Book description
Life doesn't have to be so complicated - and neither does business. In The Competitive Advantage of Common Sense, leading project management consultant Fergus O'Connell identifies seven "common sense" principles for supercharging your effectiveness. O'Connell unearths simple root causes underlying the most challenging business problems - and equally simple solutions. From project estimating to working with technical specialists, improving meetings to reducing interruptions, this book offers an arsenal of practical ideas for managers in any business environment.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- FT Prentice Hall FINANCIAL TIMES
- Financial Times Prentice Hall Books
- About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Many Things Are Simple
- 2. Know What You're Trying to Do
- 3. There Is Always a Sequence of Events
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4. Things Don't Get Done If People Don't Do Them
- Questions
- Scores
- The Idea
- Tools
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Examples
- Example 15: Getting a Life (Part 1)
- Example 16: Getting a Life (Part 2)
- Example 17: Aligning Goals or Objectives
- Example 18: Ensuring a Project or Endeavor Gets Done
- Example 19: Ensuring That Your Organization Delivers on Its Commitments
- Example 20: Coping with Interruptions
- Example 21: Managing in Recessionary Times
- So What Should You Do?
- References
- 5. Things Rarely Turn out As Expected
- 6. Things Either Are or They Aren't
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7. Look at Things from Others' Points of View
- Questions
- Scores
- The Idea
- Tools
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Examples
- Example 28: Meetings Revisited
- Example 29: Doing the Right Project
- Example 30: Status Reporting
- Example 31: Marketing Revisited
- Example 32: Planning and Executing a Project
- Example 33: Common-Sense Time Management
- Example 34: More Stress-Management Techniques
- Example 35: Assessing Things—Projects and Project Plans
- Example 36: Seeing Versus Noticing
- Example 37: Mind Mapping Common Sense
- Example 38: Gut Feel
- Example 39: Build a Fast-Growing Company
- Example 40: Negotiation
- Example 41: Presentations
- Example 42: Common-Sense Selling
- So What Should You Do?
- References
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Competitive Advantage of Common Sense: Using the Power You Already Have, The
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2003
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780131411432
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