9781472429964 - The Single-Minded Project: Ensuring the Pace of Progress di Price, Martin (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Hardcover, xxxii + 186 pages, NOT ex-library. A fine copy, close to "like-new": clean and bright throughout with unmarked text and firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Published without a dust jacket. --- Contents: Introduction [Pace and Reliability; Players' Behaviour and Collective Responses; A Common Methodology: Not Enough; Root Causes of Triumph and Failure; Terms Used in this Book; Professional Pointers]; Part I Getting and Staying in Shape: 1 A Project's Collaboration [Introduction; Single-Minded Project; Alliancing at the Andrew Field; Apple Inc. and a Different Formula for Collaboration; Collaboration Arises Locally; Shaping a Project; Professional Pointers] 2 A Project's Able People [Introduction; Value of Professional Experience; An Ability to Handle Complexity; Loss of Prime Contractor Expertise; Career Risks for Professionals; 'Project Team': An Abiding Myth; A Project Regime; Adversity and Our Resilience to It; Stay Cool; Adversity Can Equip Us for More; Developing Proficient Players; Project Players: The 'Venture Capital'; Professional Pointers] 3 A Project's Strength [Introduction; Resolute Leadership; Causes of Project Failure; Contrasting Project Work with Line-of-Business Work; Showing the Way through Leadership; Binary Leadership; Professional Pointers]; Part II Conducting the Work: 4 A Project's Connections [Introduction; Players Working in Concert; Leveraging from Diversity; Engagement and Decision-Making; Dialogue and Its Diversity; Reaching for a Dialogue beyond Differences; Collective Intention; Behaviour; Individual-Centric or Group-Centric Performance Improvement; Patterns of Decision-Making in a Project Regime; Connection through Conversation; Courtesy Has a Purpose; Diligence of Dialogue; Dynamic Linking or Connected Autonomy; Connecting through Social Engagement; Social Engagement and Engagement Goals; Engagement Capability: Diagnostic Tool EIQ6; Connection and Community; Stepping towards Community Maturity; Professional Pointers] 5 The Project's Rigour [Introduction; Right Things, Done Right; Deploying Processes; Developing the Script; A Process Iterated; Professional Pointers] 6 A Project's Pace of Progress [Introduction; Pace Perspective: What Is It?; An Overriding Principle of Project Management; Managing the Pace of Progress; Project Schemas and the Conduct of Project Players ; Roots of the Pace Perspective; Achieving Collective Intention; Social Experience, Behaviour and Leadership; Professional Pointers]; Part III Assuring Success: 7 A Project's Persistence [Introduction; A Crucial Factor Difficult to Define; Persistence of a Single-Minded Project Management Regime; Persistence and the 'Paradigm Paradox'; A Failure of Professional Persistence; Sustaining Impetus and Resolve; Functional Stupidity: A Denial of Professional Persistence; Persistence in Overcoming Complexity and Disorder; Professional Pointers] 8 Project's Adaptation [Introduction; A Regime's Adaptation to Circumstances; Local Issues Can Be the Most Stubborn; Projects Are What We Find Them to Be; Redirection and the Tacking Cycle; A Regime's Adaptation Goals; Myth of Automated Collaboration; Professional Pointers] 9 Project's Maturity [Introduction; Regime Maturity Goals; Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation; Disruptive and Sustaining Innovation; Diversity and Decision-Making; An Occupation Elevating to a Profession; Aspiring to Professional Status; Value Zone of an Enterprise; A Triumph of Collaboration: Rocky Flats; Professional Pointers].

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