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

Dwayne Phillips

ISBN 10: 0932633668 / ISBN 13: 9780932633668

Published by Dorset House, 2008

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Title: Working Up to Project Management: How ...

Publisher: Dorset House

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

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Synopsis:

Lessons Learned on the Road from Plant to Pentagon

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! 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