Project Success

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book, he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organisations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

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, he supervisado planes nuevos y de modificación utilizando recursos on-shore, offshore y de terceros.

Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las veces las grandes visiones se convierten en auténticas pesadillas: según las estadísticas, un asombroso 92 por ciento de los megaproyectos superan el presupuesto o el cronograma, o ambas cosas. Incluso los esfuerzos más modestos, como emprender un pequeño negocio, suelen fracasar.

Every region of the country has its unique signature foods. Likewise, each of us has a "sweet spot"—a signature skill or talent that can fuel your career and raise your paycheck. In Never Order Barbecue in Maine, Ken shares entertaining and wise anecdotes from his own varied career paths—as well as insight from noted professionals who have been there, done that—to help you find your sweet spot and turn your job into a deeply satisfying, well-paying career.

In our society we hear a lot of about IQ. The general norm is that a person with a high IQ is bound for success. But is that necessarily true? Some are naturally gifted with the ability to solve problems and think of the fly. However, the ability to interact with others in social settings or in a work place truly overshadows those with a high IQ. But why is that? How can understanding other people’s emotions have a greater impact than a high IQ?

Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt draw on their years of innovative practice and research to describe how leading with care enriches people and transforms organizations in our challenging times.

Few things are as fundamental in business as communication. At a time when routines are being displaced by automation and everything is just "a project," employees often feel uninformed, and companies feel like piles of chaos. Face-to-face meetings, emails, and phone calls are holding the enterprise together in a makeshift way, as if tied together with twine. Internal politics is not only the order of the day, but a fundamental tool for effectiveness. Board members as well as employees who simply want to get meaningful work done are becoming more and more frustrated.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à utiliser le diagramme d'Ishikawa ! Le diagramme conçu par le professeur Kaoru Ishikawa est un outil précieux de gestion de la qualité qui distingue les causes et les effets d'un problème survenu dans une entreprise. Prenant la forme d'un poisson à arêtes, cette représentation graphique donne une meilleure visualisation de la hiérarchie des causes pour vous aider à identifier plus clairement les sources de la difficulté.

Arbeiten in agilen Teams und flachen Hierarchien ist toll und schafft Freiräume, die in klassischen Strukturen oft fehlen. Dass in agilen Strukturen zugleich große Herausforderungen lauern können, erfahren Mitarbeiter*innen und Führungskräfte spätestens dann, wenn Entscheidungen getroffen werden müssen. Wen beziehe ich ein, wen nicht? Welche Aspekte müssen berücksichtigt werden? Und nicht zuletzt: Darf, kann und sollte ich das überhaupt selbst entscheiden?

In the fast-paced world we live in, mastering productivity and focus is the key to achieving your dreams. Are you tired of constantly feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list? Do you struggle to maintain your concentration in a world filled with distractions? Look no further than "The Productivity and Focus Project: Mastering Your Time and Attention to Elevate Your Efficiency and Achieve Your Goals." This audiobook is your personal roadmap to reclaiming your time, harnessing your attention, and skyrocketing your efficiency..

Sufferers of depression, lonely people, and everybody in between - you need to hear Overcome Depression as soon as possible! In this audiobook, you'll learn how to smash the sadness that has held you back for far too long.

Project You by Michael Abdallah is a much-needed guide for understanding how health, well-being, and fitness are related to energy and spirituality. If you've been struggling to move past scars, have unrelenting triggers, and at times find yourself overwhelmed and suffering in your own distress, then Project You invites you to go on a journey and allow yourself to develop a better understanding of why it is you think, act, and feel the way you do, and through this newfound self-empowerment, you will finally meet yourself!

India's economy has tripled in size over the past twenty years. And yet, the generation that propelled this growth is facing rising levels of stress and depression. Furthermore, the new generation entering the workforce today dreams big but faces a highly competitive work environment. How can both these generations fire on all cylinders and lead fulfilling lives? This book attempts to answer this question by using the principles of Simplicity, Specialization, Creativity and Collaboration.

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.

En Encuentra tu pasión Graciela de Oto nos invita a la aventura de generar un proyecto de vida conectado con nuestros deseos y nuestra verdadera identidad, lleno de desafíos y recompensas, para evitar permanecer inmersos en una vida monótona y sin sentido. Todos tenemos talentos y habilidades únicas, y nuestras pasiones deben actuar como faros que iluminen el sendero hacia una vida profesional plena.

What if I were to tell you the conventional career intelligence publicly available surrounding careers in construction has mostly held you back? This is the case for a few reasons. First, it’s incomplete and missing context. Second, it doesn’t provide a holistic approach to career development. And third, it’s missing all the internal work that’s first required to achieve career success, because we live from the inside out.

Unklarheit ist ein großer Stressfaktor in unserem Leben Tagtäglich müssen wir in Windeseile Entscheidungen treffen, Projekte abschließen und verschiedenen Rollen gerecht werden - bis wir gar nicht mehr erkennen können, wohin wir eigentlich steuern. Und uns am Ende der Wahl einer neuen Kaffeemaschine mit übertriebener Leidenschaft widmen - anstatt einmal innezuhalten und das zu tun, was jetzt wirklich wichtig ist.

In Project Management for You, Cesar unlocks these tested and proven principles that allow big corporations like Apple and Google to make detailed promises of new products and services to their customer base months in advance and still deliver it 100 percent of the time. Easy to understand, skipping the corporate lingo, and using powerful and colorful stories, Cesar will take you step by step through the stages of bringing an idea to reality.

Wenige Dinge sind im Unternehmen so grundlegend wie Kommunikation. In einer Zeit, in der die Routine durch Automation verdrängt wird und alles nur noch "ein Projekt" ist, fühlen sich Mitarbeitende oft uninformiert und das eigene Unternehmen gleicht einem Chaoshaufen. Wie an Bindfäden halten persönliche Meetings, E-Mails und Telefonate die Unternehmensarchitektur notdürftig zusammen und Politik ist nicht nur an der Tagesordnung, sondern grundlegendes Werkzeug für Wirksamkeit. Immer mehr sind davon frustriert.

Los nuevos descubrimientos en el área de las neurociencias, la psicología del pensamiento y el comportamiento, y la dinámica de las redes vivas están dejando obsoletos los programas educativos, los modelos clásicos de motivación y liderazgo y las formas tradicionales del management. Pensamiento en Red es un modelo transdisciplinario que integra avances de la psicología, las neurociencias, la sociología, la teoría de las redes complejas y las nuevas teorías de la comunicación.