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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
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Author: | Geoffrey A. Moore |
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Publisher: | HarperBusiness |
Released: | August 2006 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 227 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
To be a great project manager, you need to understand business. Your job is applying change to improve an organization, you had better understand why some changes and some leaders can create a metric differ to a company.
Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies
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Author: | Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton |
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Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
Released: | April 2006 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 320 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Projects build capabilities to met corporate goals. If you are a CEO, you need to make sure your employees and vendors know what those goals are and how they fit in to the plan. If you are a project manager, you need to know the bounds of you project. If you are anywhere in-between, you need to understand how all the pieces fit together and keep it all aligned.
Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.
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?
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.
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 Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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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 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.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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Author: | Sheryl Sandberg |
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Publisher: | Knopf |
Released: | March 2013 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Project Management is one to the few disciplines where the glass ceiling seems to be non-existent. Daily our multicultural, multigenerational, multigender teams build great products for our businesses. We need to understand ourselves and others better. Lean In is a great book for either gender to read to learn more about how to avoid gender issues on your projects.
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women ’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women ’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune ’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time ’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table, ” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
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Author: | John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen |
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Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
Released: | November 2012 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 224 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all. ” She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.
The Next Evolution - Enhancing and Unifying Project and Change Management: The Emergence One Method for Total Project Success
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Author: | Thomas Luke Jarocki |
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Publisher: | Brown & Williams Publishing |
Released: | June 2011 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 326 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Still confused on how projects and change management fit together? If so, read this book. It gives a great history of both and outlines a process that may work for your company. If nothing else, the process described will help you understand how your company can fold the two disciplines together. The only detractor is the author's contniual reference to "his" methodology. However, this does give you a good example of its implementation.
Just about every project professional agrees that "success" today is not just about being "on time, within budget, and according to scope" but one in which there is successful organizational change and the broad organizational adoption of project outputs and deliverables. However, because the project management and organizational/behavioral change management disciplines are often practiced as separate entities, the road to success often becomes divided, leading to poor outcomes for both the project manager and stakeholders throughout the organization.
Project Rescue Blog Posts
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Tales of an Expert Witness: Sex, Lies, and Video Tape (Part II) Written on Wednesday, 02 December 2015 06:30Trust relationships, certifications, and standards sound like such a safe harbor. These sound like such great words in a proposal or statement of work. How could you possibly go wrong…
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Tales of an Expert Witness: Sex, Lies, and Video (Part I) Written on Friday, 01 August 2014 00:00The subpoena shows up at the front desk and the call comes to you to pick it up. That nauseating feeling in your gut is the prelude to a long…
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The 6 Ps of Public Sector Project Failure: Profit, Periodicity, Politics, Passion, Press, and Pay Written on Friday, 30 May 2014 00:00"The government is incapable of running projects. Simply put, their miserably high failure rate proves that government should be out of the project management business." There are plenty of examples…
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Case Study: Division Of Unemployment Assistance, Massachusetts/Deloitte Written on Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00In May 2007, the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) signed a contract with Bearing Point, Inc. to modernize the State’s unemployment processing system. The project was called the DUA…
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Case Study: $250 Million Failure, Who Are You Going To Sue? Written on Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00In order to comply with the Affordable Care Act, the State of Oregon made the decision to build its own Health Insurance Exchange (ORHIX). An online portal to allow applicants…
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Consultants Cheat Written on Sunday, 25 March 2012 00:00"We can fix this project ourselves." I hear that line all the time. And, of course, you can. It will just be a lot slower and more expensive because consultants…
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Decision Makers, Shakers, and Fakers Written on Sunday, 12 June 2011 00:00Decisions, deshmisions, what is the big deal? Anyone can make a decision! Hardly. After years of working with ineffective initiatives and consternated companies, I have a healthy respect for the…
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Passionately Dispassionate Written on Sunday, 29 May 2011 00:00People routinely ask me the question, "What do you do when you find yourself on a project that is a hopeless failure?" It was raised again a few weeks ago…
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Leading Without Authority Written on Sunday, 27 March 2011 00:00Leadership is more than leading the people reporting to you. Too often, you need to lead people over which you lack any authority. The absence of hierarchical advantage adds a…
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The Consultant's Lore Written on Sunday, 16 January 2011 00:00"Why is it that when you get hired you are no longer the expert?" A chuckle rippled through the audience; however, the woman asking the question was serious. I turned…
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The Snake Pit, Taking the Poison Out of Technical Debt Written on Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00Projects build in technical debt and maintenance groups remove it—if your organization has a maintenance group. Technical debt accrues in any product, whether or not it has a technical component.…
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Five (more) Stupid Management Decisions on Failing Projects Written on Sunday, 20 June 2010 00:00A few weeks ago, I posted an article on five of the ten stupidest decisions management had done on troubled projects, as promised, here are the other five. Although these…
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