The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions #theleanmindset #vbooks
What company doesn't want energized workers, delighted customers, genuine efficiency, and breakthrough innovation? 

The Lean Mindset shows how lean companies really work-and how a lean mindset is the key to creating stunning products and delivering amazing services. Through cutting-edge research and case studies from leading organizations, including Spotify, Ericsson, Intuit, GE Healthcare, Pixar, CareerBuilder, and Intel, you'll discover proven patterns for developing that mindset. You'll see how to cultivate product teams that act like successful startups, create the kind of efficiency that attracts customers, and leverage the talents of bright, creative people. The Poppendiecks weave lean principles throughout this book, just as those principles must be woven throughout the fabric of your truly lean organization. 

Learn How To Start with an inspiring purpose, and overcome the curse of short-term thinking Energize teams by providing well-framed challenges, larger purposes, and a direct line of sight between their work and the achievement of those purposes 

Delight customers by gaining unprecedented insight into their real needs, and building products and services that fully anticipate those needs 

Achieve authentic, sustainable efficiency without layoffs, rock-bottom cost focus, or totalitarian work systems 

Develop breakthrough innovations by moving beyond predictability to experimentation, beyond globalization to decentralization, beyond productivity to impact
Lean approaches to software development have moved from novelty to widespread use, in large part due to the principles taught by Mary and Tom Poppendieck in their pioneering books. 

Now, in The Lean Mindset, the Poppendiecks take the next step, looking at a company where multidiscipline teams are expected to ask the right questions, solve the right problems, and deliver solutions that customers love.

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Gather successful people from all walks of life -- what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!
A Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success.

The 11 keys to successful thinking include:


Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas

Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential

Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs

Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results

Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.

THINK STRAIGHT 

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.

#thinkstraight #vbooks
I know something about you without knowing you. I bet you spend a lot of time in your head. You know, thinking, worrying, stressing, freaking out - call it whatever you want. I call it a preoccupied mind. And with what? Ninety-nine percent of your thoughts are useless. William James, once the leading psychologist in America, and one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism, put it best: "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." Pragmatism believes that the mind is a tool. Your mind should work for you, not against you. People who don't master their mind, don't believe it's possible. They say: "I can't help but thinking these things." Well, you can take control of your mind with enough practice. I've done it. And in Think Straight, I share exactly how. It's a quick listen, and you can use it to immediately to improve your thinking. You have the ability to decide what you think. Or, you can choose not to think. And that is one of the most important and most practical things you can learn in life. Before I learned that skill, I would spend hours and hours inside my head. Just think about how much you think: "I wonder what my boss thinks?" "What happens if I screw up and lose my job?" "What if my business never takes off?" "Does she love me?" "Why does my life suck?" "What if I get cancer?" "I can't finish anything. What's wrong with me?" And the list goes on. Think Straight reveals the recipe for taking control of your mind, so you can improve your life, career, relationships, and business. I wrote this little book in a way that you can listen to it more than once. And I hope that this book serves as an anchor to you - especially during trying times. The mind is the most powerful tool on earth. Change the way you think. And you'll change your life.