Project Management Leadership

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

You have probably always dreamed about managing large projects for awesome companies or organizations. You have most likely dreamed about using a way to manage projects more effectively and more efficiently. The message I want to share with you can help you get closer to your dream. Maybe, you've never managed a project before. Perhaps, you've overseen projects previously, but without any success or very little success. I know you want to change things for the better, but the question might be:how? There’s a way to handle projects with more flow.

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.

The Strategy Implementation Gap is a guide for executives on how to have a sustainable approach to the right people doing the right things in the right way to achieve the right results.

If you are a busy person who does a lot of note taking for either professional or personal reasons, then the Microsoft OneNote software would be perfect for you. This free, extremely easy to use, and quite comprehensible note-taking program is much more than merely a note-taking service. It actually contains a number of unique and extremely useful features that you will not find with any other word processor.

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 percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat? This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one.

As the audiences we market to become ever more digital, agile frameworks are emerging as the best and only way to manage marketing. This book is a signpost showing the way toward the agile future of marketing operations, explaining how every role, from social media intern up to chief marketing officer, can work in unison, responding to the market’s demanding challenges without losing focus on the big picture.

The Project Manager: Life Is a Project is a business fable designed to teach listeners how to apply simple project management techniques to their daily lives to become more organized and reach their goals.

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.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Si usted desea descubrir cómo lograr más haciendo y gastando menos, entonces siga leyendo...Muchos empresarios están utilizando la filosofía Lean Startup para racionalizar sus prácticas comerciales y realizar lanzamientos de mercado efectivos sin gastar mucho capital. Usted puede ser uno de ellos. Este audiolibro le enseñará todo lo que usted necesita saber sobre Lean Startups, su filosofía específica y cómo destaca en los negocios tradicionales.

A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The audiobook provides a best-practice checklist for eight core areas: strategy setting, technology alignment, business renovation, project management, communications renewal, employee engagement, staff transformation, and organizational design.

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.

Communications Skills for Project Managers provides practical advice and strategies for ensuring success, even in the face of shifting organizational priorities, constantly evolving expectations, and leadership turnover. This important guide gives listeners the skills they need to keep everyone in the loop.

Companies small and large are initiating AI projects, investing vast sums of money on software, developers, and data scientists. Too often, these AI projects focus on technology at the expense of actionable or tangible business results, resulting in scattershot results and wasted investment. Succeeding with AI sets out a blueprint for AI projects to ensure they are predictable, successful, and profitable. It’s filled with practical techniques for running data science programs that are cost effective and focused on the right business goals.

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.

In The Trifecta of Trust, psychometrics and leadership expert Joseph R. Folkman has collected a mountain of compelling data to make the irrefutable case for the value of trust in leadership. Folkman’s life mission has been to provide accurate assessments for leaders to help them understand their effectiveness, impact on outcomes, and specific insights on what they can do to improve. Now you can discover the tools for increasing trust based on quantifiable results and have greater impact and effectiveness as a leader.

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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.