Projects do run into difficulties from time-to-time, that’s the nature of projects and you shouldn’t be surprised. Indeed, as Elmar Kutsch, Mark Hall and Neil Turner illustrate in their great new book Project Resilience, you may not be able to predict a crisis but you can very likely predict how people will respond.
Authenticity is the buzz management term of the decade, but what does it mean and how is it related to project management? Kevin Ruck and Ann Pilkington explore the way that leaders are expected to be more authentic today and what the benefits are, focusing on one core element of authentic leadership: relational orientation.
You need to start planning ahead for the rebid almost before the euphoria of a successful bid has worn off. Nigel Thacker offers plenty of sensible advice about sustaining competitive contracts in his book Winning Your Rebid: How to Retain Contracts Through Successful Competitive Rebids.
Knowing what you want is fundamental, but you also need to know what you don’t want. Any project develops its own momentum. The momentum of a mega-project is correspondingly large. Unless you have clear grounds for deciding not to enter the contract, there is a very real danger of becoming gradually committed to a deal that would never have been considered acceptable if it had been offered at the start.
Stakeholder communication may be a very urgent requirement for every project but Ann Pilkington’s article in Simply Communicate shows why it’s …
So what does that say for the way we run projects and, more importantly, the way we develop project leaders? …
There are seven fundamental things that every senior executive should know and understand about project risk management and David Hulett …
This is the second in the promised series of posts highlighting Gower’s publishing programme in a given topic area for …
If you are a project sponsor, project board member or simply a decision maker, how much do you need to …
Lynda Bourne’s work on stakeholder management has developed into a significant body of knowledge (Stakeholder Realtionship Management) and she’s recently …
