The Single-Minded Project Ensuring the Pace of Progress
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ashgate Publishing Ltd
2014
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| Beschreibung: | Local Issues Can Be the Most Stubborn Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Glossary of Terms; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Pace and Reliability; Players' Behaviour and Collective Responses; A Common Methodology: Not Enough; Root Causes of Triumph and Failure; Terms Used in this Book; Professional Pointers; Part I Getting and Staying in Shape; 1 A Project's Collaboration; Introduction; The Single-Minded Project; Alliancing at the Andrew Field; Apple Inc. and a Different Formula for Collaboration; Collaboration Arises Locally; Shaping a Project; Professional Pointers; 2 A Project's Able People IntroductionThe Value of Professional Experience; An Ability to Handle Complexity; The Loss of Prime Contractor Expertise; Career Risks for Professionals; 'The Project Team': An Abiding Myth; A Project Regime; Adversity and Our Resilience to It; Stay Cool; Adversity Can Equip Us for More; Developing Proficient Players; Project Players: The 'Venture Capital'; Professional Pointers; 3 A Project's Strength; Introduction; Resolute Leadership; Causes of Project Failure; Contrasting Project Work with Line-of-Business Work; Showing the Way through Leadership; Binary Leadership Professional PointersPart II Conducting the Work; 4 A Project's Connections; Introduction; Players Working in Concert; Leveraging from Diversity; Engagement and Decision-Making; Dialogue and Its Diversity; Reaching for a Dialogue beyond Differences; Collective Intention; Behaviour; Individual-Centric or Group-Centric Performance Improvement; Patterns of Decision-Making in a Project Regime; Connection through Conversation; Courtesy Has a Purpose; Diligence of Dialogue; Dynamic Linking or Connected Autonomy; Connecting through Social Engagement; Social Engagement and Engagement Goals Engagement Capability: Diagnostic Tool EIQ6Connection and Community; Stepping towards Community Maturity; Professional Pointers; 5 The Project's Rigour; Introduction; The Right Things, Done Right; Deploying Processes; Developing the Script; A Process Iterated; Professional Pointers; 6 A Project's Pace of Progress; Introduction; The Pace Perspective: What Is It?; An Overriding Principle of Project Management; Managing the Pace of Progress; Project Schemas and the Conduct of Project Players ; The Roots of the Pace Perspective; Achieving Collective Intention The Social Experience, Behaviour and LeadershipProfessional Pointers; Part III Assuring Success; 7 A Project's Persistence; Introduction; A Crucial Factor Difficult to Define; Persistence of a Single-Minded Project Management Regime; Persistence and the 'Paradigm Paradox'; A Failure of Professional Persistence; Sustaining Impetus and Resolve; Functional Stupidity: A Denial of Professional Persistence; Persistence in Overcoming Complexity and Disorder; Professional Pointers; 8 The Project's Adaptation; Introduction; A Regime's Adaptation to Circumstances The Single-Minded Project offers an approach to project management that is entirely complementary to the existing methodologies; one that recognises that at its heart, the management of a project relies on the perceived choices and methods, behaviours and decision-making of its players and the freedom of action that is permitted to the project regime. It fills in the gaps where the methodology doesn't provide any kind of response to questions such as 'how fast should we deliver this project' and 'how much diligence is appropriate in our decision-making'. It recognises that performance ultimate |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781472441447 1472441443 |