New Cover for Getting Results the Agile Way

I have a new cover for my book, Getting Results the Agile Way.   Getting Results the Agile Way introduces Agile Results, a simple system for meaningful results.

The purpose of the book is to share the best insights and actions for mastering productivity, time management, motivation, and work-life balance.  In fact, I’ve been doing several talks around Microsoft on work-life balance, and helping teams improve their results.

It’s the best way I can give the edge to my Microsoft tribe, as well as share the principles, patterns, and practices for getting results with the rest of the world.

The new cover better reflects the values of Agile Results: Adventure, Balance, Congruence, Continuous learning, Empowerment, Focus, Flexibility, Fulfillment, Growth, Passion, Simplicity, and Sustainability.   Specifically, the cover reflects simplicity, focus, continuous learning, and flexibility.  Hopefully, the simplicity is obvious.  The new cover is pretty bare-bones.  It’s clean, while, minimal, and features a symbol.  In this case, the symbol is a variation of an Enso.  Intuitively, it simply implies a loop.  But if you happen to know the Enso, it’s also a symbol of enlightenment.  The beauty of a symbol is you can make it be what you want it to be to be meaningful for you (for me, it’s continuous learning and growth.)

Getting Results the Agile Way is serious stuff.   Doctors, lawyers, teachers, students, Moms, restaurant owners, consultants, developers, project managers, team leaders, and more have been using the approach to do more with less, flow more value, and find work-life balance, while improving their thoughts, feelings, and actions to make the most of what they’ve got.

The system scales down to the one-man band (after all, it is a “personal” results system for work and life), and it scales up to teams.  It’s the same approach I’ve used to lead distributed teams around the world for more than ten years.

Here is the back of the book which gives a quick overview of the system:

The new cover will likely be available this October, so if you are a fan of the current blue cover, scoop it up now, while it lasts (maybe it will be a collector’s item some day.)