Project Success

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.

Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics.

You may be a project manager or a stakeholder with "street smarts". Maybe you have expertise in the nuts and bolts of project execution. Or you might be a "book smart" expert on the rules and tools of the trade. Whatever your strengths, most project managers agree it's a juggling act to balance people and processes. Nearly every project requires a balance of both practical and conceptual skills. Now you can fill in the gaps to gain a perfect balance of the two.

The Grieving Project is an inventive, unique spoken-word audiobook from award-winning artist, author, playwright Aoede (Lisa A. Sniderman) that sets the stages of grief to music to help us move from surviving to thriving.... The entire audiobook - all 22 tracks - is spoken over original musical compositions.

Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs. Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.

Can't finish the projects you start? Are your walls covered in Post-Its with life-changing ideas scrawled on them, but never to be realized? Do you wish there was a guide that could take you from start to finish of a project so you can finally quit dreaming and start doing? Full of tried-and-true methods as well as inspirational anecdotes, Whole Hog will help you through every step along the way. So finish writing that cookbook, complete that script you've been putting off, and grab your next project by the horns - we've got a lot of work to do!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Can't find a way to generate ideas? Do you want to carry out your project easily? How do the process of innovation, the combinations, the ways to reinvent and recreate ideas work? this book will give you the opportunity to change and teach you to see the creative potential of the ideas that surround us, to develop projects in any field using simple designs, and to use this practical guide to learn the terminology of project management; this book contains tools for creating your innovation project for business or school.