Stakeholders are people who have a stake or interest in your product. Building good relationships with Stakeholders is crucial to product success. Stakeholder management is a process of creating positive relationships with your stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives. Stakeholder Management is critical in any business. Managing their expectations and building good bonding needs good experience and practical knowledge. Getting to know others' experiences is a great way to learn. Below are the four essential books for learning Stakeholder Management from the authors who share their experiences. 

A) Sources of Power: How people make decisions

This book is a modern classic about how people really make decisions, drawing on prior experience, and using a combination of intuition and analysis. Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies. It has been translated into six languages and has been cited in professional journals that range from the Journal of Marketing Research to the Journal of Nursing. Author Gary Klein has collaborated with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman who redesigned the White House Situation Room to support more effective decision-making. The model of decision-making Klein proposes in the book has been adopted in fields including law enforcement training and petrochemical plant operation. What is the groundbreaking new way to approach decision-making described in this modern classic? 

We have all seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make split-second decisions that save lives? Most decision-making studies, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Klein proposes a naturalistic approach to decision-making, which views people as gaining experience that enables them to use a combination of intuition and analysis to make decisions. Klein tells stories of people from pilots to chess masters acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditions. 

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B) Game Storming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, And Changemakers

Great things don't happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: game-storming.

This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals. The teams of the latter collaborate and make great things happen. This book is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity while bringing more structure and clarity to the workplace. Find out why -- and how -- with Gamestorming.

• Overcome conflict and increase engagement with team-oriented games 
• Improve collaboration and communication in cross-disciplinary teams with visual-thinking techniques 
• Improve understanding by role-playing customer and user experiences 
• Generate better ideas and more of them, faster than ever before 
• Shorten meetings and make them more productive 
• Simulate and explore complex systems, interactions, and dynamics 
• Identify a problem's root cause, and find the paths that point toward a solution

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C) Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes, and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation. The visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups.

Visual Meetings explains how to implement powerful visual tools and how they are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate face-to-face and virtual group work. This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including

• Graphic recording, visual planning, storyboarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc.
• Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more
• Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms
• Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups

Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success, Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly.

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D) Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition is an essential book for learning English and mastering the art of making conversations. How you converse dictates how far you will go, and this book will be your most helpful aid to the art of conversing.

The book is divided into several chapters to ease you into the process of learning. The book first delves into the concept of a crucial conversation. The authors say that whenever you are faced with making a critical conversation, there can be three possible outcomes:

• You could turn around and not talk, thus losing by default.
• You could botch it up quite badly.
• You could take the opportunity with both hands and ace it.

This book is about the last of those options and helps you reach that stage. 

The authors also speak in great detail about what is safe and what is not safe to say during a crucial conversation. They list the deal makers and different demeanors that will always help you stay on top of the situation. They tell us ways to retain our composure in the face of risk or possible failure and how to work it to one's advantage. Lastly, they touch upon the really tough cases that might sometimes cause worry and help you learn the techniques that will allow you to emerge victoriously.

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