Appelo - Management 3.0 Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients

Endorsements

Jurgen's book is practical and fun, but most of all, it's subversive. If you care enough to get started, you'll discover that these tools will transform everything about your organization.

- Seth Godin , author of The Icarus Deception

Brilliant, counter-intuitive, and creative approach to management. Very insightful and humanistic. Highly recommended!

- Derek Sivers , Founder of CD Baby , TED speaker, author of Anything You Want

Management 3.0 #Workout is the best walkabout in a constantly evolving landscape of management.

- Tomas Rybing , Director Project Management at Aptilo Networks

In our always-on, real-time world, the nature of work has changed, potentially for the better. While people can be more autonomous and more productive, they can also self-destruct easier. Jurgen tackles these important changes in his fun and interesting book.

- David Meerman Scott , bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR

Don't wait for managers to fix management problems around you. Be the manager of your own fate and take action instead! This insightful book will not only help you get on the right track, but will also teach you how to enable people around you, so that you can create a better working environment for yourself.

- Kamil Posiadaa , Agile Software Developer

Engage people, improve work, and delight clients: these are the tenets of this amazing book, which will show you how to transform the entire layer of management in your organization into a wellspring creativity, productivity, and engagement. Excellent!

- Marshall Goldsmith , a Thinkers 50 , Top Ten Global Business Thinker and top-ranked Executive Coach

Today all managers are marketers. You need to sell your ideas, your plans, and your solutions. Management 3.0 #Workout sets you on a path to success in a world where we are each responsible for managing our own career and our own contribution to the world.

- Penelope Trunk , author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success

How do you become one of the best managers in the world? Sports professionals would hire a good coach and exercise daily. Management 3.0 #Workout from Jurgen Appelo is your personal coach who gives you tons of exercises and practical advice for the modern manager. The only thing you need to add is the daily exercising.

- Tobias Leisgang , Systems Engineering Manager at Texas Instruments

In a rapidly changing world where predictable Newtonian doctrine is no longer up to the challenges being placed on managers, Jurgen Appelos timely book provides an incredibly accessible leap into the thinking that is likely to define the manager of tomorrow.

- Deane Sloan , Chief Technology Officer at Equinox IT

Want to know what the next stage of management may look like? Do yourself a favor and take a look at Management 3.0 #Workout by Jurgen Appelo. Chock full of management nuggets as well as exercises and activities, Management 3.0 #Workout provides insights into how to engage the next generation workforce.

- John Baldoni , author of MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership , chair at N2Growth

Do you want a feel-good book about management? Enjoy reading Management 3.0 #Workout. Every chapter is full of aha moments. I read it in public transport, and I reached the office with a smile and great ideas to improve the workplace.

- Jeanne Estelle Thebault , President of Montreal IIBA Chapter

Steering a software factory team of 400 people, Im confronted every day with the challenge to unleash the best out of our people and our teams in order for happy customers to receive high quality software every two weeks. This book provides our teams with insights, tools, stories, games to keep our people doing the right thing right, with passion.

- Johan Lybaert , Director of Applications at Cegeka

Do you dream of a management more adapted to the complexity of our world? Great news, this is a reality! Management 3.0 #Workout by Jurgen Appelo is the toolbox of the agile gardener who promotes collaboration, builds the team around common values, grows skills and motivates his co-workers. You have now the keys to change the world. Like me, read this inspiring book and cultivate happiness in your organization.

- Loc Leofold , CEO & Agile Coach at NEOWIND

Leadership is hard to get right, but with a decent set of tools and exercises, the job is immeasurably easier. This book offers those tools, exercises and above all, insight into how a 21st century manager behaves. Work and the workforce is fundamentally different compared to how it was even a decade ago and Jurgen's book helps engage and enthuse the reader to become a better manager and lead their team to success.

- Mike Pearce , Development Manager at MOO.com

If management is too important to leave it to managers only, then the agile management practices described by Jurgen Appelo in this book are way too valuable to apply them only to IT environment. Motivated, nimble and versatile teams are a pillar of success in today's world of financial services. You will find out how to build them from this book!

- Tomasz Sitkowski , acting CRO at mBank CZ/SK

As the current Generation enjoys work-life integration, people will look and respond to 'lean forward' management. Management 3.0 #Workout will provide a complete guide to step out of the office and contribute to a culture of success as a goal while having fun as your journey.

- Sebastian Dieguez , Agile Coach and Evangelist

Many authors make claims, but Jurgen Appelo delivers on them. He offers a combination of crisp, articulate thoughts in an easy, engaging read. If you're looking for actionable advice that will help you build a better, stronger and more productive relationship with those you lead, then I'd highly recommend you read Jurgen's book.

- Mike Myatt , author of Hacking Leadership , a Forbes leadership columnist, and founder at N2Growth

Theres another way to envision management. In this book, Jurgen Appelo is offering practices and exercises you can easily try, to change your own environment. While developing your management talent, you will say, like me: Thank You Jurgen!

- Alexis Monville , Chief Agility Officer at eNovance , Co-founder of Ayeba

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Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients (Management 3.0 series)

Jurgen Appelo

Foreword

Theres a time to think, a time to act, and a time to celebrate. Now is a moment to celebrate, because you started reading the outcome of two years of hard work, full of thinking and acting, and Im happy to play a small role as the master of ceremonies at this celebration.

Eleven years ago, I met Jurgen at a birthday party of a mutual friend, and it was clear to me he was good at thinking, not so much at partying. Having a weak spot for bright people, I hired him as a Development Manager at my business, ISM eCompany. Some time later, we updated his job title to Chief Information Officer, a role in which he could do anything he wanted, as long as he helped keep developers happy, customers excited, and the business profitable.

It isnt always easy, leading an organization; in fact, it rarely is. Clients cannot describe precisely what they want, but they know they want it fast. Employees have no idea how to make better decisions, but they know they want less work and more money. And managers? It sometimes seems the best a manager can hope for is to balance dissatisfaction equally among all stakeholders.