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The Little Engine That Could
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Author: | Watty Piper |
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Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap |
Released: | 1978 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 48 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Okay, maybe I am a little sentimental here, but this book takes prejudice and self perception head on. It is a mantra that any project manager that is facing huge odds should read.
The classic tale of persevering against the odds!
The Little Engine That Could comes to life all over again in this gorgeous oversized picture book with foil on the cover and the beautiful art from the 1950s. A train of toys desperately need an engine to take them over the mountain so that they can deliver toys and food to children. But none of the big, important engines will help them. Luckily, the Little Blue Engine comes along. She is small, but she has confidence that she can do it, and she does!
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Author: | Malcolm Gladwell |
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Publisher: | Back Bay Books |
Released: | January 2002 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 301 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
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The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment
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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.
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
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Author: | Bill George, Peter Sims, David Gergen |
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Publisher: | Jossey-Bass |
Released: | March 2007 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 251 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today ’s top leaders —with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five key areas:
- Knowing your authentic self
- Defining your values and leadership principles
- Understanding your motivations
- Building your support team
- Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
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Author: | Daniel H. Pink |
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Publisher: | Riverhead Books |
Released: | December 2013 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 272 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Every project manager is in sales. PMs are always trying to convince someone to give people, money, time, expertise, knowledge, etc. They are always in sales mode... they just don't think of it that way.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.
But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges:
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive
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Author: | Noah J. Goldstein Ph.D., Steve J. Martin, Robert B. Cialdini Ph.D. |
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Publisher: | Free Press |
Released: | December 2009 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 272 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Project managers spend 90% of their time trying to persuade people to do something be it stakeholders, executives, end users, or the project team. They spend very little time learning how to do it better. Yes! gives you fifty ways to change your message and help you persuade anyone to do anything (well, almost). You can also get our excel spreadsheet that helps you focus on the right tools for what ever you are trying to do.
New York Times bestselling introduction of fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life.
Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion.
Strategic Negotiation: A Breakthrough Four-Step Process for Effective Business Negotiation
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Author: | Brian Dietmeyer |
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Publisher: | Kaplan Business |
Released: | June 2004 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 224 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Although this book it out of print, it has a wonderful and easy to use "checklist" to prep up for a negotiation. It is a great follow-on read to Getting to Yes! and talks heavily about the process of negotiation.
Corporate negotiation is a process like all other business strategies. In today's challenging and ever-changing business environment, it is imperative to understand negotiations from the perspective of both the buyer and the seller. In Strategic Negotiation, Dietmeyer and Kaplan use a research-based approach to negotiation that assists sales professionals in reaching their own business goals, while ensuring that their customers meet budget and professional objectives as well-going beyond win-win to achieve true, measurable business value for all parties at the negotiating table. The authors use their own strategic, four-step negotiation process to teach sales professionals how to attain quantifiable value in their dealings:
Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme
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Author: | Robert K. Wysocki |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Released: | December 2013 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 768 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Another great book by Mr. Wysocki, a personal friend. This books continues to meet Bob's standard of well written project management reference and text books.
The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated.
Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics. With more than 32,000 copies sold in the last three editions, it has now been fully updated to cover the new PMBOK 5. Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added more than 100 pages of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing the coverage of best-of-breed methods and tools for ensuring project management success.
With enriched case studies, accompanying exercises and solutions on the companion website, and PowerPoint slides for all figures and tables, the book is ideal for instructors and students as well as active project managers.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
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Author: | Thomas J. Peters |
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Publisher: | HarperBusiness |
Released: | February 2006 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 400 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
If you want to explore and improve your leadership style, this is a "Must Read." Why leadership? Because projects struggle under managers and they excel under leaders. Not only that, but this also gets you thinking and talking like your business leaders. How can you communicate with them if you do not think like them?
Touted as the "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.
Effective Complex Project Management: An Adaptive Agile Framework for Delivering Business Value
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Author: | Robert K. Wysocki |
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Publisher: | J. Ross Publishing |
Released: | September 2014 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 328 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
If you are stepping up to manage complex projects this is a great text. It is wonderful as a standalone read, as a college text, or a desk reference.
Developed, refined, and validated by over 20 years of client experiences, Effective Complex Project Management offers a proven solution to managing any project that must succeed in the face of organizational complexity and market uncertainty. When applied and managed correctly, this intuitive framework and robust methodology will deliver the desired business value of programs and projects without fail!
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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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