Project Leadership

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant new reality. Think of how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to an enormously successful product launch in eleven months. But such successes are the exception. Consider how London’s Crossrail project delivered five years late and billions over budget. More modest endeavours, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

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The CEO of Technology shows today's CIOs how to become exceptional leaders and bring value to their organization. By taking lessons from some of the world's best CEOs, you'll develop the traits and characteristics that drive legendary leadership. Interviews with top executives at leading global technology companies including Apple, Boeing, Direct TV, Facebook, Texas Instruments, and more provide deep and valuable insight into what it means to lead in a hyper-driven tech environment.

Mit Projektmanagement zum Erfolg – Wie Sie Projekte effizienter, schneller und kontrollierbarer abschließen: Haben Sie das Gefühl Ihre Projekte laufen nicht so zügig und effektiv ab, wie Sie es geplant hatten? Möchten Sie zu einer respektierten und durchsetzungsfähigen Führungspersönlichkeit werden, die ihr Team motiviert und zusammenhält? Möchten Sie bei der Projektplanung schnell auf veränderte Kundenwünsche reagieren, um die Zufriedenheit Ihrer Klienten zu erhöhen? Dann ist dieses Buch ein absolutes Muss für Sie!

The Influential Product Manager teaches product managers how to behave at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer. Product managers are under pressure to drive spectacular results, often without wielding much direct power or authority. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product?

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team, layered on with four resilience factors.

Managing Priorities is your guide to prioritizing anything-anytime and anywhere. Harry Max digs into the best practices for prioritization at Apple, DreamWorks, NASA, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and beyond, and brings them together in a single, practical method that you can apply step by step.

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With ninety-seven short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice.

This transformative course empowers project managers to lead with empathy and emotional intelligence, unlocking the potential for stronger team connections, improved stakeholder relationships, and outstanding project outcomes. Listeners will learn how to build trust, resolve conflicts, and communicate empathetically to create high-performing, motivated teams and align with stakeholder expectations. Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will: Develop core empathy skills to connect deeply with team members and stakeholders.

Construction Scrum: How to Deliver Projects Easier, Better, and Faster is the first practical guide for construction professionals to implement the Scrum framework in the construction industry.

Design and construction industry practitioners collaborated to bring you Transforming Design and Construction: A Framework for Change, the first of LCI's Transforming Design and Construction series, to encourage discussion, learning, and experimentation around Lean processes. The short chapters focusses on various Lean topics. They are not designed as a "how-to" for Lean tools, but as a framework for learning and to guide you along your Lean journey.

IT! was born in a bare-bones warehouse floor work environment, where learning by doing developed the materials for flight. Controllers spanned diverse backgrounds: Philco tech reps, farm boys, Native Americans, and junior college grads who became self-made engineers. A free exchange of knowledge developed expertise among colleagues. Everyone brought unique viewpoints and skills which coalesced into IT! In relaying his long tenure at NASA, Kranz narrates the development of IT! His views on lessons learned through decades of Mission Control are valuable for any innovation-based organization.

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Are you ready to take your project management to the next level? Today's project managers are critical to the strategic growth of their organizations. Belinda Goodrich, an international project management expert, shares her greatest techniques in order to stand apart as a phenomenal, and kick ass, project manager!

Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. Yet the pace of change in our world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former vice chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. Imagine It Forward is an inspiring, fresh, candid, and deeply personal audiobook about how to grapple with the challenges to change we face every day. It is a different kind of narrative, a big-picture audiobook that combines Comstock’s personal story in leading change with vital lessons on overcoming the inevitable roadblocks.

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows listeners how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards, including increased adaptability, shorter delivery schedules, reduced development cost, increased quality, and higher transparency into delivery.

In the course of my more than 15 years of experience as an attorney, I’ve worked on billions of dollars’ worth of public construction projects, and I’ve seen them succeed and fail. The general lack of prior experience that many public officials have, when properly acknowledged, can be a great asset, rather than a significant detriment. How is that so? When you come into a project without the burden of prior assumptions based on previous project experience, you can reenvision what a successful project should be, and what your goals should be.

¿Alguna vez has escuchado comparaciones de los negocios con un juego de ajedrez? Si eres un líder en cualquier sector, sabes que los negocios de hoy se sienten más como un juego de póker caótico, uno en el que no puedes ver todas las cartas y estás seguro de que algunos oponentes tienen un as bajo la manga.

An Amazon #1 Bestseller in multiple categories — December 2024. Trump Unyielding: The Quest for America’s 47th Presidency is not just a biography, it’s a chronicle of resilience, leadership, and transformation. Donald J. Trump, now elected as the 47th President of the United States, embodies ambition and bold leadership, using his "Art of the Comeback" to reclaim the White House and redefine American politics. This compelling story follows Trump’s journey from his early days in Queens to his rise as the "King of Debt," turning a $9 billion deficit into a $10 billion empire. It ...

Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development, and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process, but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners, offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are driven to be successful.