Jim Anderson

Who was it that said "It takes a village…"? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts....

Any manager is only as good as his or her team. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard this before. However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind - more often than not we are just handed a team and told the make the most of them....

One of my negotiating mentors told me that most negotiations are over even before they start. When I asked her what she meant, she explained that the side that prepares the best for a negotiation is the one that will probably walk away with the best deal....

CIOs need to be able to communicate their thoughts with the rest of their department and the company in order to maintain credibility as a thought-leader. Effective communication is a set of skills that every CIO needs to develop. Learn how....

All negotiations have to come to a close. When your next negotiation reaches this stage, you want to make sure that you are going to be able to walk away with the best deal possible....

Every time we give a speech, we all want the same thing to happen: We want to change the world. However, in order to do that, we are going to have to find ways to connect with our audience. The challenge we are facing is that it turns out this is not an easy thing to do....

This audiobook has been written with one goal in mind - to show you how you can make your product management career a success....

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. It is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still....

What does it take to be a successful CIO? Studies have shown that the average CIO only holds on to the job for roughly 4 years....

The job of a product manager is made even more difficult by the simple fact that it really does not come with any clear instructions on how to do it correctly....

All too often public speakers think that all that they have to work with are the words that will tumble out of their mouth during their next presentation....

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on....

All too often we find ourselves in the position of being an IT manager with little or no training on what it takes to correctly staff a team....

Just in case nobody ever told you, being a principal, teacher, or a parent is a tough job. You are the person who is ultimately responsible for the academic success of one or more students....

In order to be a success, a CIO needs to be able to find and work with partners. These partners have to be committed to the same things that the CIO is....

The part of a negotiation that every negotiator wants to get to as quickly as possible is the closing. This is when your prize is in sight....

As speakers, we want to create the best speech that we can. In order to do this we can make use of a large number of tools that are available....

SDN is not a revolutionary new technology. Instead, it is better to think of this as being a new way of organizing computer network functionality....

As an IT manager, one of your most valuable possessions is your career....

This audiobook will show you how to organize your next speech in order to transform it into something that is even more powerful than it is today....