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Priceless: The Hidden Psychology of Value [BOOK]

Why do text messages cost money while e-mails are free? Why do cereal packets keep getting smaller? Why do so many prices end in 9? In Priceless, bestselling author William Poundstone reveals how we perceive value and how businesses set the prices we pay. Rooted in the emerging field of behavioural decision theory, Poundstone reveals the secrets that multinationals - including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Nokia and Mercedes - are willing to pay millions for.

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JIRA Agile (formerly know as Greenhopper) is a great addition to your agile toolkit even if you already run a physical scrum task board. If you update your physical board after a stand-up or during sprint planning sessions, follow up with an update to your online board. This gives your stakeholders (internal and external) an accurate and current view of the work status.

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The 8 Dimensions of Leadership [BOOK]

"To be an effective leader you need to know your strengths—but that’s only part of the story. You also need a broad perspective on all the behaviors needed to be an effective leader. This book provides both.To be an effective leader you need to know your strengths—but that’s only part of the story. You also need a broad perspective on all the behaviors needed to be an effective leader. This book provides both."

The 8 Dimensions of Leadership: DiSC Strategies for Becoming a Better Leader by Jeffrey Sugerman, Mark Scullard, Emma Wilhelm

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10512528-the-8-dimensions-of-leadership

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The Speed of Trust (Book)

Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust— and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents— is the essential ingredient for any high– performance, successful organization.

Read about The Speed of Trust.

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Krimper Cafe

Photo from the Broadsheet review of Krimper

If you're looking for a meeting venue in the Melbourne CBD, check out Krimper. The food, coffee and space are all sensational. The location is out of the way, so if you're planning on meeting guests there, you may want to send them a map. Check out the Broadsheet review of Krimper for plenty of details and photos.

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Online project management toolkit

Atlassian JIRA + Greenhopper + Bonfire = The perfect online PM toolkit.

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In order to engage in a conversation about leadership, you have to assume you have no power — that you aren’t “in charge” of anything and that you can’t sanction those who are unwilling to do your bidding. If, given this starting point, you can mobilize others and accomplish amazing things, then you’re a leader. If you can’t, well then, you’re a bureaucrat.

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Don’t confuse execution with tactics

People think of execution as the tactical side of business. That’s the first big mistake. Tactics are central to execution, but execution is not tactics. Execution is fundamental to strategy and has to shape it. No worthwhile strategy can be planned without taking into account the organization’s ability to execute it. If you’re talking about the smaller specifics of getting things done, call the process implementation, or sweating the details, or whatever you want to. But don’t confuse execution with tactics.

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1635.Execution

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The shortcut that’s sure to work, every time: Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won’t waste time doing it over.

~ Seth Godin

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You say potato

Your projects frequently come in under budget. You believe it's because your people are talented and efficient. I wonder whether it's because you're an awful estimator.

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A gracefully executed quit is a beautiful thing, opening up more doors than it closes

~ Kim Stark

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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf http://www.leanuxbook.com/

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The team-oriented version of the Wunderlist task manager has finally arrived for the iPhone, iPad, OS X and the web. Android and Windows versions will follow in a week’s time.

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Instant project management for GitHub repositories http://huboard.com/

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Culture eats process for lunch

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“Given that energized innovators like these are disrupting many existing products, and the business models behind them, you can feel threatened by them. Or you can learn from them and work to turn your own organization into a collection of amplified individuals.”

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“One of the issues we need to be concerned with in responsive design is how to maintain hierarchy as elements on the screen are resized and reflowed.”