Here it is, friends! Our book The agile Manager (small "a") is out now in paperback and ebook.
300 pages of our thoughts on New Ways of Working and Managing. Especially managing, the key that unlocks advancement to New Ways
Belief is like a red helium balloon. You can't bear to let go of it. But letting go is easy, and once you do it floats away and you wonder why you ever held it.
Work, politics, race, religion... try it with ever larger balloons.
The world changes, beliefs don't. They deflate.
This book is about how to run services, in any organisation, in any industry. It describes the basics, the core stuff, in realistic pragmatic terms. And it is pragmatically brief - we kept it to 50 paperback pages.
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