Transforming a company's digital product development capabilities is a monumental task that can leave even the most seasoned leaders feeling completely overwhelmed. Traditional approaches to training often fail to have their desired impact. Instead of transformation, you get piecemeal improvements that don't lead to significant change. Here's the truth: if you want learning that sticks, you need a dojo. In Creating Your Dojo, experienced dojo coaches Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart guide you through creating a dojo--an immersive learning environment-- within your organization. A dojo enables your teams to learn new skills within the context of their real-world work. You'll create a thriving product development culture where team members feel empowered to solve their own problems. Your organization will improve the quality of the products they deliver, reduce delivery cycle time, and create innovative products with better product/market fit.
A successful digital transformation must start with a conversational transformation. Today, software organizations are transforming the way work gets done through practices like Agile, Lean, and DevOps. But as commonly implemented as these methods are, many transformations still fail, largely because the organization misses a critical step: transforming their culture and the way people communicate. Agile Conversations brings a practical, step-by-step guide to using the human power of conversation to build effective, high-performing teams to achieve truly Agile results. Consultants Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick show readers how to utilize the Five Conversations to help teams build trust, alleviate fear, answer the “whys,” define commitments, and hold everyone accountable.These five conversations give teams everything they need to reach peak performance, and they are exactly what’s missing from too many teams today. Stop focusing on processes and practices that leave your organization stuck with culture-less rituals. Instead, unleash the unique human power of conversation.
The most significant difference between a grandmaster and a club player is not simply that the grandmaster calculates more accurately, but rather that he sees more deeply. This book invites you beneath the surface, where you can learn to navigate the depths of chess. Jan Markos shows how a strong player perceives chess, which features of a position he focuses on, and how he thinks at the board. The author's philosophy is that understanding chess brings pure happiness, and he would like to share this happiness with you. "In his new book, GM Jan Markos focuses on important, yet often neglected, aspects of chess. He deals with this interesting and difficult topic excellently, making fine use of his chess and teaching abilities. The book is highly readable and belongs among the best chess books I have read in recent years. Although the book is intended to be read by amateurs, even grandmasters will find it interesting and useful. If you want to learn more about chess and don't mind thinking independently, this is the book for you." GM David Navara
A pioneering book on a new kind of leadership—one that draws on body awareness, ancient wisdom, and real-life corporate examples to empower the modern leader to “do well and do good at the same time" (James N. Baron, Yale School of Management). History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness, the book presents key principles such as shugyo, or self-cultivation, as crucial in developing the individual responsibility, social commitment, and moral and spiritual vision required to lead with authority and efficacy. The Leadership Dojo is based on three questions: What does a leader do? What are the character values most essential to exemplary leadership? How do you teach these values? Drawing on the wisdom of ages from Plato to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Thucydides to the Abidharma, the book asserts that understanding and answering these questions holds the key to superior leadership skills. Strozzi-Heckler teaches with real-world examples based on his wide experience training decision-makers at companies like AT&T and Microsoft. The book’s multifaceted approach helps readers establish a powerful Leadership Presence, a platform from which they can take ethical action with compassion and pragmatic wisdom. “I would not dream of leading a team without relying on the teachings of Richard Strozzi-Heckler. It would be like skiing without the snow.” —Nancy J. Hutson, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Research & Development
The Dojo toolkit provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser -- everything from its standard JavaScript library and turnkey widgets to build tools and a testing framework. This comprehensive guide to Dojo includes a hard-hitting reference to help you build rich and responsive web applications with complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications. If you're a DHTML-toting web developer, you need to read this book.
Introduces coding using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, providing step-by-step instructions for creating a website and adding photos, embedding videos, and using file transfer programs--
CoderDojo Nano: Make Your Own Game teaches the fundamentals of the Javascript coding language in a simple, logical way to help kids reach their goal of creating their very own PC game. Children will learn everything from creating a game world, animating characters and determining the physics of movement within the game. Each concept is illustrated with a screenshot to make checking easy, and incredible pixel art from Army of Trolls makes this look like no other coding book. Coder Dojo Nano: Make Your Own Game is the perfect first step that kids can take towards game development. Look out for other titles in the CoderDojo Nano series: CoderDojo Nano: Build Your Own Website.
The book is an example-based tutorial. Once the basics are done, it takes the reader through creating a number of examples, each focussed on a different interface task or visual effect. This book is for web developers with JavaScript knowledge, who want to use Dojo for developing dynamic Web 2.0 applications. Readers need basic web-page creation skills, HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript.
Cash Flow Dojo Book Summary Cash Flow Dojo is a comprehensive guide to financial freedom. For the first time ever, you can finally unleash your full financial potential by learning exactly how to build multiple income streams that you can use to grow your bottom line faster and more passively than ever before. In today's world, it isn't unlikely to rely on two streams of income in order to sustain your lifestyle. In fact, it's almost a given! Written by a dedicated and professional speaker, thought leader, real estate investment coach, and best-selling author with years of experience as a self-made entrepreneur and successful real estate investor, Martin Saenz is proud to unlock the secret strategies, tips, and tactics that you need to expand your cash flow quickly. Through this comprehensive guidebook, you'll learn how to craft a custom road mal for your future, how to build a brand that attracts great deals, how to cultivate and immerse yourself in a supportive community of investors, and how to leverage a Win/Win situation while building additional income streams. For Martin, nothing is more important than ensuring that he's able to convey his experience, his knowledge, and his strategies in a clear and succinct manner, so that people from all walks of life can benefit from what he has to share. This book assumes that there's simply no such thing as a one size fits all solution, because everyone's situation is different. With that in mind, Martin provides a thoughtful skills-building guidebook that allows you to develop the knowledge, skills, and experience required to generate cash flow through multiple income streams. From there, you can finally give yourself the chance that you deserve to live your life financially free and financially independent! About Martin Saenz Throughout an extensive and accomplished career, Martin has demonstrated a proven ability to grow asset value, income, and knowledge not just for his company, but for his investors, borrows, proteges, and readers as well. Along with his best-selling books, Martin also offers a number of online courses to educate those interested in learning more about investing, business building, and financial freedom. Constantly committed to providing the right knowledge and resources to readers to help them reach their success goals with passive income strategies, Martin remains cutting-edge in his research and tactics. Martin's track record speaks for itself, and he continues to write books under his new publisher, NIME Publishing House.
