Project Leadership

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.

As companies mature, their underlying growth naturally slows-this is called the 'growth curse'. It's a pervasive problem that plagues companies, CEOs, and board members alike. In order to safeguard a company's future, a strategic form of governance in which the board plays a more active role on behalf of all stakeholders, must be activated.

In Project Management with Ease and Purpose, author Evelyn D. Brooks, MSM, PMP, SSGB, pulls from her years of leading multimillion-dollar, high-profile projects to explain theories, techniques, and best practices of project management. She also provides plenty of real-world examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied to avoid PILEUPS and achieve success.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how projects are managed across industries. Project managers and team leaders are discovering that AI-powered tools can shoulder much of the “grunt work” – from drafting project plans to summarizing status updates – allowing human teams to focus on strategic decision-making and creative problem-solving. In my years of leading teams both in the military and corporate world, I’ve learned the value of leveraging the right tools to multiply a team’s effectiveness.

You have to know your team before you can motivate them, and you have to motivate them before you can manage them. In this book are foolproof techniques to make sure your team connects with you, each other, and everyone they need to get the job done. After all, a team should be more than the sum of its parts - and it’s up to the project manager to provide the glue that holds it all together.

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.

A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The audiobook provides a best-practice checklist for eight core areas: strategy setting, technology alignment, business renovation, project management, communications renewal, employee engagement, staff transformation, and organizational design.

Existenzgründung leicht gemacht - schnell und risikofrei zum eigenen erfolgreichen Start-up. Sie möchten endlich Ihr eigener Chef sein und nicht länger für die Ziele Anderer arbeiten? Sie möchten Ihren 9-to-5-Job gegen finanzielle Unabhängigkeit und mehr Freizeit tauschen? Sie träumen schon länger vom Schritt in die Selbstständigkeit, waren aber bis jetzt von den schier unüberschaubaren Regelungen und den komplizierten Abläufen überfordert? Dann ist dieses Hörbuch Ihr Schlüssel zur Freiheit und Sorglosigkeit.

Seventy-five percent of organizations rank leadership skills as most important for successful projects - the Project Management Institute. You can make well over $100,000 with experience and leadership - ProjectManager.com. Effective project managers are the experts that companies want to hire - and top team members want to work for.

If you haven’t heard of the term before, agile project management is an approach that allows you to break a large project into smaller and more manageable tasks. This way, you and your team will be able to adapt to change quickly and deliver work in a fast and efficient manner. If you’re new to this methodology, it might seem complex and overwhelming at first. But, once you dig deeper and start informing yourself, you will realize that you’re already doing many of the things this type of management is based on.

In this book, we aim to simplify program management by providing a comprehensive guide that breaks down its core concepts and practices. We will illustrate how program management can be implemented in various industries and sectors, including construction, engineering, IT, and government. Our goal is to equip listeners with the knowledge and tools to understand program management. Whether you are new to program management or seeking to deepen your understanding, this book will provide you with a practical and accessible roadmap to demystify program management and help you succeed in your role.

自由自在の「創造力」をその手に！アップルの創業者スティーブ・ジョブズや、アマゾンの創業者ジェフ・ベゾスなど、「世界を変えた」イノベーターの思考方法を子細に分析すると、共通する5つのステップが浮かび上がってくる。

■「考えること」を強みに変えて、仕事で成果を上げる方法がわかる本

Seja você um líder novato ou um executivo experiente, é fundamental saber conduzir reuniões eficazes–e até mesmo agradáveis! Talvez você não esteja se preparando adequadamente ou tenha dificuldade de prender a atenção das pessoas.

This transformative course empowers project managers to lead with empathy and emotional intelligence, unlocking the potential for stronger team connections, improved stakeholder relationships, and outstanding project outcomes. Listeners will learn how to build trust, resolve conflicts, and communicate empathetically to create high-performing, motivated teams and align with stakeholder expectations. Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will: Develop core empathy skills to connect deeply with team members and stakeholders.

Too many businesses miss opportunity after opportunity to design, plan, and achieve intentional business change. Why? Because they charter projects focused on delivering software products: IT projects. But as this groundbreaking book points out, there’s no such thing as an IT project - or at least there shouldn’t be. It’s always about intentional business change, or what’s the point? It’s time to stop providing simplistic, one-dimensional, all-you-gotta-do panaceas.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan.

It's a sad fact that most projects fail - as many as 70%, according to one well-known study. Those failed projects cost billions of dollars. Perhaps they’ve even cost you or your company. You’ve hired certified project managers and implemented project management techniques, and yet you still don’t have the success you need. Bare Knuckled Project Management has the answer.

Building Digital Products is designed for the new Product Manager who feels in way over their head, the experienced Product Manager looking to step up his or her game, and the expert Product Manager who understands that there is always more to learn. Building Digital Products maps the full development cycle from problem identification to selling your solution, to understanding the right data to track.

Over the last couple of decades, complexity across work, life and technology has increased. While the emergence of new technologies has simplified life in many ways, it has brought work and life closer together as never before. This leads to surprising outcomes in the way we perceive complex scenarios which impacts our judgments and risk-taking. Now technologist, project manager, and entrepreneur Taz Lake draws on more than 20 years of experience to explore this concept through stories, examples, and industry research.