Book description
This provocative book combines theory and practice and is the first of its kind to develop a complete model of the project leader function in modern corporations. It addresses such diverse, but equally important, roles of project leader as visionary, strategic manager and ethical leader. It is a hands-on guide detailing the specific steps you will need to follow in creating a project vision, reaching all project stakeholders and selling that vision.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Chapter 1. What is Leadership?
- Chapter 2. Classical Theories of Leadership
- Chapter 3. Accountability for Results
- Chapter 4. Creating a Project Vision: The Image that Guides the Team's Work
- Chapter 5. Developing a Project Vision: A Step-by-Step Approach
- Chapter 6. Leadership and Team Building: Gaining Cooperation from Team Members
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Chapter 7. Leadership Ethics: Doing Right While Doing the Right Thing
- Ethics in Business
- Project Management Characteristics that may Lead to Ethical Dysfunction
- What Ethics is Not
- The Basis of Ethical Reasoning
- Values in Society
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Means versus the Ends
- Three Key Questions
- Relating the Three Questions
- What does Our Motivation have to do with This?
- Creating and Implementing an Ethical Vision
- Conclusion
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Chapter 8. Leadership and Project Strategy: Driving the Project to Success
- Leading Plus Managing: Strategies Drive Projects
- Keeping the Project on Course: Solve the Right Problem, Understand Key Assumptions, and use New Frameworks
- Keeping the Project Moving: Identifying Roadblocks
- Changing the Course of a Project: Revolutionary Changes
- Implications for Project Managers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Leadership and the Political Side of Project Management
- Chapter 10. Leadership and the Future of Project Management
- References
Product information
- Title: Project Leadership: From Theory to Practice
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 1998
- Publisher(s): Project Management Institute
- ISBN: 9781628251630
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