Laufer, Alexander: Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management

Name: Laufer, Alexander: Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management
Brand: Pearson Academic
SKU: 978-0-13-262034-5
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In this book, renowned project management expert Dr. Alexander Laufer leads an all-star team of practitioners and thought leaders in presenting a powerful project leadership framework. Laufer's framework addresses the toughest challenges of new product development: large, complex projects composed of many diverse, geographically distributed, and highly interdependent components; and organizational change, as well as the unique characteristics of repeated and risky tasks. Laufer reveals core leadership principles that are crucial to successful project leadership in dynamic and complex environments, regardless of industry, project goals, or stakeholders. Then, together with his contributors, he presents eight chapter-length case studies covering exceptionally challenging projects in a wide spectrum of industries and products -- from developing missiles to reorganizing companies, building spacecraft and dairy plants to flying solar-powered airplanes. Powerful lessons taught by these projects include:

How to unleash the power of autonomy and learning
How to adapt to change on a timely basis, and "give up" control without losing control
How to manage "no fun" missions in hostile environments
How to deliver on bold ideas through sheer preparation
How to learn --and unlearn -- from practice

INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS: Instructor's Manual, available for download at .

ISBN: 978-0-13-262034-5

GTIN: 9780132620345

Über den Autor Laufer, Alexander

Dr. Alexander Laufer is a chaired professor of civil engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he also served as the dean of the faculty. Currently he is also a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership Magazine, Academy Sharing Knowledge, and as a member of the advisory board of the NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership. He has also served as the director of the Center for Project Leadership at Columbia University. He is a member of the editorial review board of the Project Management Journal. Dr. Laufer is the author or coauthor of five books; the two most recent ones are Breaking the Code of Project Management (Macmillan, 2009) and Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects (NASA History Office, 2005).