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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 — 2,851 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 — 910 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 — 477 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) 4.28 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
	Naked Espresso: An In-Depth Case Study of Management 3.0 Practices in Action by Marko van Gaans (Goodreads Author), Jurgen Appelo (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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Since the collapse of the agile industrial complex, I’ve been wondering what new direction my life should take. It involved a lot of exploration.

Pivoting to AI? Coaching? Consulting? Writing? Drawing? Cooking? Joining advisory boards? Building a multi-agent system architecture?

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A unique concept that derailed somewhere halfway. When you confused a reader so much that they gave up and didn't finish the book, you pushed the idea of being unconventional a bit too far. Also, I really don't like head-hopping as a narrative style. ...more
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Jurgen Appelo rated a book it was ok Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations by Leonard L. Berry	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
Inspiring organization but badly written book. Endless pages of "look at Mayo Clinic being awesome." I learned nothing. ...more
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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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