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Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success focuses on best project behaviors, by answering more than 700 insightful, personal, and sometimes sensitive questions on a broad range of topics from leadership, communication, and culture, to accountability, ethics, and conflict resolution. Following on the heels of Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, this book offers more of the no-nonsense advice that has helped countless leaders and projects. This book is for those who aspire to become consistently effective leaders, project members, or employees and therefore become more valuable to their projects and organizations.
Learn the Best Practices That Make the Difference Between Troubled Projects and Consistently Successful Projects There's no better way to learn the nuts and bolts of a profession than by having a mentor at your side. But most project managers and leaders don't have that advantage — and that's why Neal Whitten wrote this book. Having Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects on hand is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal shows you how to avoid a painful learning curve with a set of best practices for leading consistently successful projects. In this book, Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn an...
Learn the Best Practices That Make the Difference Between Troubled Projects and Consistently Successful Projects There's no better way to learn the nuts and bolts of a profession than by having a mentor at your side. But most project managers and leaders don't have that advantage — and that's why Neal Whitten wrote this book. Having Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects on hand is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal shows you how to avoid a painful learning curve with a set of best practices for leading consistently successful projects. In this book, Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn an...
This warm, readable, and ultimately inspiring book for all ages shares with the world the treasured wisdom of our elders. From many hours of interviews, veteran author Neal Whitten draws insights from the life experiences of 25 older Americans. Representing different ethnic, economic, religious, and social groups, the interviewees reflect on their diverse lives and express their unique perspectives. They share with us the wisdom they have developed over the years and offer their advice for a life well lived. The thoughts shared in this 480-page book cover a wide range of topics, including philosophies in living life, relationships, family and parenting, spirituality, education, health, finan...
This thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling original is short on theory and long on practical, hands-on advice. Packed with realistic scenarios and case studies, this book shows readers how to avoid most of the problems encountered in the software development process.
This book is about project success and the secret to achieving this success, effective project leadership. Filled with samples, templates, and guidelines, it covers the five principles of effective project leadership: building vision, nurturing collaboration, promoting performance, cultivating learning, and ensuring results. Using nontechnical language, this practical guide explains how to integrate these principles into daily work to help you effectively set up, manage, and align your projects for success.
This book is for leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and all employees who desire to take their performance to a higher level. Do you have the Power Skills needed to achieve the level of success you desire? Power Skills are a top asset in today’s ever-changing workplace. This book reveals Power Skills that promote accountability and how to think and act effectively for success. But this book does far more. It describes Power Skills that, if taught and nurtured to all employees of an organization or company, will result in the organization continuously and holistically evolving. Adopting these Power Skills can lead to exceptional performance both for individuals and for their organizations. Power Skills discussed include: break the rules occasionally, never avoid necessary confrontation, think for yourself, manage daily to your top three priorities, routinely practice boldness and courage, decide who you chose to be, be a good actor, and so much more. I welcome you to come along for a potentially transformative and game-changing ride in your personal pursuit of the adventure called life.
These "Pull no Punches" strategies act as a fired manual to develop yourself, others and your organization to its full potential. This book is based on "real world" experience and results, without fluff on theory.
Companies lose vast amounts of money every year on failed and mismanaged projects. Delivering Project Excellence with the Statement of Work explains how to avoid the many pitfalls and deliver successful projects on time and within budget, using a highly successful tool - the Statement of Work (SOW) - to establish the baseline, develop pricing and measure changes and profitability.This fully updated second edition, which includes a new chapter on the use and application of the statement of objectives, presents the latest techniques to help you and your team to ensure that your projects meet specified scope and quality and to control risks by clearly defining roles and responsibilities.In addition to new advice on drafting a quality SOW and discussion of the legal considerations relating to the SOW, author Michael Martin provides a wealth of new examples of SOWs and case studies from a variety of projects and business environments to give you the insight you need to deliver excellence on your project.
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