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Rethinking governance for the one-person business in the age of intelligent machines.

Jurgen Appelo doesn't just connect the dots between human leadership and artificial intelligence — he questions whether the dots were in the right place to begin with.

As an author, speaker, and organizational strategist, Jurgen helps leaders navigate the AI transformation of their organizations — and their own roles within them. His work sits at the intersection of human leadership and machine intelligence, where the governance questions are hardest and the strategic stakes are highest.

He is the author of several books on leadership and organizational transformation, including Management 3.0, Managing for Happiness, and Human Robot Agent, his latest work on ...more

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	Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders 4.15 avg rating — 2,849 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0 3.96 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools & Practices to Motivate Any Team 4.34 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients (Management 3.0) 4.29 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers by Lisette Sutherland (Goodreads Author), Kirsten Janene-Nelson, Jurgen Appelo (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.57 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth 4.02 avg rating — 122 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Robot Agent: New Fundamentals for AI-Driven Leadership with Algorithmic Management by Jurgen Appelo (Goodreads Author), Jean-Christophe Conticello (Introduction) 4.37 avg rating — 68 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doing It : Management 3.0 Experiences by Ralph van Roosmalen (Goodreads Author), Jurgen Appelo (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in Action

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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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The book has a great many useful tips and techniques. Sadly, it is full of linguistic errors: many style, grammar, and even spelling errors. It was (for me) a pain to read.
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“Your career is your own responsibility. Your employer is not your mother.”
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“Management is 5% instruction and 95% communication.”
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“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”
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