Project Leadership

You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics.

Wouldn’t you love to use all your skills, including leadership, communication, prioritization, organization, and teamwork? Your vision and the ability to execute on it are key to managing winning projects, not the degrees and certifications you have. You’re the one who would take all the resources and leverage them to fit all the pieces of the project puzzle together.

Management is understood in different ways by different people. Economists regard it as a factor of production. Sociologists see it was a class or group of persons, while practitioners of management treat it as a process. For our understanding, management may be viewed as what a manager does in a formal organization to achieve objectives. It is called by Mary Parker Follet "the art of getting things done through people”. This definition throws light on the fact that managers achieve organizational goals by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves.

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.

Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes three proven fundamentals to unlock the secrets of leadership, influence, and stakeholder communication management! Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it.

Have you ever tried your hand at software development only to find out that it’s much harder than you prepared for? Not only do you have to make sure that your skills are at par with everybody else, but there is also the matter of coordinating with everyone involved in that project. And with collaboration comes the potential for complexity.

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.

Navigate the world of Agile and Scrum with ease and confidence using this comprehensive guide. This book will introduce you to the basics of Agile and Scrum, two of the most popular and effective project management and software development methodologies.

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team, layered on with four resilience factors.

Whether you are about to start a brand new career in project management, or you are an existing project manager that is now looking to climb the corporate ladder, this audiobook will teach you how to manage your projects effectively, from beginning to end. The term "project management" is so broad and can be applied to so many aspects of business that a lot of people get confused by it. But don't worry, this audiobook will break it down into bite-size, relevant chunks that you can take away and apply.

How would you like to have some easy, step-by-step directions for checking how eco-friendly your organization is, where you would like it to be, and how to get there? If you want to make a bigger difference helping people live a greener life, this is definitely the book for you. This book is different from other books on this topic. It is a combination of how-to-do and what-to-do…how to do a analysis of the current state of your organization, how to improve, and what no-cost, low-cost, and innovative projects will help your organization improve its triple bottom line.

For the last 15 years you've been fed a diet of methods and processes as the answer to failing projects. Yet, the best projects are the result of the person that leads them and the environment they create. In order to delight stakeholders and transform organizations you need the skills to inspire project teams and create a culture of success.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are indispensable for measuring business, but if they don’t serve a larger mission, it’s easy to lose sight of why you’re measuring in the first place. Tracking the dynamic relationship between mission and measurement, this audiobook is logical, approachable, and filled with relatable anecdotes.

Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.

The Influential Product Manager teaches product managers how to behave at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer. Product managers are under pressure to drive spectacular results, often without wielding much direct power or authority. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product?

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?

The Project Manager: Life Is a Project is a business fable designed to teach listeners how to apply simple project management techniques to their daily lives to become more organized and reach their goals.

Many people believe that project management is primarily suited for IT and engineering professionals. But the reality is that project management is becoming an important skill across many disciplines, such as HR, finance, and marketing. In fact, organizations are becoming much more project-oriented as they constantly search for ways to sustain a competitive advantage.

Another failed project? You need these 100 project management pearls of wisdom to make the next one a success. In Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster, you get 100 reasons why projects fail with an added bonus: The right questions to ask your team leads to help your project stay on track. Meant for the novice as well as experienced project manager, Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster will help you ask the pointed questions to keep you in the know, ensure your team leads focus on the right things, and put your project in the win column.