Breaking the Code of Project Management

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ISBN: 0230608035
ISBN 13: 9780230608030
Autor: Laufer, A
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 267 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF PROJECT MANGMENT FOR SR PM’S and STUDENTS: This book provides senior managers with a comprehensive way at looking at PM. From the psychological perspective of managing high level teams and high profile team members, to new ways at looking at old processes. Using a case study approach – with cases from a NASA project, a Procter and Gamble project and a US Airforce project, this book give managers a way to tackle complicated projectsA STORIES APPROACH TO THE NARRATIVE MAKES THIS BOOK EASY TO READ: Using a story narrative throughout, Laufer provides engaging examples of how project management works at the highest level. The book is also highly referenced, making it a perfect resource for anyone that wants to follow up on a topicRESULTS-FOCUSED LEADERSHIP APPROACH: The book is designed around the five principles of Results-Focused Leadership, with a chapter devoted to each principle. All five principles are equally important for project success, and during project life there is no „right“ sequence for their implementation: 1. Plan and Control to Embrace Change; 2. Create a Results-Oriented Focus; 3.: Develop a Will to Win; 4. Collaborate through Interdependence and Trust; 5. Update and Connect through Intensive Communication“

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Beschreibung

This new classic is an examination of how to refigure project management to be more efficient and effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Using a case study approach, the author, Alex Laufer presents a specific set of guidelines on how to improve the team approach to any project, be it a new airline jet or an IT project.

Autorenporträt

ALEXANDER LAUFER is the Barney Seidle Chair in Construction Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he served as Dean of the Faculty between 2001 and 2005. He is also currently director of the Center for Project Leadership of Columbia University. He is the author of the co-author of Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, NASA History Office, 2005; the co-author of Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders, Wiley, 2000; the author of Simultaneous Management: Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, AMACOM, The American Management Association, 1997; and the co-author of In Quest of Project Excellence through Stories, Procter& Gamble, 1994. He is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Project Management Journal.

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