Working Up to Project Management: How Crushing Rocks at the Asphalt Plant Prepared Me for Government Work - Softcover

Phillips, Dwayne

9780932633668: Working Up to Project Management: How Crushing Rocks at the Asphalt Plant Prepared Me for Government Work

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ISBN 10: 0932633668 ISBN 13: 9780932633668

Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S., 2008

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To do a job well, you need the right tools for the job, as any skilled tradesperson will tell you.

Project managers, however, do not have a standard set of tools. In fact, sometimes they have to make their own.

In Working Up to Project Management, Dwayne Phillips describes the tools and techniques he first encountered as a laborer at an asphalt plant, working summers during college. These lessons guided him as he went on to a successful career as a systems developer, IT manager, consultant, and author.

From a unique synthesis of two work environments -- an asphalt plant and a white-collar office building -- Phillips helps managers develop tools from their environments and construct a management approach that works.

Topics include:

* matching tools to environments
* learning through experience
* working with and through people
* chance -- and risk -- at work
* and much more

Insights From the Book:

In this book, I attempt to pass along life-lessons I learned from working at the asphalt plant. If you remember little else from this book, I hope it will be the following chief lessons:

1. I can learn something anywhere.
2. I can learn something from anyone.

I hope these remain true for me, for the remainder of my life, and I hope you can apply them as well.

--from the Introduction