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  1. Amazing CTO
    The missing manual for managing
    Stephan Schmidt

    Your hard skills landed you the management position, but it’s your soft and management skills that will drive your success. Numerous books cover architecture and processes, "Amazing CTO" stands out as the essential guide for managing effectively, authored by influential CTO Coach Stephan Schmidt.

  2. Agile Remoto: Dal Fare all’Essere
    Oltre gli strumenti, verso le persone
    Raffaello Torraco

    Hai implementato tutte le pratiche. Usi gli strumenti giusti. Eppure qualcosa non funziona.Il primo libro ti ha dato Shu – come fare Agile Remoto. Hai seguito le regole. Ma ora senti che non basta.I meeting girano, ma le persone sembrano disconnesse. Il team consegna, ma qualcuno sta bruciando. Hai tutte le pratiche, ma manca l'anima.Questo libro ti porta in Ha – oltre le regole, verso la trasformazione profonda.15 capitoli su tensioni che preferiresti evitare: il costo nascosto del remoto. Vulnerabilità vs decisioni dure. Fiducia distribuita. Psychological safety senza prossimità. Leadership che abilita. Flourishing vs sopravvivenza.Non troverai ricette facili. Troverai pattern battle-tested, domande che cambiano come pensi, onestà radicale su quando il remoto NON è la scelta giusta.Dal fare all'essere. Da Shu a Ha. Oltre gli strumenti, verso le persone.Non ti prometto risposte. Ti prometto domande migliori.

  3. Whether you're in the boardroom, at the chalkboard, or whiteboard, presentations are everywhere. Nearly all presentation is built on your voice. Learn to tune and practice this instrument well, because it's the foundation of your presentation! How far can you get in 10 Days?

  4. Whether you're in the boardroom, at the chalkboard, or whiteboard, presentations are everywhere. It doesn't matter if you are backed by a slide deck or just the marker in your hand, a presentation's strength comes from you. A word well spoken can change the world. How far can you get in 10 Days?

  5. THE EXECUTIVE DECISION DEFENSE PLAYBOOK™ (2026 EDITION)
    Doctrine, Structures, and Reasoning Systems for Defensible Executive Judgment
    Er. Nabal Kishore Pande

    When decisions are examined months or years later, outcomes are irrelevant; reconstructibility is the test. This Playbook prescribes the exact reasoning elements reviewers will demand and the linguistic discipline required to survive hostile hindsight.AI compresses timelines and can obscure logic; citing an algorithm is not a defense. The Playbook requires system identification, input logging, validation steps, and documented human override to maintain executive accountability.Absent a contemporaneous record, silence is treated as negligence. The 24-Hour Rule enforces a non-negotiable window to create a concise, reconstructible record that preserves the decision as it existed before result disclosure.

  6. The Illegibility Crisis
    Instrumentation for AI-Era Leadership
    Paul LaPosta

    You cannot lead what you cannot see. In AI-heavy organizations, illegibility is now the default. This book gives you fracture names, diagnostic protocols, and field kits for seeing and governing systems where dashboards lie and decisions live in prompts no one saved.

  7. Thriving in Turbulence
    Diagnose Conditions. Apply the Right Lever. Build Capability.
    Neil Walker

    When the world goes beyond VUCA and BANI, leaders don’t need another framework - they need Monday-morning moves. Thriving in Turbulence introduces CIRCA-CLEAR, a meta-framework that helps you rapidly diagnose the turbulence you’re in and run 2-4 week responses that restore flow, reduce escalation, and make everything you already do more context-aware. Pattern recognition for leaders under pressure: decode complexity, restore flow, repeat.

  8. Le Mindset du Succès pour tous les entrepreneurs
    Le Mindset du Succès — Réveille l’entrepreneur qui est en toi
    N'GONIAN BOAZ

    Tu veux changer ta vie, réussir ton business et libérer ton plein potentiel ? Ce n’est pas la chance qu’il te faut, mais le bon mindset. Dans ce guide pratique, je partage avec toi les stratégies mentales, les habitudes et les principes des plus grands entrepreneurs — ceux qui ont bâti leur succès à partir de rien.Tu apprendras comment transformer l’échec en moteur, garder la motivation quand tout s’effondre, et développer la discipline des leaders à succès.Je ne te parle pas de théorie, mais de stratégies concrètes appliquées par des hommes et des femmes qui ont osé.Prépare-toi à réveiller l’entrepreneur qui sommeille en toi et à franchir un nouveau cap dans ta vie.? Le guide pratique pour réveiller l’entrepreneur en toi — ton premier pas vers la réussite commence ici.

  9. OKR, the right way
    Allineare persone e strategia senza perdere il senso
    Francesco Fullone

    Hai mai sentito dire “facciamo gli OKR come Google”?Bene. Questo libro inizia proprio spiegando perché non dovresti farlo. Tra aneddoti, canvas colorati e qualche camicia hawaiana di troppo, scoprirai che gli OKR non servono a correre più forte, ma a capire dove vale la pena andare.

  10. APO TO MHDEN STO KERDOS — Bima bima odigos gia eisodima apo to spiti
    Κέρδισε Χρήματα από το Σπίτι – Ο Απόλυτος Οδηγός
    Elite Readers

    Ανακάλυψε τον απλό τρόπο να βγάζεις εισόδημα από το σπιτι! Ο Οδηγος αποκαλύπτει τα μυστικά που μπορείς να εφαρμόσεις άμεσα, χωρίς εμπειρια και τεχνικές γνώσεις. Κερδισε λεφτα απο το σπιτι και αύξησε τα έσοδά σου.

  11. The FIRE framework
    A LEADER’S PLAYBOOK TO MANAGING CRISIS WITHOUT BURNOUT
    Spyros Lavranos

    Most leaders are stuck in firefighter mode—reacting fast, burning out faster. The FIRE Playbook gives you a strategic system to lead through crisis with clarity, calm, and control. It builds not just resilience, but agility—so you can adapt fast, lead smart, and thrive under pressure. If you’re ready to stop reacting and start leading, this is your fireproof advantage. 

  12. The Euclidean Method: Building Irrefutable Arguments Through Geometric Logic
    A Pragmatic System for Transforming Logical Precision into Measurable Persuasive Power
    DANIELE TETI

    Unlock the 2,300-Year-Old Mathematical Secret Behind Every Undefeatable ArgumentIn 300 BC, Euclid discovered the geometric principles that make mathematical proofs irrefutable for millennia. He unknowingly unlocked the universal formula for logical certainty—one that would secretly power history's most influential speakers.Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" follows Euclidean architecture. Steve Jobs' iPhone launch uses geometric precision. Jeff Bezos structures Amazon letters like mathematical theorems.This isn't storytelling or charisma training. It's the first framework transforming ancient mathematical rigor into modern persuasive power. Master operational definitions, shared axioms, and geometric structures that make arguments mathematically unassailable.Your ideas deserve logical armor. Stop hoping for approval. Start building inevitable acceptance.

  13. Growing Development Organisations
    How to Grow Engineering Teams That Thrive
    Stephan Schmidt

    You've built an MVP, found product-market fit, and now the pressure is on to hire more developers and scale faster—but here's the brutal truth: adding more people often makes everything slower, not faster, and most CTOs become bottlenecks drowning in meetings while their teams struggle with chaos. Stephan Schmidt, veteran CTO and startup coach, reveals seven battle-tested principles for scaling tech teams without losing your sanity, from structuring around ownership and promoting from within to avoiding the bottleneck trap and understanding why AI changes the scaling game entirely. Whether you're managing 5 developers or 50, this practical guide will help you build sustainable organizations that scale with purpose, not just pressure—stop throwing money at problems and start building organizations that actually work.

  14. Audiencing
    A guide to four audiencing types in everyday life & why this matters
    A. Claudius (PhD)

    Audiencing is something we do everyday. We do it all the time. In fact, we are so familiar with giving attention to someone or something how we audience and the types of audiencing we are do are invisible. This book makes visible four types of audiencing, and you will discover what it means to do each form of audiencing and why this matters. Playful popular quotes, academic research, and anecdotes from numerous fields of endeavour from computer programming to jujitsu, from movie editing to watching a friend play football, are all used to demonstrate the characteristics and challenges of each audiencing type. Ultimately, Audiencing presents a far-reaching concept and a useful language to see and understand ourselves as audiences in our work and study, in the arts, communications, sport, on the internet, and in our everyday lives as we audience each other. To discover more – audience on.

  15. Firefighter in the Boardroom
    A Leadership Playbook for Crisis-Proof Management
    Spyros Lavranos

    Most leaders don’t just manage—they fight fires every day. From last-minute crises to unexpected market shifts, leadership often feels like a never-ending emergency. But are you leading strategically, or just reacting to the chaos?Firefighters in the Boardroom is a leadership playbook designed for executives, managers, and decision-makers who operate in high-pressure environments. Through real-world case studies and the FIRE Framework™, this book will help you spot crises before they explode, manage urgency with clarity, and turn firefighting into a strategic advantage.Great leaders don’t just put out fires—they know how to control them. Are you ready to fireproof your leadership?