As executives build and nurture their organization’s strategic agility in today’s turbulent, uncertain business environment, the ability to lead strategic change has become more critical than ever. The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second Edition will help project managers lead with confidence in temporary, ambiguous team structures that execute risk-laden work in an increasingly agile project environment. Like the first edition, this edition encourages readers to take ownership of their leadership agenda and become disciplined in the processes of building a framework of leadership skills. Readers are introduced to a new role: the service-based project leader. This role serves the entire project organization by creating a meaningful experience for team members, customers, and critical stakeholders. The book provides practical guidance to help you move from project manager to service-based project leader. Detailing a framework for developing and refining leadership skills, it explains how to build a leadership competency pyramid and then execute a self-directed plan for building leadership competencies. The leadership competency pyramid includes an intuitive model that will be helpful to project managers at any level. The book elaborates on the components of each layer of the pyramid and how each layer relates to the others. A chapter is dedicated to each layer of the pyramid, with supporting evidence for the necessity of each of these layers, as well as practical advice on how to build and practice these component layers.
Written by celebrated management consultant Terry Schmidt, this book fully covers the necessity of systems thinking and the logical framework approach to solve today’s challenging problems.
These four questions guide readers into fleshing out a simple, yet sophisticated, mental workbench called "the Logical Framework" - a Systems Thinking paradigm that lays out one's own project strategy in an easily accessible, interactive ...
The book describes what good project leadership looks like and explains how to make the transition using concrete tools and strategies.
At this stage it is also important that you challenge onetrack thinking about solutions. It is vital to explore alternatives if the real problem is to be solved. At the same time, throughout the scoping process the project leader is ...
This is the one guide you need to take ownership of any project, and let your business expertise translate to project success.
In additionto these earlywarning signs, project leadersalso haveto be aware of theperfect storm of project management. We believethatthe coming together of some basic“laws” of project management createssituations in which projects can ...
Project Leadership: Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization highlights the importance of these questions underlining the importance not only of the project team but on the culture of
Based on an unprecedented study of more than 600 projects in a variety of businesses and organizations around the globe, "Reinventing Project Management" provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects to achieve ...
Praise for Becoming a Strategic Leader "If you manage anything of importance—from a company to a functional area—read this book, and share it with your team.
Structured around the Three Domains model, it covers all the fundamental project management concepts, whilst guiding thereader through the organizational challenges of enabling positive change.Through the lens of strategic leadership, this ...