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Download or read book EMPOWERED written by Marty Cagan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"--
Book Synopsis Be a Project Motivator by : Ruth Pearce
Download or read book Be a Project Motivator written by Ruth Pearce and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will soon become a widely accepted standard on how to deliver a successful project on time and on budget in any industry.” —John Garahan, Vice President, Global Delivery, Broadridge Financial Solutions Successful project managers must engage and motivate others to achieve complex goals. Ruth Pearce shows how behavior, language, and attitudes affect engagement and how leveraging character strengths can help improve relationships, increase innovation, and build higher-functioning teams. This focus on character strengths—such as bravery, curiosity, fairness, gratitude, and humor—can help project managers recognize and cultivate the things that are best in themselves and others. Many project managers do not have the authority to direct the activities of people on their teams—they can only influence them. The most influential people succeed by focusing less on themselves and their message and more on others. They pay attention, they are brave, they are vulnerable, they are curious, and they look for and acknowledge the things that are important about and to the other person. And they model the behavior that they want to see. This book tells you how. Pearce provides tools and frameworks for building a culture of appreciation, understanding character strengths, mapping leadership qualities, understanding learning styles, identifying team roles, and executing plans. She also explores the factors that contribute to conflict and tensions, as well as strategies for getting through difficult times. We see these tools and techniques in action through “Maggie,” a project manager who is struggling to motivate her team. Each chapter concludes with reflective questions to make the ideas stick and with key strategies for success.
Book Synopsis Empowered Project Manager by : Louise Anne Maurice
Download or read book Empowered Project Manager written by Louise Anne Maurice and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul started with the organization straight out of college. He has been diligent throughout his career and learned on-the-job skills to excel at whatever was thrown at him. Paul's career dreams are now coming true and he is finally being recognized for all his hard work.Paul has been given a 6 month contract position with a considerable increase in pay and the new unofficial title of "Project Manager". If he proves himself, his pay will increase even more as he will be "First Consideration" for all new projects. He is also in charge of leading a diverse team of 10 highly skilled individuals. He is told that this team will help him achieve his mandate to "get the project done on-time and within budget". Thrilled with the new title, Paul goes home that night and shares the great news with his wife and 3 kids that he is now a Project Manager. They are more excited about the pay raise and are already spending the extra money. The next day Paul shares the news with colleagues who "laugh" and then share with him that the 10 team members have been labeled as the "difficult people to manage". They stressed-out the last Project Manager and drove him to quit. Paul is a little nervous because he has no formal Soft Skills or People Management Training and what will his wife and kids think if he fails? Can you relate to Paul? He has learned the hard skills necessary to complete projects but not the soft skills necessary to lead a team. Whether you are like Paul and have been thrown into the unknown and given the unofficial title of "Project Manager" or you are a new graduate, you are in the right place because this Project Management Soft Skills Training Book is for you. REALITY - Sometimes you have no control over selecting your team. As a Project Manager, you usually walk into the unknown. You feel confident with the hard skills of Project Management but not the soft skills required for success. I have helped many Project Managers, just like you, feel competent working with a diverse, and sometimes unknown, Team. With me as your guide, you will experience less stress and more confidence dealing with difficult team members. I developed this interactive book to be delivered as a high-level training seminar with hands-on activities, videos and exercises in each chapter. By the end of this soft skills training book, you'll know how to implement proven techniques for dealing with the 10 most difficult people to manage. You learn precisely: How to deal with lazy team members who procrastinate. How to deal with narcissists who create drama. How to deal with disengaged employees who are uncommitted to the Project mission. How to deal with negative people who have a bad attitude. How to deal with people who lie and make excuses about why they can't do the work you are asking them to do. How to deal with gossip in the workplace that divides the team. How to deal with workplace bullying and harassment. How to deal with difficult people who complain about everything that you do or don't do. How to deal with moody people who create tension among the team. How to deal with workplace conflict and drama. I show you the mistakes to avoid in dealing with the 10 most difficult team members and then what you need to do instead. The usual approach to developing a motivated productive team doesn't work with the difficult team members. In this book I give you my 11 part EMPOWERMENT SOFT SKILLS STRATEGIES so you can be proactive in your approach to dealing with difficult people before they delay your project and stress you out. I then give you activities plus guide you on how to apply these strategies to develop an engage and productive team. Remember, it doesn't matter if you are an unofficial Project Manager who has been thrown into the unknown, a new Project Manager or a seasoned Project Manager who can't handle the new crop of difficult people, you need this book today!
Download or read book Empowered written by Josh Bernoff and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the new normal. Now all of your employees are Twittering away and friending clients on Facebook. Not to mention customers--who feel obligated to update your Wikipedia entry with product complaints. In this new world, dealing with empowered employees and customers --Insurgents -- is only going to get more challenging. Employees are using this technology in the workplace and customers are using it in the marketplace, and neither obey the rules you set up. This chaos is your future as a manager. You could try to shut it down and shut it off. Or you can harness it and reap the business benefits. According to Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler of Forrester Research (the organization that brought you Groundswell), your defense against insurgents is to enable them. At its heart, this is a book about how to scale the management of insurgency, both the innovation of insurgent employees and the energy of insurgent customers. The key is a process Forrester calls E Triple S, for the four elements of managing insurgents effectively: empowering, selecting, scaling, and socializing. While it's based in current trends, the core concept of Managing Insurgents -- that the next management and innovation challenge is harnessing individuals empowered by mobile, social, and connected technology -- is a new idea. In the wake of Groundswell, dozens of social-technology-for-business books cropped up. And there are plenty of books on improving your customer service. But there's no serious business book about management, marketing, and innovation in the throes of this trend. When Insurgency hits, it will be perceived not just as a sequel to Groundswell but as the start of a new management philosophy.
Book Synopsis Ten Steps to Empower by : Diane Tracy
Download or read book Ten Steps to Empower written by Diane Tracy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to get power you have to give it away--one of the great yet seldom reconized paradoxes of the business world. As Diane Tracy demonstrates in her new book, when managers empower their employees, they gain real power for themselves. Through her Ten Principles for Empowering People, she shows: Why a clear definition of responsibility is the foundation of power How knowledge and information are critical to a person's power How people are empowered when they receive honest feedback on a consistent basis The paradoxical effect of giving workers permission to fail--and thereby sufficienct latitude to succeed Why respect for the individuals is the key to releasing one's personal power Particularly in turbulent times, empowerment is the key to maximizing productivity, maintaining employee morale, and meeting the long-term objectives of the company. Empowerment is the only way to create a win-win situation for the employee and the manager, the company and the customer.
Book Synopsis The Power of Project Leadership by : Susanne Madsen
Download or read book The Power of Project Leadership written by Susanne Madsen and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's 'more for less' culture, the expectations of project management and delivery are no longer limited to budgets, schedules and quality. For projects to make an impact and have lasting value, the project manager must be able to strategize, innovate, motivate, empower and collaborate - in other words, project managers must learn how to lead. The Power of Project Leadership helps you transform into an effective project leader by shifting your managerial mindset into one of inspiration, motivation and influence. The book describes what good project leadership looks like and explains how to make the transition using concrete tools and strategies. With underlying theories to help the reader understand how teams and individuals are motivated, it ensures that project managers lead with vision, continuously improve and innovate, work with intent, empower the team, get closer to stakeholders, remain authentic and establish a solid foundation for their projects. The book has a practical and engaging approach and draws on over 25 interviews with leading experts who have made the transition from project managers to project leaders. These experts come from a variety of sectors and companies; including Expedia, British Gas, Standard Bank, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Liquid Planner, and the UK Government.
Book Synopsis Empowering Change: A Project Manager's Perspective on the Disability Sector in Ireland by : Sean O'Connor
Download or read book Empowering Change: A Project Manager's Perspective on the Disability Sector in Ireland written by Sean O'Connor and published by Sean O'Connor. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disability sector in Ireland plays a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and inclusion of individuals with disabilities. As a project manager in the National Clinical Programme for People with Disability, my perspective offered a unique insight into the challenges, opportunities, and transformative initiatives within the sector. In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the disability sector holds a significant place, with its focus on empowering individuals with disabilities to lead fulfilling and inclusive lives. As a project manager in the National Clinical Programme for People with Disability, I was at the forefront of driving positive change in this crucial sector in Ireland. This book serves as a comprehensive and in-depth guide, offering a unique perspective from my role within the Programme. It delves into the challenges faced, the remarkable achievements realized, and the profound impact witnessed as we work towards transforming the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Book Synopsis Project Management Leadership by : Rory Burke
Download or read book Project Management Leadership written by Rory Burke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Management Leadership is a comprehensive guide to the human factors involved in Project Management, in particular the leadership skills required to ensure successful implementation of current best practice. It provides the latest insights on team building, motivation, collaboration, and networking skills, and the way these can be harnessed to manage a successful project. Exercises and worked examples are provided throughout.
Book Synopsis Empowering Project Teams by : Marco Sampietro
Download or read book Empowering Project Teams written by Marco Sampietro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although project team members play crucial roles in projects, they often do not possess the required mastery of project management methodologies. As a result, dialog between project managers and team members is not as effective as it can be and can quickly become a source of stress and tension.Empowering Project Teams: Using Project Followership to
Book Synopsis Balanced Leadership by : Ralf Müller
Download or read book Balanced Leadership written by Ralf Müller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory of balanced leadership in projects Leadership is not static. Instead, authority in projects shifts dynamically between project managers, individual team members, and sub-teams, depending on the situation. Leadership may be exercised through a vertical, horizontal, shared, or distributed leadership approach. However, balanced leadership ensures the best suitable approach is used in any given situation. Based on an award-winning global program of research studies, Balanced Leadership is a thorough investigation of balanced leadership in projects. Ralf Müller, Nathalie Drouin, and Shankar Sankaran present a project-specific leadership approach as well as a theory of balanced leadership, and the situations in which different strategies are required. They also outline the five building blocks that enable balanced leadership: nomination of team members, identification of potential leaders, selection and empowerment of leaders, empowered leadership and its governance, and leadership transition. The book explains the coordination of these building blocks through the socio-cognitive space shared by project manager and team. Using real-life case studies and clear examples, this book offers a new way of considering and utilizing dynamic leadership in project settings.
Book Synopsis The Social Project Manager by : Mr Peter Taylor
Download or read book The Social Project Manager written by Mr Peter Taylor and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Project Manager describes a non-traditional way of organising projects, managing project performance and progress. The aim being to deliver, at the enterprise level, a common goal for the business; one that harnesses the performance advantages of a collaborative community. Social elements help mitigate the constraints associated with the control aspect of project management, which is essential for governance. Team collaboration, problem solving and engagement in projects will never come from technology alone but require careful management. Peter Taylor draws on research from projects and the worlds of social media and communication to paint a vivid and practical guide to the why and how of social project management. There is no simple template for you to follow; instead he provides an explanation of the benefits, the tools and the constraints so that readers can navigate through to an approach that is sensitive to the culture of their organization and the nature of the projects that they run. Alongside the author’s ideas, the text features advice and case examples from many of the leading technology providers. The Social Project Manager is a very-readable and down-to-earth guide from one of the most highly-regarded practitioners and commentators on the world of project management.
Book Synopsis The New Project Management by : J. Davidson Frame
Download or read book The New Project Management written by J. Davidson Frame and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on more than twenty-five years experience consulting andtraining on project management in companies such as NCR, AT&T,and 3M, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands what he introduced inthe first edition of The New Project Management in 1994-a set ofcore competencies for managerial success in a corporate climatewhere downsizing, outsourcing, and employee empowerment are a wayof life. This new edition focuses on the hottest areas in projectmanagement today-augmenting and expanding the existing coverage ofrisk management and estimating, and including three all-newchapters on critical issues that did not even exist in 1994.
Book Synopsis Project Managers’ Leadership Styles in Information Technology Sector of Pakistan by : Muhammad Khalique Ahmad
Download or read book Project Managers’ Leadership Styles in Information Technology Sector of Pakistan written by Muhammad Khalique Ahmad and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these competitive and turbulent times, project organisations face severe challenges. Despite the advancement of project management tools and techniques, the rate of project failure exceeds that of success. Regardless of calls for further empirical studies on the role of project leadership, researchers struggle to find the best leadership styles for project success. New digital transformation phenomena have forced organisations to offer more autonomy and decision-making authority to those at lower hierarchical levels. In this scenario, top management support plays a facilitator role. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no past studies have examined these critical project success factors simultaneously in a project environment. Embedded in the theories of contingency, goal-setting, and social cognition, this study raised the hypothesis that project managers’ leadership styles impact project success via the mediation of goal clarity, empowerment, and self-leadership as well as the moderation of top management support. Data was collected by administering a cross-sectional survey to 289 project organisations in the IT sector. The results demonstrated that project managers' transactional leadership style does not impact project success because goal clarity has an insignificant association with project success. However, the transformational leadership style showed a positive impact on project success because empowerment significantly and positively relates to project success. The project manager's empowering leadership style was also found to positively influence project success through followers’ self-leadership. Additionally, top management support revealed a significant moderating role by strengthening the relationship between empowerment and project success. This study successfully fills theoretical gaps by introducing a novel moderated mediation model. The findings also offer useful insights to practitioners by revealing that project managers’ transformational leadership and empowering leadership are needed to enhance and encourage employee empowerment and self-leadership, and ultimately secure project success.
Book Synopsis The Social Project Manager by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book The Social Project Manager written by Peter Taylor and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Project Manager describes a non-traditional way of organising projects, managing project performance and progress. The aim being to deliver, at the enterprise level, a common goal for the business; one that harnesses the performance advantages of a collaborative community. Social elements help mitigate the constraints associated with the control aspect of project management, which is essential for governance. Team collaboration, problem solving and engagement in projects will never come from technology alone but require careful management. Peter Taylor draws on research from projects and the worlds of social media and communication to paint a vivid and practical guide to the why and how of social project management. There is no simple template for you to follow; instead he provides an explanation of the benefits, the tools and the constraints so that readers can navigate through to an approach that is sensitive to the culture of their organization and the nature of the projects that they run. Alongside the author’s ideas, the text features advice and case examples from many of the leading technology providers. The Social Project Manager is a very-readable and down-to-earth guide from one of the most highly-regarded practitioners and commentators on the world of project management.
Book Synopsis Advanced Project Management by : Harold Kerzner
Download or read book Advanced Project Management written by Harold Kerzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITATIVE STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING PROJECT MANAGEMENT Senior managers at world-class corporations open their office doors to discuss case studies that demonstrate their thought processes and actual strategies that helped them lead their companies to excellence in project management in less than six years! Following the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), industry leaders address: Project risk management Project portfolio management The Project Office Project management multinational cultures Integrated project teams and virtual project teams
Book Synopsis Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment by : Krishna Murari
Download or read book Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment written by Krishna Murari and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on exploratory research carried out by the author in Indian Business Organizations. It gives insights to Employee Empowerment and five important leadership styles namely Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Servant Leadership, Abusive Leadership and Ethical leadership and their characteristics based on the researches carried out by the scholars and gurus in these fields. Transformational leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership style enhance the employee empowerment while transactional leadership has no role in employee empowerment. The book highlight that abusive leadership style is used by many leaders and has negative impact on employee empowerment. Employee empowerment results in Quality of Work Life, Commitment and Job Involvement in employees which enhance competitiveness of the organization. It also emphasizes the important of personal characteristics of employees required to make them empowered. Some employees like to be empowered while some others do not. This book provides guidance to new researchers in the field of leadership and employee empowerment to carry out further researches in these fields in various countries and cultures. The book will guide the managers to identify and enhance the required characteristics to be a successful leader. This book will be a new milestone in the above fields of research and beacon to the practicing managers to navigate them to higher success.
Book Synopsis Project Management in Construction by : Anthony Walker
Download or read book Project Management in Construction written by Anthony Walker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with all previous editions of Project Management in Construction, this sixth edition focuses on systems theory as the approach suitable for organizing and managing people skilled in the design and completion of construction projects. It discusses the many competing paradigms and alternative perspectives available, for example in relation to differentiation and integration, as well as the emerging study of temporary organizations and its relevance to construction project management. Whilst encompassing the need to develop further theoretical aspects of construction project organization theory, this edition has also enhanced the application of organization studies to practical issues of construction project management. More emphasis has been placed on the added complexity of construction project management by issues surrounding clients and stakeholders, and the control and empowerment of project participants. Additional focus has been placed on sustainability issues as they impinge on construction project management, on reworked views on supply chain management and on developments in partnering, together with clarification of the shifting terms and definitions relating to construction organization structures and their uses.
