Other's Books on Leadership and Project Management
Education is critical to everyone in your organization. Learning about technical tools, aspects of project management and dealing with people is essential in improving performance and minimizing your frustration. Between seminars, forums, books, magazines, though, you could spend all your time just trying to find the right item. eCameron has tried to help with that by sharing some of our knowledge and helping our clients and friends get a start on the process. These items may be found in our Blog or eJournal on our website in the form of discussions, ramblings, templates and procedures.
This section of our website is a list of recommended books and a details about the books that you will not get from the publisher or a bookseller. Below you will find reviews (or a detailed synopses) we have created. In the cases where time has not allowed us to complete a review, but the book is recommended, we have supplied information from the publishers. As we finish the reviews we will modify this page and provide links to more detail. Some of the details will be published in our newsletters but since there are more books than months in the year, some detail will only be found here. Visit this page often to see what is new.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
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Author: | Patrick Lencioni |
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Publisher: | Jossey-Bass |
Released: | April 2002 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 229 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Without a team there is no project, there is no success. One of your primary jobs is to build a team from people you mostly likely do not have authority over. The five key attributes: results, accountability, commitment, conflict, and trust, will help you build a better team quicker.
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Author: | Eliyahu M. Goldratt |
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Publisher: | North River Press; 30th Anniversary Edition |
Released: | June 2014 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 362 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
If you are managing projects in a manufacturing setting, this book is critical. If you are managing a project in a company using the theory of constraints, this book is essential. It is the foundation of a pervasive methodology and the precursor to critical chain project management. he is recommended reading before reading any of the other books on critical chain.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Author: | Stephen R. Covey |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Released: | Anniversary Edition November 2013) |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 432 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
The title says it all. What project manager does not need to improve their effectiveness? This is a bible that you should always keep in close reach. A true "Must Read."
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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Author: | Peter M. Senge |
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Publisher: | Doubleday |
Released: | March 2006 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 445 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Business and projects are complex systems. The people that run them need to create organizations and teams that can learn and grow. This classic business book is a great treatise how to become a better lead and run a better project.
This revised edition of Peter Senge ’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book ’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization ’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people ’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.
ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
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Author: | Jeffrey M. Hiatt |
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Publisher: | Prosci Learning Center Publications |
Released: | August 2006 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 146 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
Tired of hearing about change and how your project is implementing it, but have no idea how to make it happen? ADKAR is the gold standard process to follow to help make that happen. This, and a little leadership, will get you ahead of the pack.
Why do some changes fail while others succeed?
How can you make sense of the many tools and approaches for managing change?
How can you lead change successfully, both in your personal life and professional career?
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
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Author: | Patrick Lencioni |
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Publisher: | Jossey-Bass |
Released: | February 2010 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Excellent project managers are relationship builder both with the project team and the stakeholders. You need to continually build those skills and build trust.
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Author: | Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne |
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Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
Released: | March 2011 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 224 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
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Author: | Arbinger Institute |
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Publisher: | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Released: | April 2015 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Leadership is an art. As a project manager you need to become a better leader. You will not find that in any single book or class. You need to learn, study and practice. It helps you develop tools to better understand the difficult situations you face daily.
Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to increase year after year, and the book ’s popularity has gone global, with editions now available in over twenty languages.
Through a story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges on the job and in his family, the authors expose the fascinating ways that we can blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and increase happiness.
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Author: | Jill Konrath |
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Publisher: | Kaplan Publishing |
Released: | December 2005 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 272 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
As a project manager, you are all about selling and persuasion. If you are not good at it, you better learn now. This book focuses on communicating in a way to get people to react to you.
Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away.
It's time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. In today's crazy marketplace, new sales strategies are needed to penetrate these big accounts.
Discover how to:
- Target accounts where you have the highest likelihood of success.
- Find the names of prospects who can use your offering.
- Create breakthrough value propositions that capture their attention.
- Develop an effective, multi-faceted account-entry campaign.
- Overcome obstacles and objections that derail your sale efforts.
- Position yourself as an invaluable resource, not a product pusher.
- Have powerful initial sales meetings that build unstoppable momentum.
- Differentiate yourself from other sellers.
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Author: | Neil Rackham |
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Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Education |
Released: | May 1988 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 197 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Every project manager and business analyst should read this book. Ignore the implication of the title, which is just an acronym for a process, and dive in to what the customers real problem is that you are trying to solve. This will change your project deliverable to the most value they have ever received.
Written by Neil Rackham, former president and founder of Huthwaite corporation, SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales force. Unquestionably the best-documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation's massive 12-year, $1-million dollar research into effective sales performance, this groundbreaking resource details the revolutionary SPIN (Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-payoff) strategy.