Unmanageable

Author : Mickey W. Mantle
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 0132981254
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unmanageable written by Mickey W. Mantle and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mantle and Lichty have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice are great blueprints for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” —Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora “I wish I’d had this material available years ago. I see lots and lots of ‘meat’ in here that I’ll use over and over again as I try to become a better manager. The writing style is right on, and I love the personal anecdotes.” —Steve Johnson, VP, Custom Solutions, DigitalFish All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget. Although adding some formal discipline to the development process has improved the situation, it has by no means solved the problem. How can it be, with so much time and money spent to get software development under control, that it remains so unmanageable? In Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty answer that persistent question with a simple observation: You first must make programmers and software teams manageable. That is, you need to begin by understanding your people—how to hire them, motivate them, and lead them to develop and deliver great products. Drawing on their combined seventy years of software development and management experience, and highlighting the insights and wisdom of other successful managers, Mantle and Lichty provide the guidance you need to manage people and teams in order to deliver software successfully. Whether you are new to software management, or have already been working in that role, you will appreciate the real-world knowledge and practical tools packed into this guide.

Author : Johnathan Nightingale
Publisher : Raw Signal Press
ISBN 13 : 9780995964327
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmanageable: Leadership Lessons from an Impossible Year written by Johnathan Nightingale and published by Raw Signal Press. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything about work changed in 2020. Billions of people were sent home from the office, unsure of what they'd be coming back to, or when. Organizations crammed decades of transformation into weeks. And every leader was asked for the same, impossible thing: clarity. Bestselling authors and management experts Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale capture a year of leadership lessons, from the first COVID lockdowns to the first anniversary. Unmanageable is the definitive read on how it felt to adapt, reinvent, and lead during the most tumultuous time in a generation. From the early chaos, to unending burnout, and the unprecedented turnover that followed, the pandemic laid bare the cracks in the old rules of work. Unmanageable introduces the new rules, and offers a practical and essential guide for what comes next. If you want to understand the future of work, start here.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847878326
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unmanageable Consumer written by Yiannis Gabriel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings' - Madeleine Bunting, Columnist, The Guardian Western-style consumerism appears unstoppable. Yet it is has failed to deliver greater happiness and is now facing major environmental, population and political challenges. This book examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter posits a consumer model with examples from the international community. Readers are invited to enter an exciting and radical analysis of contemporary consumerism which suggests that consumerism is fragile and consumers unpredictable. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technologies on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and 'consumer' language in spheres like education and health. The authors discuss the spread of consumerism to developing countries like India and the effect of demographic change and migration. The fallout from 9/11 and United States military hegemony is examined, as is the influence on consumerism of Islamic fundamentalism, the anti-globalization movement, environmental concerns and depleting natural resources. This book is of interest to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on behaviour, buyer behaviour, customer behaviour, consumers and society and retailing. Any one interested in better understanding consumerism will also find this book a fascinating read.

Author : Anne Loehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781601631619
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unmanageable written by Anne Loehr and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly globally diverse workforce, it's vitally important that leaders understand their team inside and out. This takes a new toolbox of skills for the 21st century. "Managing the Unmanageable" will give readers practical tips and proven techniques to show them how to develop new strategies for attracting and retaining the most talented employee before they become unmanageable, learn key words that will allow them to clearly communicate with every generation on their team, and much more.

Author : Ravinder Kumar Jain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471146131
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management of Research and Development Organizations written by Ravinder Kumar Jain and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has been completely revised. The authors, noted authorities in the field, focus on ways to improve R&D organization productivity and foster excellence in such companies. They describe how to design jobs, organize hierarchies, resolve conflicts, motivate employees, and create an innovative work environment. Features extensive cross-cultural coverage of European and Pacific Rim R&D organizations and policies which greatly differ from the US. Includes an entirely new section on various strategic planning elements unique to an R&D organization along with a case study.

Author : Jackie Craven
Publisher : Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap
ISBN 13 : 9781632430274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lives Became Unmanageable written by Jackie Craven and published by Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Kate Bernheimer as winner of the 2014 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest

Author : Anne Loehr
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601636652
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unmanageable written by Anne Loehr and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who changed the rules of business? It’s a different game now. In an increasingly globally diverse workforce, it’s vitally important that leaders understand their team inside and out. This takes a new toolbox of skills for the 21st century. Today you need winning strategies to avoid the costly pitfalls of high turnover, low morale and poor collaboration, not to mention the cost of missed deadlines and incomplete projects. Managing the Unmanageable will give you practical tips and proven techniques to show you how to: Understand what’s driving your unmanageable employee. Evaluate the costs and benefits of turning him around. Enroll her in that effort, and help her become a valued member of your team. Guide all your employees to greater innovation, cooperation, and effectiveness. Communicate effectively with each of the three generations in today’s workplace

Author : Jessica M. Mulligan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814770703
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmanageable Care written by Jessica M. Mulligan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an HMO and records what it’s really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted. It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed care organization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health plan, and into the homes of health plan members who recount their experiences navigating the new managed care system. In the 1990s and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of the island’s public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabled into for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promote efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high quality care. Despite the optimistic promises of market-based reforms, the system became more expensive, not more efficient; patients rarely behaved as the expected health-maximizing information processing consumers; and care became more chaotic and difficult to access. Citizens continued to look to the state to provide health services for the poor, disabled, and elderly. This book argues that pro-market reforms failed to deliver on many of their promises. The health care system in Puerto Rico was dramatically transformed, just not according to plan.

Author : Mickey W. Mantle
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 032182203X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unmanageable written by Mickey W. Mantle and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike. All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget.

Author : Mike Cecil
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1636982794
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Unmanageable written by Mike Cecil and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the Unmanageable empowers current and aspiring managers to unlock the full potential of their teams, by recognizing and embracing the unique qualities of top performers who thrive when given the freedom to explore beyond traditional boundaries. At its core, Managing the Unmanageable advocates for a management style that treats individuals with utmost dignity, respect, and autonomy—an approach that not only fosters their personal growth but also cultivates unwavering loyalty. It offers a fresh perspective on effective management by addressing a pervasive problem faced by managers across industries: the challenge of harnessing the full potential of exceptional employees who resist being confined by rigid rules and limitations. Mike Cecil distills the lessons learned throughout his extensive 42-year career in the construction industry, where he encountered a myriad of managers—both successful and unsuccessful. He provides relatable anecdotes, practical advice, and insightful strategies to equip management professionals with the tools they need to unleash the full potential of their teams. By embracing the principles outlined in Managing the Unmanageable, managers will be able to create an environment where top performers thrive, leading to increased productivity, employee satisfaction, and long-term success for both individuals and organizations.