Project Leadership

In A Symphony of Choices, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard delivers a fascinating narrative following one Jerry Hall, the new Symphony Orchestra manager at a prestigious symphony concerned about the challenging plans for an upcoming season. In the book, you'll watch Jerry connect with a former college professor and learn the skills necessary to successfully manage his way through these unprecedented times in his business and personal life.

Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility leads to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to bridge the gap and engage the upper ranks. By thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress, project managers win the support they need - especially critical when problems arise.

Increasingly, organizations count on project teams to develop products and deliver services to their customers. Consequently, effective teamwork and team leadership are integral components of an organization's success. Authors Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell define the essence of superior performance by project teams at work and identify nine attributes of team membership and team leadership that set the stage for accomplishment of group objectives. Kohn and O'Connell bring these proven strategies to life with real-world examples drawn from decades of experience.

All projects, large and small, are subject to various risks. But the failure to manage inherent risk with diligence and know-how can lead to devastating consequences for an organization. In this comprehensive hands-on guide, a renowned expert in the field provides everything organizations need to conduct project risk management the right way.

Missing your Indie publishing goals? Losing money by delivering work late to sub-contractors? Struggling to write more than one book per year? Spend a weekend with Meeting the Writer's Deadline and learn to deliver your work on time. Meeting the Writer's Deadline will show you in a weekend how you can start managing your book projects and meeting your deadlines! Get Meeting the Writer's Deadline today, because writing is serious business.

In an increasingly competitive and crowded marketplace, it's not uncommon for business leaders to stick to well-established approaches for growing their bottom lines. But what if those methods are actually bottoming out their businesses? In The 5-Day Turnaround, Jeff Hilimire uses his 20+ years of success in the entrepreneurial arena to teach leaders how to strategically embrace a startup mentality to create transformative growth for their companies. Told through the eyes of Will, a highly accomplished entrepreneur who's running a fast-growing marketing agency.

Am Anfang läuft es noch wie geschmiert. Doch irgendwann kommt der Punkt, an dem Projektleiter, Projektmitarbeiter und auch die initiierenden Führungskräfte unter Druck geraten - aus welchem Grund auch immer. Das ganze Vorhaben droht zu scheitert, alle Verantwortung liegt nun in Ihrer Hand. Ralph Nolte findet in seinem Buch Druck-Ausgleich. Wie Sie es schaffen, dass jeder im Team Verantwortung übernimmt Antworten auf Fragen, die Entscheider jeden Tag aufs neu beschäftigen: Wie schaffen Sie Druckentlastung? Wie setzen Sie ein Veränderungsprojekt sauber auf?

The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings by certified meeting professional Mary Jo Wiseman offers a common-sense approach to managing the meeting planning process based on the knowledge and experience she garnered over a 20-plus-year career as a corporate meeting and event coordinator. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects, and deadlines throughout her career, and she wants to share her secrets for success with others.

The ‘I’ in Agile: A Personal Journey is about my battle with Agile and the challenges I faced.

So, you think you want to be a freelance writer and you are looking at doing some ghostwriting. Well, ghostwriting is hard work! Yet when properly managed and priced, ghostwriting can be one of the most lucrative freelance writing careers. This book goes through how to successfully run a ghostwriting project, from the initial contact with a prospective client to delivering the completed work. Potential pitfalls are discussed in detail, along with solutions and suggestions.

¿Qué me da a mí, Tony Smart, el poder y la fuerza para guiarte a través de este libro? Las directrices e ideas de este libro son el resultado de mi amplia experiencia en la gestión de proyectos. He gestionado, implementado y entregado con éxito innumerables proyectos, incluyendo complejos proyectos globales basados en infraestructuras. Como gerente de proyectos, he supervisado planes nuevos y de modificación utilizando recursos en tierra, en el mar y de terceros.

Are you already working in scrum but stuck in a rut? o you know the basics of scrum but don’t feel like you can adequately support your team? Scope creep, team members showing up late, challenging stakeholders...sound familiar? Scrum Mastery goes beyond the basics of Scrum. You will learn how to become a skilled scrum master who is more than just a meeting facilitator, and how to lead your team to greatness. This book is for people and organizations who are serious about scrum, agile, and looking for more in-depth advice.

Did you always want to be a great project manager, able to manage projects like a breeze, but you can’t figure out the best way to do it? This audiobook can change things for you.... You see, managing projects doesn't have to be difficult. Even if you have tried multiple project management methodologies, it is easier than you might imagine.

Projekte effizienter, schneller und kontrollierbarer abschließen. Modernes Projektmanagement bedeutet agiles Projektmanagement! Egal ob Sie als Anfänger Ihr erstes Projekt betreuen oder schon Fortgeschrittener in diesem Bereich sind - begeistern Sie Ihre Vorgesetzten, Mitarbeiter und vor allem Ihre Kunden mit den exklusiven Management-Modellen aus diesem Ratgeber und werden Sie sofort zum Top-Leader! Entdecken Sie die agile Methode SCRUM und profitieren Sie von den enormen Vorteilen für Ihr Unternehmen und Ihren persönlichen Erfolg.

Dieses Hörbuch zeigt den Hörerinnen und Hörer auf, wie mithilfe der SCRUM Technik ein agiles Projektmanagement durchgeführt werden kann. Die Tipps und Tricks, die hier detailliert und einfach verständlich aufgeführt werden, stellen einen effizienten Weg dar, damit Unternehmen ihre Projekte nicht nur schneller, sondern auch zielführender und kontrollierbarer gestalten.

这里面没有职场厚黑，没有勾心斗角，有的只是一个勤奋又爱动脑筋的职场小虾米，与大家分享她最实在的工作窍门，在工作中的痛和快乐，以及对职场和对人生的感悟……這裡面沒有職場厚黑，沒有勾心鬥角，有的只是一個勤奮又愛動腦筋的職場小蝦米，與大家分享她最實在的工作竅門，在工作中的痛和快樂，以及對職場和對人生的感悟……

Never Go Shopping When You're Hungry: Simple Strategies for Clear Results in Business is a refreshing and thought-provoking guide to successful projects by Paul Colligan. Using the relatable analogy of grocery shopping while hungry, Colligan explores the idea of distraction and its potential to skew our actions and decisions, just as hunger can lead us to make impulsive and often unwise choices at the grocery store.

We often associate procrastinators with laziness, disorganization, and a lack of work ethic, when in reality, procrastination can boost creativity and energy while also reducing those pesky perfectionist tendencies that stifle creative thought. Learn how to procrastinate like the professions. Enjoy quality time with friends and family, take a walk in the park, enjoy a nice book, take that afternoon nap. Learn the five easy steps to a well-balanced life with the power of procrastination.

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.