Don't Park Your Brain Outside: A Practical Guide to Improving Shareholder Value with Smart Management - Hardcover

Hartman, Francis Thomas

 
9781880410486: Don't Park Your Brain Outside: A Practical Guide to Improving Shareholder Value with Smart Management
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1880410486 ISBN 13: 9781880410486
Publisher: Project Management Institute Communications Office,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

This book offers an approach to project management that deals with many of the day-to-day concerns of the practitioner in delivering difficult and volatile projects. It brings together the processes and techniques that many exceptional managers use and that researchers are trying to understand.

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Review

"In his refreshingly provocative book, Hartman presents strategies that meld both the hard and the soft approaches to project management as they relate to managing change and people ... [he] makes many contributions to the project management body of knowledge ... and provides a framework that is scalable not just to different projects, programs, or businesses, but also to different practitioners and customers at the project and executive level."

Synopsis

Presents a set of principles for project management and details their theory and application, balancing tricks of the trade with research and case studies. Themes include communication with sponsors and clients, managing expectations of stakeholders, and flexibility. Material is written in an informal style, punctuated by success stories, b&w carto

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Publisher
Project Management Institute Communications Office,U.S.
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1880410486
ISBN 13 
9781880410486
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
407