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Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age
A new age is upon us and it’s time to celebrate. Please join me as my partners and I fete the publication of Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age with a truly amazing array of FREE supplementary Agile leadership and management tools from all around the world, including US, UK, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and India. If you buy Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age now, then as of 4:00 pm Thursday February 8, you’ll get access to all these gifts to at no extra cost to you. (Note: some bonus gifts are in LIMITED QUANTITIES and others for 48 HOURS ONLY.)
How do you get access to the gifts? Simple. After you order the book from Amazon, come back to this webpage and enter your Amazon order number in the form at the bottom of this page and as of Thursday February 8, 2018 at 4:00 pm (US EST), you will be given access to all these FREE supplementary Agile leadership and management tools,. Make a note of that day and time, because some of the gifts are limited in time or number, and they will go fast. For details of the tools and gifts, scroll down this webpage. Here’s a quick overview of this amazing array:
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Bonus Gift #01
Richard Sheridan CEO: Seats in the 5-day Menlo Innovations Deep Dive (value $3,650)
Richard Sheridan is offering up to 3 seats in one of Menlo Innovations 5-day Deep Dive Workshops. Menlo Innovations is a custom software design and development company with a radically different approach to workplace culture— one intentionally designed to produce joy. Every year, thousands of visitors come to Ann Arbor, Michigan to see to learn how to create a workplace people love. Deep Dive Into the Menlo Way™ is an in-depth experience of everything Menlo. This 5-day overview and workshop combine hands-on experience with world-class instruction in three focused sessions: Intro to The Menlo Way™ (Day 1), Project Management: The Menlo Way™ (Day 2), and High-Tech Anthropology® (Day 3-5). You will receive up to 40 credit hours towards a PMP certification. Throughout this week-long excursion, you will learn about Menlo’s unique culture, discover and practice specific processes and walk away with strategies for implementing Menlo’s processes in your organization [LIMITED NUMBERS]
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Bonus Gift #02
Rita McGrath & Steve Denning: Invitation only webinar: Are your metrics leading you astray? (value $800)
A common complaint among executives trying, and failing, to drive profitable growth in their organizations is that short-term quarterly pressures prevent them from making longer-term investments. In this interactive, in person webinar, Columbia Business School Professor Rita McGrath and Author, columnist and management expert Steven Denning, challenge this core assumption. McGrath will present a new metric, the Imagination Premium ™ that provides executives with an alternative to the straitjacket of conventional metrics, and she and Steve will discuss how differently leaders need to manage in the future. Provide your contact details for an exclusive invitation. [LIMITED NUMBERS]
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Bonus Gift #03
Adrian Swinscoe: A 1-hour consultation on wowing your customers & a signed copy of his best-selling book (Value $2,500)
Want to learn how to wow your customers and make their experience amazing? Customer experience is at the heart of the Agile revolution. It is the battleground on which companies and brands compete to thrive—or die. Adrian Swinscoe, a leading consultant, Forbes contributor and best-selling author on customer service and customer experience, is offering seven 1-hour consultations in which you can pick his brains on anything to do with customer service and customers experience. Each consultation will be accompanied by a signed copy of his best-selling 2016 book ‘How To Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing’. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #04
Stephen Forte & Steve Denning: The inside story on Silicon Valley: Exclusive 1.5 hour conversation (Value $2,000)
Stephen Forte is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Capital. Prior to Fresco, he was Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools and acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Previously, he founded and operated the Mach5 accelerator in Silicon Valley, AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong’s first startup accelerator, and the Laudato Si’ Challenge Accelerator, the Vatican’s first accelerator. He is also the co-founder of several startups. Steve Forte and Steve Denning are offering an exclusive 1.5 hour limited-place no-holds-barred conversation about what’s really going on in Silicon Valley and the venture capital world. It’s open to the first 20 applicants. Steve Forte will give his take on current trends in tech today, including finance, regulation, AI, crypto, and AR/VR. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #05
Agile For All’s Bob Hartman: Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) course (Value $2,500)
Become a certified Agile leader and discover how you can harness the benefits of Agile, Lean and other creative organizational approaches to achieve healthy business growth in the midst of unpredictable challenges—without burning out or sacrificing your personal life. Bob Hartman, aka “Agile Bob”, founder & partner of Agile For All, is offering five Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) course registrations.
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Bonus Gift #06
Andrew Holm: 2 X 1 Hour Video Conferences (value $3,000)
Andrew Holm (the co-creator of the fractal work model) is offering a 2 x 1-hour Video Conferences. “How to Delight Customers, Increase Productivity 5x, Massively Reduce Costs” The answer lies in front of your eyes–if can you see it. The future is in network organizations, based on self-leadership. This is a unique opportunity to spend 2 hours with one of the most respected and influential business designers in the world. Learn what conditions must be in place for organizations to succeed. Andrew will show how to take what is already there and apply it at different scales within an organization and show how to eliminate between 25 to 50% of current organizational labor costs. (LIMITED SPACES)
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Bonus Gift #07
Victoria Ward: Makeshift: 2-hour 1-on-1 or small group sessions ($2,000 value)
Victoria Ward, founder of Sparknow, is offering 3 2 hour 1:1 or small group sessions on knowhow to equip teams and groups to collaborate well. Based on 20 years of research and development led by Victoria Ward. Makeshift works with a live challenge to take you through a structured collaboration methodology. You’ll gain insight into pattern language of core principles, practical skills, tools and techniques to support collaborative working. This might be as an individual, as a leader, in groups and teams, as a project or programme, as a whole organisation. The 2 hours is broken into 30 minutes of preparation, 45 minutes online session, 45 minutes followup. (LIMITED PLACES)
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Bonus Gift #08
Peter Stevens: Performance through Agility: Online Group Mentoring (Value $1800)
Are you transitioning to Agile or Scrum? Would you like help with your transition challenges, to learn from other practitioners, to discuss specific challenges your peers, to develop & cultivate your own Agile Mindset? You can join a community of like-minded professionals. Under leadership of Certified Scrum Trainer Peter Stevens, you and your peers can celebrate your successes and collaborate to solve your problems. Mentoring is for Scrum Masters, Product Owners and other formal or informal leaders who are serious about wanting to create a high-performance Agile team or organization. FIVE free slots are available and FIFTEEN for 25% discount. More info at https://saat-network.ch/apa [LIMITED SPACES]
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Bonus Gift #09
Maria Matarelli & Nic Sementa: Free training: Agile Marketing: (Value #497)
Agile Marketing is the first effective growth hacking strategy to be embraced by major corporations on a global level. It allows for massive increases in revenue by helping companies refocus on their ideal customers, apply Agile strategies, and create maximum ROI. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Xerox, Salesforce, Adobe, and other organizations across the world are using Agile Marketing today with great results. Join Maria Matarelli & Nic Sementa for a free online training “Intro to Agile Marketing” on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 7:30pm EST.
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Bonus Gift #10
Thomas Juli: “Agile MVP’s: Setting up Agile projects for success” (Value $2,500)
Thomas Juli is offering a presentation, an initial one-hour consultation and a template. Guided by the belief that conscious and human-centric leadership is the cornerstone for succeeding in today’s Digital Age, Thomas Juli heads Motivate2B, an agency that motivates people and organizations to become more human, unfold organizational potentials and thus increase business value. In this presentation and consultation he shares his experiences about what it takes to set up Agile projects for success, namely motivation, vision and Agile practice for the project, the team and the business. In addition to the presentation he shares a free template ready for immediate use. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #11
Robby Slaughter: Productivity coaching (Value @100)
Robby Slaughter is offering Productivity Coaching – 30 minute telephone session (up to 50 people, must be scheduled by March 1, 2018). Robby Slaughter is the founder of AccelaWork, a company with over a dozen consultants and speakers that present on topics throughout the country. Robby is an expert on personal productivity and employee engagement, having written four books on the topic and spoken about it to hundreds of audiences. Take 30 minutes out of your day for a coaching session to make the rest of your year more efficient, more effective, and more satisfying. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #12
Jay Goldstein: Agile Leadership Live Video Conference and Consultation (Value $550)
This live, interactive video conference is an Introduction to a Jay Goldstein’s two-day workshop at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Education where he developed and delivers a two-day workshop course: Inspired by Steve Denning’s work, workshop covers The five shifts from Traditional Management to Agile Leadership. It is designed for leaders considering, or in the process of shifting, their organization to Agile leadership and operations. The one-hour session includes approximately 35 minutes of course content and allows for 25 minutes for consultation and Q&A personally interacting with your team. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #13
Araceli De Leon: Free Documentary Filmmaking workshop (A $750 value)
Have you been planning to make a documentary but don’t know where to start? In this 60 min webinar Araceli De Leon, the producer of the forthcoming documentary, “The Age of Agile: the movie” will be available to answer questions and give step-by-step guidelines for how to identify the story, launch your project, organize your work, write a funding proposal and negotiate a distribution deal. Araceli De Leon has an MFA in Film and Video from American University and is is a judge of the annual documentary competition for the Television, Internet and Video Association of DC.
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Bonus Gift #14
Madelyn Blair offers free free consultation on creating a resilient solution to an existing challenge (Value $500)
Imagine having an expert mentor who knows the details of running a business, sees the short term need without losing sight of the long term perspective. Resilient advice is efficient, to the point, taking only the time needed. Dr. Madelyn Blair, PhD is a speaker, author, resilience advisor, faculty at Columbia University, and the creator of the Riding the Current™ Program on creating an environment that builds resilience with creativity and innovation. She is offering three 30-minute free consultations on creating a resilient solution to an existing challenge. [LIMITED PLACES, BEFORE FEB 28]
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Bonus Gift #15
Arnaldo Romanos-Hofer: Access to software & free consulting/coaching session (Value $1,200)
In the context of The Age of Agile´s ”Law of the Small Team” Arnaldo Romanos-Hofer is offering access to the software based DIALOGOS screening “Agile Complexity Surfing Team Work” plus one hour remote consulting session for three teams in German language as well as three teams in English language. (Teams not to exceed 7 people). The DIALOGOS remote screening tool is based on eight criteria for effective team work in complex environments. These criteria we have defined after working with intercultural teams and leadership development over 20 years in the course of our corporate culture development projects. (LIMITED PLACES)
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Bonus Gift #16
Tony DiGioia: Free consultation on patient-centered design and the goShadow (Value $350)
The broken health care system can be transformed by patient-centered design, as explained in The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design. goShadow is THE tool to capture processes and measure patient experience and engagement. Shadowing is the first step of the Patient Centered Value System (PCVS). With goShadow, you can easily collect data and report on impressions, shadow to capture qualitative and quantitative data points and gain a full 360-degree view of the patient experience. Use one-touch reporting to enable quick change and targeted improvements, while measuring and tracking outcomes. Use goShadow as part of an agile framework to quickly and iteratively measure change, and drive real results. Although goShadow has been used primarily in healthcare delivery redesign, it can also be used to determine any end users experiences in product design and/or process design. goShadow has been used, for instance, to redesign a food delivery systems in underserved neighborhoods. Up to 100 free 30-minute consultations [LIMITED NUMBERS]
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Bonus Gift #17
CA Technologies: free agile expert consultation with Laureen Knudsen
Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation. We at CA Technologies have been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join Laureen Knudsen, co-author of “Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization” and resident agile expert, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.
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Bonus Gift #18
Dawna Jones: One-hour insights strategy session for bridging the gap between Agile and traditional management. (value $500)
Insight to Action coach Dawna Jones brings more than 26 years of experience in learning, facilitating and designing organizational, teams, personal transformation – communication-leading from the moment. She is the author of Decision Making for Dummies and blogs monthly forHuffington Post on Creating Great Workplace Cultures. She is offering a one-hour insight strategy session to support you navigate a tricky dynamic organizationally and personally. Entering into a new context can be challenging especially when decisions defy rational logic and Agile principles.. Value $500 [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #19
A Compact, Online Toyota Kata Course (Value $80)
The Online Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata Basics Course: This self-paced, module-based, 3-hour introductory course featuring Professor Jeffrey Liker helps you understand how to increase anyone’s scientific thinking skills through practice of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata. The first ten applicants get a coupon code to take this course for free.
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Free Conferences
Bonus Gift #20
Business Agility Conference in NY: Two free places (Value $1,600)
In the modern economy, companies do not have the luxury of stability. The impact of change, both technological and cultural, is greater and faster than ever before. In this environment, the Business Agility Conference (March 14-15) was created to guide the next generation of companies. Companies that are agile, innovative and dynamic – perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets. This is an intense 2-day conference bringing together the greatest speakers and practitioners of business agility to share their experiences and the benefits their organisations have gained from exploring new and agile practices.
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Bonus Gift #21
Hugo Lorenco: Free place at eXperience Agile 2018 & World Agility Awards
Over the last several years, industry leaders from around the world have been traveling to Lisbon, Portugal to share the latest revolutionary advancements in Agile management and leadership. eXperience Agile 2018 & World Agility Awards will take place on October 1, 2018 in Lisbon. It will reflect the next wave of Agile as it expands into new applications such as Agile Marketing, Hardware and Personal Agility. As Business Agility continues to become a growing theme in the industry, we recognize that in order to maintain relevance, businesses and industry leaders need to adapt. We are offering two free places at this path-breaking conference in which you will not only in the experience agile but also improve your strategic agility roadmap. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #22
Naresh Jain: 10 free places in Agile India 2018, March 4-9 (A $330 value)
A star-studded cast of speakers and organizations at Agile India, Asia’s largest Agile/Lean conference, including Alan Cooper, Steve Denning, Linda Rising, Gregor Hophe, James Steward, Bjarte Bogsnes, Dr. Denis Bauer, Jeff Patton, Fred George, Josh Long and 70 more thought leaders from 16 countries from Amazon, CBA, Cooper, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Google, ING, JP Morgan, Nordstrom, Pivotal, Red Hat, Shell, Standard Chartered, Statoil, Target Corporation, Thoughtworks, Twitter, Walmart Labs. The conference is offering 10 free passes and discounts. First TEN people will get a free single-day pass. Others will receive a 10% discount code. [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #23
Mike Rother: Participation in Annual Toyota Kata Conference: The Kata Summit aka “Katacon”
The fourth annual Kata Summit on February 22-23, 2018 in Atlanta is the opportunity to connect and learn with the rapidly growing world of Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata practitioners. The first applicant gets a free seat at the conference. (Value $1,795)
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Free Books
Bonus Gift #24
Scrum.org is offering copies of the book, Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum (Value $35)
The Nexus Framework is a simple, effective approach to applying Scrum at scale. Created by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org. Nexus draws on decades of experience to address the unique challenges teams face in coming together, sharing work, and managing and minimizing dependencies. Scrum.org is offering five hardcover copies of their book, Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams. The bookprovides practical techniques and practices for adopting Scrum consistently across organizations.
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Bonus Gift #25
Brian Shoemaker and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert: book on Agile methods in in medical devices (Value $40)
Brian Shoemaker and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert offer their book “Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems: A Primer Using Medical Device Examples.” This book, packed with real-world insights and direct experiences, is for managers who want the benefits of Agile but also must address regulatory compliance, integration of software with other disciplines, and product safety. In it, we combine our understanding of Agile development, hardware/software integration, and regulatory requirements. We know that Agile is simple but not easy; leadership is crucial to make this change spread. We show how to navigate the transition.
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Bonus Gift #26
InfoQ is offering the book, Why Agile Works
Why do some companies excel with agile and others see virtually no improvement? The difference is culture and an understanding that agile is a framework for deep cultural change instead of a process or set of practices to increase efficiency. Why Agile Works: The Values Behind the Results focuses on why and how agile works and where agile should take organizations in terms of values. InfoQ.com is facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development. InfoQ content is currently published in English, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. With a readership base of over 1,400,000 unique visitors per month reading content from 100 locally-based editors across the globe, we continue to build localized communities. Stay on top of trends by subscribing to our newsletter or listening to the podcasts.
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Bonus Gift #27
Stan Garfield’s book, Implementing a Successful KM Program ($25 value)
Stan Garfield is offering a free copy of his book, Implementing a Successful Knowledge Management Program. This book was designed specifically to provide a step-by-step guide to planning, launching, and leading a knowledge management initiative. Each of the key stages is explored, the potential pitfalls are explained, the necessary research is outlined, and all relevant resources that will help you in reaching your targets are listed at length. Stan is a KM professional for over 21 years at DEC, Compaq, HP, and Deloitte. He presents regularly at conferences such as KMWorld, APQC, and SLA; writes weekly LinkedIn articles; and delivers monthly webinars for Lucidea. He leads the SIKM Leaders Community and maintains a comprehensive KM resource site.
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Bonus Gift #28
Rini Van Solingen: Free 154-page book: How to Lead Self-Managing Teams (A $20 value)
More and more organizations introduce self-managing teams. Managers need to initiate and guide that transformation, although it’s often unclear what their roles will be afterwards. How to Lead Self-Managing Teams is a business novel on changing leadership from sheepherding to beekeeping. It presents a story of a grandfather who teaches his grandson Mark how to lead self-managing teams, talking from his own experiences in transforming from a shepherd to a beekeeper. It is written by Rini van Solingen is an author, speaker and lecturer and professor at Delft University of Technology and CTO at Prowareness.
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Bonus Gift #29
Mike Rother: Free book: Toyota Kata Practice Guide (TKPG) (Value $31)
Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results. In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior. Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, including forming habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals and modifying the thought patterns that drive behavior. Mike Rother is offering five hardcopies of The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day (2017)
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Free Videos
Bonus Gift #30
Seth Kahan: Free video training, Getting Association Strategy Right ($398 value)
Strategy provides escape velocity for an association, the ability to break free of the current gravitational field to achieve new heights. These heights can be measured in three ways: growth, relevance, and market leadership. This 2-hour video series shows step-by-step how Seth Kahan does strategy for his association clients.
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Bonus Gift #31
Dawna Jones: Video on skills for closing the gap between Agile and traditional management. (value $500)
Dawna Jones is offering her video on skills for closing the gap between Agile and traditional management. Agile and traditional management operate using separate world views that can collide and raise tensions when Agile is being implemented. In this video, Dawna explains the neuroscience of focus and how to, in brain friendly way, avoid creating resistance to the implementing of Agile. Dawna specializes in bringing insight to complex problems so that a broader perspective and higher level of leadership emerges. You’ll hear how something as simple as a line of questioning can bridge internal goals to the customer experience.
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Free Tools
Bonus Gift #32
Rita McGrath: Assessment, Workbook and Presentation deck: Are you at risk of excessive exploitation focus? (Value $100)
In her groundbreaking book, The End of Competitive Advantage, Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath makes the case that focusing on exploiting existing advantages can be a deadly trap, and that even powerful companies such as Blackberry or Nokia can fall victim. With this gift, you can perform an assessment of how biased toward exploitation your organization is. The gift comes complete with a workbook that allows you to identify the causes and potential remedies given unsatisfactory answers as well as a presentation deck you can use to explain the analysis to others.
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Bonus Gift #33
Ellen Gottesdiener: Agile Product Requirements Discovery Guide
Build shared understanding of Agile Product Requirements: Get access to Ellen’s 2-part Agile Product Requirements Guide including “7 Product Dimensions Question Guide” and ““Focus Questions for the Structured Conversations.” An Agile Product Coach and CEO of EBG Consulting, Ellen Gottesdiener helps product and development communities create valuable outcomes through product agility. Ellen is known in the agile community as an instigator and innovator for collaborative practices for agile product discovery and using skilled facilitation to enable healthy teamwork and strong organizations. Ellen keenly focuses on amplifying discovery to accelerate delivery. She is co-author of Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis.
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Bonus Gift #34
Rick Wartzman: Preface to The End of Loyalty
In The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America, Rick Wartzman examines how the social contract between employer and employee in America has changed since the end of World War II through the lens of four iconic companies: General Motors, General Electric, Kodak and Coca-Cola. strategy+business selected The End of Loyalty as one of the best books of 2017. Besides great storytelling, the book’s power comes from this: Often, the best way to shape the future is to understand the past. (The preface is excerpted from The End of Loyalty: Copyright © 2017. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
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Bonus Gift #35
Amanda Setili The New Rules for Fearless Growth (16 pages)
Is your company fast, creative, and adaptable enough to survive in today’s volatile world? In our age of disruption, your company must be agile and courageous—yet it’s easy to react to today’s business climate with fear and indecision. Don’t make that mistake. To move quickly and intelligently to the changes unfolding around us, you must be sure all levels and functions in your businesses are creative and responsive. Amanda Setili is president of strategy consulting firm Setili & Associates. An internationally acclaimed expert on strategic agility®, she gives her clients—including Cardinal Health, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot, UPS, and Walmart—unbiased and laser-clear advice on how to respond quickly and intelligently to a changing marketplace. She offers two 15-page guides: “New Rules for Fearless Growth” and “Are You Ready to Grow Fearlessly?”
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Bonus Gift #36
Tony DiGioia: Free goShadow improvement bundle, including free 6-month goShadow license (Value $600)
Our broken health care system can be transformed by patient-centered design, as explained in The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design. goShadow is THE tool to capture processes and measure patient experience and engagement. Shadowing is the first step of the Patient Centered Value System (PCVS). With goShadow, you can easily collect data and report on impressions, shadow to capture qualitative and quantitative data points and gain a full 360-degree view of the patient experience. Use one-touch reporting to enable quick change and targeted improvements, while measuring and tracking outcomes. Use goShadow as part of an agile framework to quickly and iteratively measure change, and drive real results. Although goShadow has been used primarily in healthcare delivery redesign, it can also be used to determine any end users experiences in product design and/or process design. goShadow has been used, for instance, to redesign a food delivery systems in underserved neighborhoods. Tony is offering an unlimited number of goShadow free trials and a 6-month free license—a $600 value.
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Bonus Gift #37
Arthur Shelley: opening chapter from KNOWledge SUCCESSion
KNOWledge SUCCESSion is an exploration of how to leverage projects as generators of new knowledge and capability development to sustain success. Structured to build from current knowledge foundations to connect interdependent aspects of development work in our complex world, it stimulates higher performance and competitive advantage at personal, team and organisational levels. Dr. Arthur Shelley is a capability development and knowledge strategy consultant with over 30 years experience. His professional roles include managing international projects in Australia, Europe, Asia and USA and professional development workshops with organisations as diverse as NASA, Cirque du Soleil, government and corporates. Arthur is offering the opening chapter of KNOWledge SUCCESSion.
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Bonus Gift #38
BlueBottleBiz offers free tailored Discovery Path for business professionals
Gain valuable business knowledge in short bites, when you need it! BlueBottleBiz is the first collaborative learning platform for business professionals. The most-read and the fastest-growing category of learning in 2017 across its platform is Management, Strategy and Leadership. BlueBottleBiz has tailored a free learning Discovery Path for all purchasers of The Age of Agile. You will join a group with access to books and articles from BlueBottleBiz’s library of 50,000 assets.
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Late Breaking Gifts
Bonus Gift #39
Simon Roberts: Agile Leadership, Scrum and Enterprise Scrum training from ScrumCenter (value 1500 EUR)
Whether you are just getting started with agile or looking to level up your implementation, you can benefit from this offer. Choose from Certified ScrumMaster®, Certified Scrum Product Owner®, Certified Scrum Developer®, Agile Leadership or Certified Enterprise Scrum Business Agility. Free places in the UK or Germany for the first three that apply. Others get a 20% discount for a course of their choice. Simon has been helping organisations to adopt and succeed with agile since the early 2000s. Recent delegate: “Brilliant! Really informative, and broken into good size chunks. Made me very excited about agile!!” [LIMITED PLACES]
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Bonus Gift #40
Agility Scales Community/beta app access, private Agile Quests and Experiments to build agile mindsets
If you’re interested in helping teams develop true agility and helping individuals change their mindsets, join the Agility Scales venture, founded by Jurgen Appelo, author of Managing for Happiness, which includes a community dedicated to capturing, sharing and measuring the impact of actionable ideas, as well as the Mind Settlers app and platform with actionable guides. Join other agile changemakers on special quests and experiments supporting the 3 Laws of Agile described by Steve Denning.
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Bonus Gift #41
Amanda Setili: free consultation: attacking a strategic challenge with agility ($600 value)
In these times of fast market and technology change, many companies face strategic challenges of gargantuan proportions. They need to act quickly, but that can be difficult. Many forces, from incentives, to investor expectations, to employee readiness get in the way of fast strategic execution. Even your customers may balk at rapid change, rejecting opportunities to try new products, or to do things in new ways. Strategic agility® expert Amanda Setili, author of Fearless Growth, and The Agility Advantage is offering three free one-hour consultations to help you attack your biggest strategic challenge with speed and agility. [LIMITED PLACES]
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