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Chaco Canyon for Project Managers

by Richard Brenner

If you work in an organization that executes much of its work as projects, your life probably feels like a slow-moving emergency — at least some of the time. When we've been through a long stretch of such chaos, we sometimes feel responsible for it. That is, we feel that we've done something wrong, or failed to anticipate something obvious, or that we lack certain skills or capabilities. Usually, the facts simply do not support these feelings. This e-book gives you a different perspective.

Skip to the Details: How To Orderhe essays in this ebook are based on observations I've made of client organizations and others over a span of 15 years. They're intended to get you thinking about how your organization deals with the problems of project management in a dynamic, fast-changing world.

The book is packed with insights, new perspectives, and tools for solving the problems that managers and project managers face every day.

Because every person and every organization is unique, you'll probably want to tailor the approaches suggested in Chaco Canyon for Project Managers but they'll get you thinking about a solution that will work for you. Write to me about how it turns out at the email address below.

You can get this e-book by ordering it by credit card below. When we receive your order, we'll send you instructions by email for downloading it. Enjoy!

Table of contents

1. Chaco Canyon for Project Managers
2. Conflict: Manage It Or Manage Our Response to It?
3. The True Costs of Cubicles
4. Organizational Feuds
5. Organizational Firefighting
6. When Is Change for a Dollar Only 82¢?
7. What to Do About Organizational Procrastination
8. Metaphors and Their Abuses
9. Organizational Coping Patterns
10. Why Complex Technology Projects Are Usually "Late"
11. Project Time
12. Saying "No": A Tutorial for Project Managers
13. Reviews and Inspections of Spreadsheets
14. What Software Quality Professionals Can Offer to Senior Management
15. Workplace Taboos and Change
16. Managing Technical Emergency Teams
17. Ten Project Haiku
18. Fifteen Tips For Change Leaders
19. The True Value of Unworkable Ideas
20. What Do You Do When You're Stuck?
21. Who's Doing Your Job?
22. Nine Project Management Fallacies

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