Project Management Leadership

You have probably always dreamed about managing large projects for awesome companies or organizations. You have most likely dreamed about using a way to manage projects more effectively and more efficiently. The message I want to share with you can help you get closer to your dream. Maybe, you've never managed a project before. Perhaps, you've overseen projects previously, but without any success or very little success. I know you want to change things for the better, but the question might be:how? There’s a way to handle projects with more flow.

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

Leadership is not static. Instead, authority in projects shifts dynamically between project managers, individual team members, and sub-teams, depending on the situation. Leadership may be exercised through a vertical, horizontal, shared, or distributed leadership approach. However, balanced leadership ensures the best suitable approach is used in any given situation. Based on an award-winning global program of research studies, Balanced Leadership is a thorough investigation of balanced leadership in projects.

With a lot of content and a multitude of brand new techniques, this guide is for those who are willing to make real improvements in what they are doing. You will be shown how to break out of the administrative death cycle, the difference between valuable and cursed PMOs, how to rally your people - building momentum and community, how to overcome the cultural mishaps that undermine PMOs, and more.

Many project managers do not have the authority to direct the activities of people on their teams - they can only influence them. The most influential people succeed by focusing less on themselves and their message and more on others. They pay attention; they are brave; they are vulnerable; they are curious, and they look for and acknowledge the things that are important about, and to, the other person. And they model the behavior that they want to see. This book tells you how.

In The Trifecta of Trust, psychometrics and leadership expert Joseph R. Folkman has collected a mountain of compelling data to make the irrefutable case for the value of trust in leadership. Folkman’s life mission has been to provide accurate assessments for leaders to help them understand their effectiveness, impact on outcomes, and specific insights on what they can do to improve. Now you can discover the tools for increasing trust based on quantifiable results and have greater impact and effectiveness as a leader.

The percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat? This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one.

Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach breaks down agile in a way that makes it easy to understand and practical to follow. As one of agile's leading practitioners, Mike Griffiths takes complex concepts and not only simplifies them but makes the listening fun and easily relatable. Whether you're new to agile or just looking for an essential desk reference, Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach is the perfect introduction to all things agile.

Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

RAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating Architecture and Engineering firms out of the trap of commoditization. Learn how to Uncover Hidden Value, Design a Winning Advantage, and Charge More. As your firm pursues business, your staff must navigate difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to get the work and “be competitive.”

The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost. Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

If you have ever been part of a great team, you will know it is exponentially better than being part of a mediocre team. Teams are at the heart of working in complex domains and are essential to the success of agile approaches yet relatively few teams achieve greatness. Agile and leadership coach Geoff Watts has pulled together his many years of experience with all sorts of teams from software to product development, from medical teams to sports teams and has identified five common characteristics of great teams:

Unlock the Future of Leadership with AI In AI-Powered Leadership — Revolutionize Your Business Strategy with Generative AI, discover how cutting-edge AI technologies like ChatGPT can transform your approach to leadership and strategic decision-making. This book provides actionable frameworks and real-world case studies from top executives who have successfully leveraged AI to drive innovation, improve customer engagement, and lead their companies to new heights. What You Will Learn: How to integrate generative AI into high-level decision-making processes Frameworks for transforming ...

No organization is totally free from destructive friction; the forces that make it harder, more complicated and sometimes downright impossible to get things done. Drawing on years of research and featuring case studies on the likes of Uber, Netflix and Boeing, The Friction Project teaches listeners how to become 'friction fixers'. Stanford professors Sutton and Rao unpack how we should think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help listeners identify where to avert and repair bad friction, and where to maintain and inject good friction.

Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this path-breaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

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.

This audiobook will give you an overview of Agile methodologies and how you can use them to speedup development and drive customer satisfaction.

Voici le guide "tout-en-un" de référence à emporter partout avec vous ! Résolument pratique, cette nouvelle bible proposée par la Harvard Business Review offre un accompagnement sur-mesure pour manager vos projets avec succès. Programmes stratégiques, gestion des risques, implication des parties prenantes... Grâce aux méthodes, aux outils et aux conseils d'un spécialiste de la gestion de projets, vous saurez comment affirmer votre leadership pour piloter tous vos projets avec brio.