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9780071739337

Creative Project Management

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    9780071739337

  • ISBN10:

    0071739335

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-18
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill

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You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning-all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule.

Author Biography

About the Author
MICHAEL SINGER DOBSON
is an internationally known project management consultant, author, and lecturer. He's the author of 20 books on various aspects of project management, office politics, organizational dynamics, and personal growth. A popular seminar leader and keynote speaker, Dobson brings a practical real-world background, good humor, and a dynamic personal style to make his topics come alive. His book Enlightened Office Politics (with Deborah Dobson) was named one of Library Journal's Top 100 Business Books for 2001. His simulation game BATTLESYSTEM won the H. G. Wells Award.Michael's client list has included the U.S. Navy's nuclear program, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Union Carbide, NASA, GSA Public Building Service, and Australian State Rail. He recently authored the "Decision-Making" chapter for a NASA-sponsored textbook on systems engineering. He's given well over a thousand seminars on three continents. Michael is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. v
Why Do 70 Percent of Projects Fail?p. 1
What We Know and What We Thinkp. 23
The Most Dangerous Word Is a Premature Yesp. 47
Good Enough, Barely Adequate, Failurep. 75
When the Project Appears Impossiblep. 99
Knowns and Unknowns: The Risk Factorp. 130
Project: Intelligencep. 155
It Takes a Village to Wreck a Projectp. 171
Framing Changep. 194
Salvaging Project Valuep. 213
Questions for the Creative Project Managerp. 227
Cognitive Biasesp. 233
Bibliographyp. 247
Indexp. 251
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