Project Leadership Challenges

Project Leadership Challenges
Author: Wenche Aarseth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016
Genre: Project management
ISBN: 9788245021301

Project Leadership Challenges concentrates on leadership in projects, in particular project managers and their leadership responsibilities. Project leadership concerns how the project manager creates direction, progress, and cooperation to ensure that the organization does the best possible job in achieving the project's goals. With both a business and a global perspective, the authors present new research on challenges in the project manager role, changes, and collaboration in projects. Based on 20 years of wide-ranging research in project management and leadership, this book will provide useful insight into what it takes to deal with project leadership challenges. [Subject: Business, Project Management]

Project Management and Leadership Challenges, Volume III

Project Management and Leadership Challenges, Volume III
Author: M. Aslam Mirza
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947441779

Project implementation aligned with strategic advancement is a challenging endeavor, particularly in an environment of increasing complexity and productivity issues. Your prime issue is to plan for right action in right time, in right manner, and for the right purpose. Your attention determines the experience you end up with, and the experience determines the outcomes you have reached. Therefore, you must control your attention to control arriving at your desired outcomes. William James, in his book The Principles of Psychology (Vol I, 1890), wrote a simple statement, “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” The statement is highly relevant even in the 21st century for managing high productivity through “attention management.” This third volume provides areas for attention management and focuses on diversity, team building, meaningfulness, and growing to leadership, all of which are essentially required for maximizing and cultivating the real benefits with application of project management approach in business and industry.

Project Management and Leadership Challenges, Volume IV

Project Management and Leadership Challenges, Volume IV
Author: M. Aslam Mirza
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947441795

Learn how an “Agile” approach to project management blends older traditional ideas and newer discoveries to create innovative products and services. Agility in project management is the power to move quickly and easily and the ability to think fast and draw swift conclusions. Essentially, it is a value-driven approach that allows project managers to deliver high-priority and high-quality work on projects of a highly uncertain and complex nature. This book provides and understanding of Lean project management methods that are effective for complex projects impacted by cost and resource limitations. The author presents discussions on collaboration, which is a mindset that needs to be developed with training along with creating an environment at the workplace conducive to high performance. Collaboration is a soft skill that needs to be learned by every team member to create a collaborative culture. Readers will learn how to create collaborative leadership aimed at engaging teams and groups outside formal control for trust and innovation and inspiring them toward common goals.

Project Leadership

Project Leadership
Author: Timothy J. Kloppenborg
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523096934

This book traces the development of project leadership as fundamental to completing projects effectively, delineates the leadership tasks that must be accomplished at each step of a project's life, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions both by learning the ramifications of certain decisions and by seeing how those decisions are made in an example project.

Contemporary Challenges for Agile Project Management

Contemporary Challenges for Agile Project Management
Author: Naidoo, Vannie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799878740

Given the pace at which projects must be completed in an era of global hypercompetition and turbulence, examining the project management profession within the contexts of international trade and globalization is essential to encourage the highest level of efficiency and agility. Agile project management provides a flexible approach to managing projects as it allows a team to break large projects down into more manageable tasks that can be tackled in short iterations or sprints, thus enabling a team to adapt to change quickly and deliver work fast. Contemporary Challenges for Agile Project Management highlights the modern struggles that face businesses and leaders as they work to implement agile project management within their processes and try to gain a competitive edge through cross-functional team collaboration. Covering many underrepresented topics related to areas such as critical success factors, data science, and project leadership, this book is an essential resource for project leaders, managers, supervisors, business leaders, consultants, researchers, academicians, and students and educators of higher education.

The Leadership Challenge

The Leadership Challenge
Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111927897X

The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new seventh edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader. A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen. Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results Business is evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and leaders must keep pace with the changes or risk stagnation. People work differently, are motivated differently, and have different expectations today—business as usual is quickly losing its effectiveness. The Leadership Challenge helps you stay current, relevant, and effective in the modern workplace.

Scrum

Scrum
Author: Jeff Sutherland
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0385346468

The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver results If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains in workflow of as much as 1,200 percent have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid—or compelling—explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland. The thorny problem that Sutherland began tackling back then boils down to this: People are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best-laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross-purposes to one another. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and Sutherland’s experience as a West Point–educated fighter pilot, a biometrics expert, a medical researcher, an early innovator of ATM technology, and a C-level executive at eleven different technology companies, this book will take you to Scrum’s front lines, where Sutherland’s system has brought the FBI into the twenty-first century, helped support John Deere’s supply chain amid a global pandemic and supply chain shortage, reduced poverty in the Third World, and even planned weddings and accomplished weekend chores. The way we work has changed dramatically since Sutherland first introduced Scrum a decade ago. This urgent update shares new insights and provides new tools to take advantage of the radical productivity that Scrum delivers. Sutherland will show you how to optimize working with artificial intelligence and share the latest cognitive science research on culture, psychological safety, diversity, and happiness, and how these factors drive performance, innovation, and overall organizational health. This new edition contains a decade of lessons learned. Whether it’s ten years ago, now, or ten years into the future, the Scrum framework is guaranteed to help you deliver results. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable.

Contemporary Leadership Challenges

Contemporary Leadership Challenges
Author: Aida Alvinius
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9535129031

Social and behavioral science has for decades studied and recognized leadership as a social exchange between leaders and followers. But leadership is rather complex, and as such, it tends to lead to an increased interest within and across different disciplines. This book is an attempt to provide theoretical and empirical framework to better understand leadership challenges in various contexts. The authors cover an array of themes that span from an individual level to an organizational and societal level. In this volume, two sections are presented. The first section based on individual level focuses on different leadership styles and abilities, and the other section provides theories to understand leadership in public administration, in industrial settings and in nonprofit organizations.

The Leadership Gap

The Leadership Gap
Author: Lolly Daskal
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101981377

Do people see you as the kind of leader you want to be? Are your strongest leadership qualities getting in the way of your greatness? After decades of advising and inspiring some of the most eminent chief executives in the world, Lolly Daskal has uncovered a startling pattern: within each leader are powerful abilities that are also hidden impediments to greatness. She’s witnessed many highly driven, overachieving leaders rise to prominence fueled by well-honed skill sets, only to falter when the shadow sides of the same skills emerge. Now Daskal reveals her proven system, which leaders at any level can apply to dramatically improve their results. It begins with identifying your distinctive leadership archetype and recognizing its shadow: ■ The Rebel, driven by confidence, becomes the Imposter, plagued by self-doubt. ■ The Explorer, fueled by intuition, becomes the Exploiter, master of manipulation. ■ The Truth Teller, who embraces candor, becomes the Deceiver, who creates suspicion. ■ The Hero, embodying courage, becomes the Bystander, an outright coward. ■ The Inventor, brimming with integrity, becomes the Destroyer, who is morally corrupt. ■ The Navigator, trusts and is trusted, becomes the Fixer, endlessly arrogant. ■ The Knight, for whom loyalty is everything, becomes the Mercenary, who is perpetually self-serving. Using psychology, philosophy, and her own experience, Daskal offers a breakthrough perspective on leadership. She’ll take you inside some of the most cloistered boardrooms, let you in on deeply personal conversations with industry leaders, and introduce you to luminaries who’ve changed the world. Her insights will help you rethink everything you know to become the leader you truly want to be.

101 Project Management Problems and how to Solve Them

101 Project Management Problems and how to Solve Them
Author: Tom Kendrick
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814415571

Even with a terrific project management program in place, problems can arise to derail your team's hard work. The last thing you need in the heat of battle is academic theory. You need field-proven fixes, practical answers to urgent questions, and simple strategies for navigating around obstacles. 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them explores a wide range of these real-world challenges, including how to: * Keep a project on track despite unavoidable interruptions. * Prevent unreliable outside collaborators from jeopardizing the entire project. * Manage project teams who have little or no project management experience. * Make up for lost time without cutting corners. * Succeed in the face of threatened budget cuts. * And many more. Filled with plan-ahead strategies as well as on-the-fly solutions, this helpful guide is the ultimate project adviser and on-the-job troubleshooter in one!