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....

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....

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....

This audiobook has been created to provide you with the insights that you are going to need in order to understand how your school district could best make use of a service like The Digital Bell....

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 speech has to start out well and this is a great opportunity to do some bragging about yourself to your audience. Al Gore has some tips for us....

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us....

How do you measure the success of a product manager? Ultimately it comes down to how successful their product is....

This is a rapidly evolving field. It our hope that by listening to this book, we can provide you with a firm foundation on which to understand what virtualization is and how it is being used....

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget....

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product....

There are a lot of bad guys out there. For some odd reason, a lot of them seem to want to break into your company's networks and applications....

As the world has become more and more digital, the importance of the role of a CIO within a firm has increased....

As individuals we have a tendency to shy away from getting involved in arguments. We view them as being confrontational and filled with emotions. However, when it comes to negotiating....

When we enter into a negotiation, we simply don't know everything that we need to know....

When we sit down to negotiate, we are really entering into a very specialized conversation with the other side of the table....

How your next negotiation is going to turn out will be determined by how you open the negotiation....

It may not always seem this way, but as speakers we do have power. We need to learn how to tap into that power use it to deliver the best speech that we can....

As a negotiator, it's going to be your job to take a look at where things stand in the negotiation and then package up the agreements so that they can be included in the final deal....

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