against OKRs in an agile environment to deliver outcomes, and the pitfalls and problems to avoid so you can deliver your outcomes.

In The Scrum Master Files, trusted coach and certified scrum trainer Angela Johnson takes you through her journey from project manager to scrum master. She helps you learn through her own failures what it means to coach developers, product owners, and organizations in changing the way they work with scrum. The case studies in this book put you in the scrum master role and help you see what went wrong and how to make things right using real-world scenarios. The secrets shared in this book are not exclusive to scrum masters!

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

In this practical guide, Cloé Caron, PCC shares her unique O2coaching 5C Leadership and Team Efficiency Model and her Unique Strategic Contribution (USC) concept with you. As an experienced coach and leadership consultant, founder and president of o2Coaching, a public speaker and author, Cloé has helped hundreds of leaders and their teams improve their strategic posture and team efficiency. With 20 years of experience, her book is sure to make you reflect on the required behaviors needed to achieve concrete and sustainable results.

In Amplifiers, entrepreneur and expert management and technology consultant Tom Finegan delivers an insightful new way to think about human behavior in the execution of corporate transformations. Through an exploration of the career journeys of several leaders and analyses of "True Amplifiers" in action, the book demonstrates how to deliver strategic and transformative change by relying on the efforts of key, exemplary followers. This important book: