Project Management Leadership

Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate high flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail.

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.

In this book, we aim to simplify program management by providing a comprehensive guide that breaks down its core concepts and practices. We will illustrate how program management can be implemented in various industries and sectors, including construction, engineering, IT, and government. Our goal is to equip listeners with the knowledge and tools to understand program management. Whether you are new to program management or seeking to deepen your understanding, this book will provide you with a practical and accessible roadmap to demystify program management and help you succeed in your role.

Master the skills, practical how-to techniques and tips in The Extraordinary Power of Project Relationships. Your business life will be much more successful and so will your personal life. Invest in reading, learning and appropriately applying these techniques. Use the audiobook as a handy reference as you perform project work in the office as well as your personal life. Reward yourself. Your relationships will get better. You deserve to make their life as good as it can be!

What's an accidental agile project manager, you ask? Anyone who suddenly and unexpectedly finds themselves responsible for an agile project. Maybe, the home remodel project turned out to be a little more complicated and complex than you expected. Or, your manager gave you a project management book and put you in charge of an important work project. It's not uncommon to see team leaders doing project managers' work, and they may not even be aware.

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.

Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What’s going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the “quick-fix” hype of agile theory and explains a recurring transformational pattern that unpacks what holds organizations back.

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth.

The United States is abundantly rich in adults with know-how. By connecting mentors - educated adults with expertise and knowledge - with mentees - teens and young adults who lack motivation, experience, and role models in their lives - we can begin to close this gap dramatically. We can prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow by adding real-world, project-based experience to their education.

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.

Do you want to become a better project manager? What skills can you improve to do your job more efficiently? How can you implement an agile methodology to improve your team’s productivity? What mistakes should you avoid while managing your team or a project? Do you want to discover the answers to these questions? If yes, this is the perfect book for you! You need better and newer project management methodologies to ensure this doesn’t happen. One such management methodology is Agile.

"Maximizing Profits with Chatbots: A Small Business Guide to Setup and Benefits" is an essential resource for small business owners who want to harness the power of chatbots to improve customer service, streamline operations, and drive profits. This guide covers everything from understanding the different types of chatbots to setting up and optimizing them for your business. Learn how chatbots can provide 24/7 support, personalize customer interactions, and automate lead generation, all while saving costs and boosting efficiency.

The ability to manage and recover from stress is crucial for resiliency and cognitive, medical, mental, and social health. Burnout is the enemy of productivity, creativity, and overall business success. Until recently, it was difficult for leaders to get reliable data on people's ability to perform at their best and understand levels of burnout within the business. The Heart(beat) of Business presents the science behind peak performance and how stress and burnout destroy people's health and devastate business outcomes.

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.

In this useful pocket guide, experienced Dojo coach Jess Brock delivers practical advice based on her extensive experience in real-world dojos. Combining proven tactics and a comprehensive tool kit, along with actionable tips needed to drive engagement in both physical and virtual dojo spaces, this pocket guide will equip you to maximize the impact of your dojo.

The need for precise, actionable, real-time Business Intelligence (BI) lies at the heart of the role of Big Data in modern commerce. In turn, the art of Data Science lies at the nexus of Big Data and BI, providing the essential methods by which BI can be extracted from Big Data's great black mass of constantly flowing, unstructured information. This combination has a created a new profession: an elite and specialized class of highly-compensated professionals specially skilled at data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.

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.

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, the ability to effectively manage projects has become a crucial skill for professionals across various industries. Whether you're leading a team, overseeing complex initiatives, or striving to deliver exceptional results, understanding and applying the principles of project management can make all the difference between success and failure.

In his new book The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management,serial entrepreneur - and finalist for the laziest/most distracted person on the planet - Michael Clarke shares how to get more done (in less time) and achieve that relaxed, fulfilled (and insanely successful) entrepreneurial life you've always dreamed of. So if you'd like to finally master this thing called “Time Management” - and you've tried all the seminars and mantras but nothing seems to have stuck - then give The Busy Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management a try TODAY!