Project Management Leadership

RE:Think Innovation makes coming up with great ideas everybody’s business. People think innovation isn’t sustainable, so they make it much harder than it has to be. Experts portray it as confusing and complicated, so they can charge big fees. Executives make it intimidating and complex, so they appear smarter and important. Traditional innovators imply you need a special degree or training to know how to do it right. RE:Think Innovation answers the question of how to tie individual competence with innovation techniques to direct corporate outcomes.

In this book, you'll get fresh takes on well-beaten topics such as leadership, accountability, and a step-by-step approach to innovation. It contains a simple way to build winning strategies and align efforts across the entire enterprise. All of these breakthrough insights are based on the same set of principles. Discover how these principles make air travel safer, employees happier and smarter, weight loss easier, health care better, and business meetings shorter.

Lots of entrepreneurs are using the lean startup philosophy to streamline their business practices and make effective market launches without using up a lot of capital. You can be one of them. This audiobook is going to teach you everything you need to know about lean startups, its specific philosophy, and how it edges out traditional businesses. If you want an amazing startup from day one, this comprehensive guide will start at the drawing board and accompany you as you launch your business and develop quality products tailored to the market.

The United States is abundantly rich in adults with know-how. By connecting mentors - educated adults with expertise and knowledge - with mentees - teens and young adults who lack motivation, experience, and role models in their lives - we can begin to close this gap dramatically. We can prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow by adding real-world, project-based experience to their education.

Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management. Includes how to deliver a successful project from start to finish; communicate effectively with people at all levels; manage changes and control scope creep; identify and deal with risks; and work with common project-management methodologies.

This audiobook is a how-to guide and will provide you with all the information you need to be successful in your project sponsorship. It focuses on the three key areas of project sponsorship: stewardship, decisions, and results.

Fraternity parties can be legendary, talked about by students, parents, alumni, and brothers for years to come. But one wrong move - a band pulling a no-show, not having enough money to pay entertainers, or the cops showing up - can turn a once-in-a-lifetime experience into a memorable failure. As the social chair of your fraternity, it's on you to guarantee every event your chapter hosts is an overwhelming success.

Wie schaffen es die erfolgreichsten Leute der Welt, Work-Life-Balance zu kreieren? Wie schaffen sie es scheinbar mühelos, all die tollen Erfolge in den Bereichen Business, Geld, Familie oder Gesundheit zu erzielen? Wie teilen sich diese Menschen ihre 24 Stunden, die ihnen täglich zur Verfügung stehen? Falls du dich immer schon gefragt hast, wie du die Stunden am Tag für dein Einkommen, deine Familie und dich selbst nur aufteilen solltest, um das Optimum herauszuholen, wirst du nach diesem Hörbuch, wie es viele der anderen erfolgreichen Menschen meistern.

Scrum is a project management approach based on Agile principles that allows organisations and individuals to deliver the highest possible value in the shorted possible time. This framework has often been met with adversity as it is a departure to traditional methods, but has stood the test of time and has demonstrated through countless organisation that they are able to deliver more with less.

Every day around the world, across all business sectors, projects of various size and scope are being planned, started and completed and each one of these has a project manager in charge of ensuring that each member of each project team is working as effectively as possible in order to see it through successfully. If you are interested in learning how to join their ranks, then this is the book you have been waiting for.

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

There are a host of neuroscientific explanations for why laughter makes us feel so great. Laughter triggers "feel good" chemicals in the brain which activate opiate receptors throughout your body and mind. Creating a workplace culture in which laughter is not only allowed but expected is an important step in building the trust, openness, authenticity, storytelling, and teamwork (TOAST) that are essential to any healthy collaborative environment.

It can be challenging to find the time to read and study for the project management professional (PMP) test! But now you can learn to ace the PMP exam without memorizing a thing! This audiobook teaches you to see processes in a totally new way so that you will understand and remember. In stark contrast to the traditional, boring, long PMP exam prep books, this audiobook simplifies everything down to make learning logical and simple.

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.

The role of project manager requires maintaining a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team, and the organization. This provides a real challenge in the fields of time management and prioritization. Successful Project Management covers the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion, and contains tested and tried techniques on managing stake holders, effective risk management, project planning, launch, and execution. This fifth edition contains new features including summary points at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms.

How effective are your user stories? Agile is a pragmatic-approach mind-set. Scrum provides you a framework, but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically create user stories in Scrum.

Sumérgete en 'Cómo hacer negocios con tecnología: El toque Midas', un fascinante manual de Daniel Cestau Liz que desentraña los secretos de triunfar en el dinámico mundo de la tecnología. Desde estrategias comerciales hasta casos de éxito, este libro es una certificación única en su clase. Con el enfoque de un 'Rey Midas' tecnológico, Daniel comparte décadas de experiencia, guiándote para elevar la facturación, aumentar la rentabilidad y destacar en la industria.

How is your Scrum going? Scrum provides you a framework but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically implement Scrum.

The revolution in technology has opened the space for more opportunities in this Internet age. The opportunity created by this technological innovation has led to the proliferation of online businesses. Businesses oftentimes require abstract skills to maintain. These abstract characteristics found within a person would be an added advantage to the overall success of the business. So it is not just about hiring a person because of their degrees, it is about looking beyond this and seeing the qualities in such a person.

Etwa zwei Drittel aller Projekte stecken ständig oder akut in Schwierigkeiten - weil Auftraggeber immer neue Anforderungen formulieren, Vertragspartner oder Subunternehmer nicht leisten, was vereinbart wurde, oder Zeitdruck und interne Konflikte den Projekterfolg gefährden. Ausgehend von acht wesentlichen Rollen eines Projektleiters beschreibt der "Projekt-Kompass" schwierige Situationen, mit denen Sie früher oder später konfrontiert werden, und in denen Sie mit klassischen Projektmanagement-Methoden allein nicht weiterkommen.