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What You Do Is Who You Are: Review & Reception

How has the book What You Do Is Who You Are been received? What’s the book’s context and approach? What You Do Is Who You Are, published in 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers, is an exploration of four unique historical models of leaders who designed successful cultures that supported their vision and strategy. Author Ben Horowitz extracts techniques that modern-day leaders can apply to their own culture-building. Keep reading for a What You Do Is Who You Are review.

What Makes a Successful Team: The 3 Traits

Are you wondering what makes a successful team? In what ways do most businesses focus on the wrong achievements? Jeff Sutherland, software developer and management expert, believes that too much emphasis is put on individual achievements when it comes to business teams. Sutherland thinks that team accomplishments should be celebrated instead, and team accomplishments depend on three traits. Here’s why ambition, freedom, and integrated purpose are what makes teams successful.

How to Perform an 80/20 Analysis of Your Business

How does the Pareto 80/20 rule apply in business? How can you identify the 20% of inputs and activities that make the most difference to your business’s bottom line? In any company, you can predict that 80% of profits are generated by 20% of inputs in each domain, including customers, products, employees, and departments. According to Richard Koch, there are two ways you can identify the top-performing 20% of those inputs: conducting an 80/20 Analysis and applying 80/20 Reasoning. Let’s briefly review each method.

The 3 Most Important Qualities of a Leader

What are the most important qualities of a leader? Why is humbleness an important leadership trait? In their book Execution, business leaders Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan share the qualities you must embody to be a great leader. According to the authors, without these qualities, you will simply not be able to execute and succeed. Here are the most important qualities of a leader, according to Bossidy and Charan.

Ben Horowitz: What You Do Is Who You Are

What’s an intentional culture? What can you learn from historical cultures to apply to your own workplace? Ben Horowitz’s What You Do Is Who You Are argues that culture is the way employees make decisions and act based on their perception of underlying premises and shared beliefs. Culture derives from what leaders state explicitly and also what they enforce implicitly by example and through the organization’s incentive structure. Leaders’ actions and messaging inform employees’ behavior. Therefore, Horowitz argues that it’s important to be intentional about the culture you’re designing. If you’re not intentional in shaping your culture, your employees will

6 Disadvantages of the Waterfall Model

What is the Waterfall Model in business? What are the disadvantages of the Waterfall Model? The Waterfall Model (or the “Waterfall Method”) is one of the most common management methods in America. This model uses a step-by-step approach to project management where each stage has a set deadline and budget. It sounds good in theory, but projects using this method typically end up behind schedule and over budget. Here’s why the Waterfall Model doesn’t work.

What Is the Scrum Method? The 2 Key Principles

What is the Scrum method? How is the Scrum method better than traditional management methods? Although it’s widely used in software engineering today, the Scrum method was first introduced in 1995 by software developer and management expert Jeff Sutherland. Despite the fact that his book Scrum never took off, the Scrum method itself did. Here’s a look at the Scrum method and its origins.

Scrum Book Review: Reception and Critical Analysis

Are you looking for a Scrum book review? Is Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum method all it’s cracked up to be? According to software developer and management expert Jeff Sutherland, most companies’ methods to build products are misguided and lead to inefficiencies. That’s why he created the Scrum method, which focuses on flexibility and productivity. Here’s our Scrum book review, including background on the book, critical reception, and analysis.

How to Improve Your Business’s Bottom Line

Do you want to take your business to the next level? What can you, as a business owner, do to increase your customer satisfaction and improve your company’s bottom line? With business—as with anything in life—there’s always room for improvement. Once your business starts turning profit, the next step is to identify ways you can improve so you can keep growing and adding value to your customers. Here are four strategic tips on how to improve your business’s bottom line.

5 Ways to Build Self-Esteem in the Workplace

What role does self-esteem play in one’s professional success? How can organizations help their employees foster healthy self-esteem? Self-esteem has grown essential to both economic and professional success. In such a world, companies must keep up with constantly changing realities and ever-increasing global competition—which requires employees with high self-esteem. Here’s what companies can do to promote employees’ self-esteem in the workplace.