Project Leadership

Project management is a high-stakes game, and failure is rarely an option. Are you ready to make your projects indestructible from pitfalls?Crash Proof Your Project is a highly engaging, highly effective tool book for project management. It offers simple, easy-to-apply solutions to safeguard projects from potential failures or "crashes." It aims to help managers and stakeholders improve communication, strengthen relationships, and drive better performance.

Welcome to the first edition of The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mindset in Project Management. This guide offers a comprehensive roadmap for project managers to cultivate an equitable team environment. It focuses on eliminating barriers to opportunities and creating an inclusive space where every team member feels welcomed, valued, respected, and fully engaged.

Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach breaks down agile in a way that makes it easy to understand and practical to follow. As one of agile's leading practitioners, Mike Griffiths takes complex concepts and not only simplifies them but makes the listening fun and easily relatable. Whether you're new to agile or just looking for an essential desk reference, Agile Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Using an Agile Approach is the perfect introduction to all things agile.

RE:Think Innovation makes coming up with great ideas everybody’s business. People think innovation isn’t sustainable, so they make it much harder than it has to be. Experts portray it as confusing and complicated, so they can charge big fees. Executives make it intimidating and complex, so they appear smarter and important. Traditional innovators imply you need a special degree or training to know how to do it right. RE:Think Innovation answers the question of how to tie individual competence with innovation techniques to direct corporate outcomes.

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

Are you an aspiring project or product manager or a tech enthusiast with little to no technical background in AI, but interested in harnessing the power of AI for your company's success? The Roadmap to AI Mastery: A Guide to Building and Scaling Projects is the perfect starting point for you.

Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs. Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.

Are you looking for a proven method that allows your company to achieve continuous improvement, maximize production, and excel in management and leadership? How is a winning startup born? How does it grow and innovate? If you want to start a startup, you need to identify a gap in the market and fill it effectively using time and resources, track and optimize data through market analysis to capture consumer demand, and above all, manage continuous innovation.

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on how to achieve ambitious goals on time. In this book, he applies the wisdom he has gained from dealing with large, complex organisations and elite athletes to help anyone tackle their most challenging goals. Drawing on the stories of historic visionaries and modern heroes - from Galileo to Rosa Parks, Harold Macmillan to Paula Radcliffe - Barber uses personal anecdote and proven strategy to map the route to success and navigate the difficulties that arise along the way.

If you want to achieve success in project management, then pay attention...Some projects were always bound to fail. However, that is just a tiny minority. Most projects fail at least partly because of poor project management. This audiobook aims to demystify project management and show you two different approaches that have a big following: Agile/Scrum, a very free form methodology that is good for services and software, and Lean Six Sigma, which is more data-driven and particularly useful for high-volume businesses from call centers to manufacturing.

This value-dense guidebook features actionable principles extracted from over 40 renowned servant leadership experts and practitioners, including prominent business executives, bestselling authors, and respected spiritual leaders. These and the proven easy-to-follow techniques and exercises are the reason why more and more people who peruse this book are becoming the charismatic and thoughtful leaders that lead the charge in their organization. Will you be one of them?

A project manager can achieve a lot - but a project leader with their team shoot goals and create real values.This audiobook will reveal nine leadership areas of a successful CEO and project manager; how to turn conflicts to your advantage; six bulletproof tips to solve complex problems; steps to build your performing team; and more. I believe that your deep desire is to become a project leader. If you agree with me then you should listen to this audiobook!

LEADERSHIP is about RESULTS. Time is your most valuable resource, then money. Time spent without FOCUS (strategy) leaves nowhere. Time spent in a focused deliberate manner can make you Millions of $s and prevent you from wasting resources without getting results. You will get thousands of times of what you spend here in return in your first year if you follow this simple self paced process. LEADERS both new and seasoned have benefited greatly from structuring their direction with this clear and practical process. This is not a boring book, it is a direct to the point (what, why and how) ...

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

In understanding methodologies and agile project management, we look at the different techniques in which you can successfully develop management skills. As you know, it is quite important to adopt a multifaceted approach when it comes to management, to get your job done in a facile manner.

Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility leads to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to bridge the gap and engage the upper ranks. By thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress, project managers win the support they need - especially critical when problems arise.

Lots of entrepreneurs are using the lean startup philosophy to streamline their business practices and make effective market launches without using up a lot of capital. You can be one of them. This audiobook is going to teach you everything you need to know about lean startups, its specific philosophy, and how it edges out traditional businesses. If you want an amazing startup from day one, this comprehensive guide will start at the drawing board and accompany you as you launch your business and develop quality products tailored to the market.

This guide shows listeners how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.

The Project: Thinking, Leadership, Planning, Performance, and Review is a guide to project development. Included are a fair number of concepts both for initiating a project and seeing it through to a meaningful conclusion. Things are made of parts, if you understand the parts you understand the thing. You may very well pick up a few ideas from this book about thinking. Have you ever taken a new job but retained the values and beliefs of the old job? After a time, you were startled to discover a significantly different perspective was required. But what if you had no chance to adapt? What if...

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.