Conflict 101 [Book Review]
Who doesn’t have to deal with conflict at work? Read my review of Conflict 101 for an understanding of how culture makes a difference and the 5 approaches to resolving conflict that you can try today.
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Book review: Second Order Project Management
I found it hard to get my head around Second Order Project Management, a book by Michael Cavanagh. Even now, I don’t really know what he is advocating, although it seems to be a new way of describing techniques I think we should all be using anyway. Cavanagh describes second order project management like this:…
Book review: Everything is a Project
“Projects are the mechanism we use to move our departments forward one step at a time,” writes Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation, in his book, Everything is a Project. He continues: “Projects are what we use to execute our initiatives in chunks, make our products better, organise our efforts, and turn ‘what could be’ into…
Book review: Results Without Authority
Project team members are like library books. They are expert in a particular area, but you only have them on loan and you have to give them back when someone else says so. How do you keep a project team going in that situation? Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report…
Book review: Business Case Essentials
I’ve held on to Business Case Essentials: A Guide to Structure and Content by Marty J. Schmidt for quite some time, so apologies to the author for taking so long to review it. The reason it’s taken a while is because I’ve been using it. The book started life as a white paper in 1998…
Book review: Value Management: Translating Aspirations into Performance
Value Management: Translating Aspirations into Performance is a new book by Roger H. Davies and Adam J. Davies (Gower, 2011). It’s heavy going, but if you are into getting the best value out of the change programs you are delivering, then it makes useful reading. There is a fair amount of theory, but there are…
Book Review: Math For Grownups
Read this review of Math for Grown Ups by Laura Laing: the book that helped me rethink how I work with numbers in the office.
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Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership [Book Review]
Find out what tame, messy and wicked risks are in this review of David Hancock’s book about risk leadership. You’ll also find out why getting more knowledge about a problem isn’t they way to solve it.
The Co-generational Workplace: Book review of Fuse
“Organizations need to create a mash-up of the twentieth-century workplace and the twenty-first century workforce,” write Jim Finklestein and Mary Gavin in their book Fuse: Making Sense of the New Cogenerational Workplace. They believe that this approach will create a more robust, compelling economy. From the cover you would believe that this is another book…
Book review: The Information Diet
Did you know that you spend upwards of 11 hours a day consuming information? In The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay A. Johnson argues that much of what we consume – in information terms – is as bad for us as junk food. It’s a really interesting idea. The general concept is…
4 Steps to becoming a better project leader: Book Review: The Shift from One to Many
According to Chrismon Nofsinger, there are 4 steps on the journey to being a great leader, but most people only get halfway. “Leadership is about facilitating the output of others and giving them recognition,” he writes in his new book, The Shift from One to Many: A Practical Guide to Leadership. This is a great…
Communication skills for Project Leaders: Book Review of The Language of Leaders
Most of the business and project management books I review are written by authors outside the UK, so it was a pleasure to read about companies and scenarios I know well in a UK-focused book. In The Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results, Kevin Murray has interviewed 60…