Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
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Make it Fly by Brigitte Cobb is subtitled “The step-by-step guide to make ANY idea, project or goal take off.” It’s a project management book with a difference – it’s not about project management and it’s not aimed at project managers. It’s just a method to get things done. However, by page 40 there’s a…
Social communications form a large part of life outside the office, and the connected project manager needs to incorporate those ways of out-of-the-office communications into working practices today. Many stakeholders already use publicly available, consumer-led social communication tools to manage their personal networks. In our drive to be easy to do business with, it is…
Ever wonder if you are doing all the right things for your job search? This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want by Andrea Kay will put your mind at rest – or highlight areas where you could do better. The book starts by explaining what employers…
Yes, you read that right. It’s a whole book about project management aimed specifically at people in the music business. And it’s very good. “What we can claim to have accomplished is based on what we finish, not on what we start,” writes Jonathan Feist, author of Project Management for Musicians. “Setting projects in motion…
Do you have too much to do? Are you worried about going away and leaving your project? Do you take your laptop on holiday? When you come back to your project, are there always pressing issues, loads of emails and a crisis to solve? Keith Murnighan, author of Do Nothing!: How to Stop Overmanaging and…
Did you fall into project management? Or get promoted to a project management role? Then you are probably a ‘accidental project manager’ – someone who never set out to study project management at university but who ended up doing a PM job by accident rather than design. Now, apply that same thinking to your project…
In their book, Project Stakeholder Management, Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen say that projects often fail because stakeholders are not adequately considered. “A recurring theme in these failures is project managers who have not taken sufficiently into account the interests and motivations of the persons or entities that can affect or be affected by…
I was a volunteer. I lost count of how many hours of community service I donated over 13 years of providing first aid cover at school fetes, amateur dramatic theatre productions, Remembrance parades, or in teaching others. But I don’t volunteer any more. Instead, I have a standing order that pays an amount to charity…
“Many of the most popular books on change address its psychological aspects, and focus on people and their internal states or motivations,” write Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon in their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work. They go on to say: This psychological perspective taken alone, however, can promote…
I have met Michel Thiry, author of Program Management, and he is a nice guy. However, I was disagreeing with him by page 1. He writes: “Project managers lack the proficiency and/or capability to understand or question strategic language and are often not aware of expected benefits.” If you are not aware of the benefits,…
Structured around 7 steps to a successful interview, Project Management Interview Questions Made Easyby Dr Andrew Makar is about more than the interview questions themselves. It is a whole guide to getting a new job. It’s a short book which makes it easy to read and it is written in a very relaxed, helpful style….
“Our culture desperately needs courageous servant leaders – men and women who have clear vision and strong character, who instill confidence and inspire excellence, who don’t fold under pressure, compromise on principle, or practice deception. In short, we need leaders who are committed to leading with honor.” So begins Lee Ellis’s book, Leading with Honor:…