Todd Williams
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Author: | Daniel H. Pink |
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Publisher: | Riverhead Books |
Released: | April 2011 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 288 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
Drive is a must read for anyone that has to motivate people to do anything. As a project manager, part of your job is inspiring people to work on or support your project. You would be foolish not to read this book and follow its advice.
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money —the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home —is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary Performance
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Author: | Jackie Barretta |
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Publisher: | AMACOM |
Released: | October 2014 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
Teams are the center piece of any project. Without a team you will most likely fail at meeting any criteria for a successful project. Jackie, a personal friend of mine, has written a great book that will open your mind on a different approach to teams.
Lean Six Sigma For Service
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Author: | Michael George |
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Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Education |
Released: | July 2003 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 300 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
If you are trying to implement a lean philosophy in a service industry (or just your projects), this book is a great resource. It describes what is needs and how to implement it. As a "desk resource" it at times repeats itself; however, that is great for reading sections at a time. There are a lot of tools that can be used by project managers to lean out their methodology.
Bring the advantages of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into your services organization.
The Seven Arts of Change: Leading Business Transformation That Lasts
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Author: | David Shaner |
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Publisher: | Union Square Press |
Released: | November 2010 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 184 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This book is currently under review, more details will be added when available
In my opinion, as a project manager, you cannot read too many books on handling change. Each gives you a different perspective on how to effectively deliver a project whose product is valuable. This is a lesser known book, but has a great perspective.
Many businesses try to change, but few succeed. At best, a few buzzwords and new reports become part of the company's structure. At worst, programs crash and burn, and the members of the organization become irreparably disillusioned with the revolving door of new-mission statements. According to David Shaner-a business consultant with a 100% success rate of change at companies including Duracell, Frito-Lay, Caesars Palace and Gillette-the problem is that those changes don't address either individuals or the corporate culture. They're only on the surface.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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Author: | Roger Fisher, William L. Ury |
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Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Released: | May 2011 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
One of the primary tasks of a project manager is to negotiate—negotiate scope, negotiate for resources, negotiate for money, negotiate end dates, etc.—there is almost nothing that a project manager has as a give. Even in your personal life, negotiation skills are essential for dealing with everything from your kids' bedtime, to the price of your next car. Understanding the art and science of negotiation is critical. This book, especially in conjunction with one of our classes, is a great way to get you down the road to improving you negotiation skills. Don't be fooled though, negotiation takes practice.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
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Author: | Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling |
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Publisher: | Free Press |
Released: | April 24, 2012 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 352 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
This is a non-project management book that discusses how to achieve results in the execution of a plan. The four disciplines are great change management tools that get results and keep people focused. Where it is valuable to a project manager is in its education on how to keep people focused on a goal. It can you used to help your team on short term progress or on driving your project's customer to focus on what they need to achieve success. If you plan to make the move from project management to any other operational mode--even to the PMO--this book gives a number of good tools.
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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Author: | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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Publisher: | Scribner |
Released: | Reprint edition August 12, 2014 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 304 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
As change management is critical to the success of a project, you should have an understanding of both individual and organizational change management processes. Kubler-Ross wrote On Death and Dying as a result of analyzing people are they went through massive life-change. The result was a paradigm shift in how people looked at change. Although the key to project success is organizational change management, we often have to deal with change at the individual level, too. This is the book that is the foundation for most theories on individual change management.
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
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Author: | Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton |
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Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
Released: | February 2004 |
Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 454 |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Projects build capabilities to meet 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.
Rescue the Problem Project
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Author: | Todd C. Williams |
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Publisher: | AMACOM |
Released: | March 20, 2011 |
Pages: | 277 |
Type: | Hardcover |
ISBN: | 978-0201835953 |
Type: | Paperback |
ISBN: | 978-0814439418 |
Amazon #1 Bestseller in Business and Technical Project Management!
Back from the brink... the first fail-safe recovery plan for turning around troubled projects and keeping the problems from reoccurring.
When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, the usual response is to browbeat the project team and point fingers of blame. Not helpful. For these situations, what is needed is an objective process for accurately assessing what is wrong and a clear plan of action for fixing the problem.
In Rescue the Problem Project, Todd Williams, President of eCameron, describes how projects go wrong and what to do to fix them. It focuses first on people, then process, and finally technology. By doing this it helps you find the root cause of the failure and helps you prevent it from happening again.
Strategies for Project Sponsorship
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Author: | Vicki James, Ron Rosenhead, Peter Taylor |
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Publisher: | Management Concepts Press |
Released: | May 22, 2013 |
Type: | Softcover |
Pages: | 204 |
ISBN: | 978-1567264067 |
The project sponsor is critical to project success, yet it is a role that is often assigned to a member of the organization with little knowledge or training in project management practices. This creates challenges not only for the sponsor but for the project manager. The organization suffers too if key members of the project team are not fully utilized, as valuable resources are wasted. In Strategies for Project Sponsorship, the authors address this challenge from all three vantage points that of the project manager, the project sponsor, and the organization. Based on their practical experience and solid research, they offer practical methods that project manager s can use to optimize the participation of the sponsor. They also offer clear and straightforward guidance for project sponsors on how to properly execute their duties and contribute to project success. Executives will gain valuable perspective on the organization s projects and key players. From defining the roles and responsibilities of the project sponsor to suggesting specific practices that maximize the working relationship between the sponsor and project manager, this book is the ultimate guide. Examples from real-world sponsor experiences, as well as tips, techniques, and tools, enhance its applicability and practicality. This book should be given to every newly assigned project sponsor, read and referred to by every project manager, and on the desk of every organizational executive as a reference.
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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