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CHAPTER 18

Dealing with Stakeholders

When the fourth edition of this book was current, I was in China, and a new translation had just been published. Project management was a hot topic, and I had been invited to speak in five locations throughout mainland China. In each location, I had a translator, who did sequential translation. I would say a sentence or two and she would repeat it in Chinese.

In one province, my translator had received a master’s in project management from a British university and her English was first-rate. We had a book signing while I was there and they sold a bunch of books. In fact, there were around 300 attendees in ...

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