Project Leadership

The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver results If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing...

In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work.

This program features a bonus conversation between the authors. The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says, "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously...

Senior level superintendents on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others doing the work. In fact, while most entry level superintendent positions execute work, senior leaders lead, organize, and build teams. This book is about building remarkable teams that build remarkable projects. To do this, you must have three key things: a multiplier leader, a strong team, and a strenuous performance target, goal, or milestone. With these three in place, any team can win! This book will help you become the ...

NOW UPDATED WITH TRUMP'S SECOND TERM — 2026 EDITION Updated throughout to reflect Trump's second term, Project 2025, and the latest legal developments. Germany, 1920s A man emerged with one ambition: power. One strategy: Tell a colossal lie. Repeat it often enough, and millions will eventually believe it. He succeeded and transformed a democracy into a dictatorship. His name was Adolf Hitler. United States, 2020s A man emerged with one ambition: power. One strategy: Tell a colossal lie. Repeat it often enough, and millions will eventually believe it. He succeeded in dividing a nation and ...

Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere.  

Transform workplace chaos into high-impact execution with actionable leadership strategies for complex project management. Whether you are listening on your morning commute or preparing to lead a cross-functional team, you will learn to stop firefighting and start driving measurable results...

Step into a new era of project management education with this comprehensive, audio-first study guide built for the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, the global standard shaping how project work is understood and applied in practice. This edition brings clearer principles, practical focus areas, and an integrated performance domain structure designed for real-world delivery across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.

WHAT DO ALL SUCCESSFUL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS HAVE IN COMMON? A competent team of well-rounded leaders . . . leaders who understand that safety, efficiency, and production are essential for completing projects of all sizes on time and within budget. All construction foremen are given the opportunity to lead crews based on work ethic, mechanical skills, technical knowledge, and reputation—and these attributes are extremely important towards getting the job done.

Being an Effective Chief of Staff the First or Umpteenth Time Are you curious about what a chief of staff is and what they do? Are you a current chief looking to build your framework and show impact? You may be an executive hiring a chief who wants to provide a recipe for success, or you have a chief looking to develop themselves and want to continue investing in their development. Written by an experienced chief with more than two decades of practical and effective experience, "The Chief of Staff" aims to provide a blueprint for whichever situation best aligns with your direction, what ...

Construction Scrum: How to Deliver Projects Easier, Better, and Faster is the first practical guide for construction professionals to implement the Scrum framework in the construction industry.

From administrator to leader — the project manager our industry actually needs. You know the pattern. The RFIs that should never have been needed. The change orders that exist because the work upstream was never finished. The trades you are driving instead of leading. The superintendent who feels undermined. The young APM learning to yell because nobody showed them another way. That is not a personality problem. It is what the industry has trained project manager to mean — and it is what has to change. This book is the alternative. Twelve moves a real project manager makes — every one...

What is it about Napoleon Bonaparte that has led recognized leaders such as General George S. Patton to study his principles-and countless books on management and leadership to quote his maxims? What lessons can today's project managers and leaders learn from Napoleon's successes and failures?...

Product management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains. 

Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never imagined possible.  

Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussion around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations.The audiobook is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.

Harness the potent power of Kanban and Scrum with this bundle and take your project-management skills to the next level.

Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies. Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management - from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning - and provides a path to the good solutions.

*Includes News Sections on Working with Virtual Teams and Leveraging Modern Technologies Enables project managers to understand priorities, maximize resources, and minimize risks in order to complete projects on time and on budget. For close to three decades, Fundamentals of Project Management...

The world is facing a global leadership crisis. Seventy-seven percent of leaders think they do a good job of engaging their people, yet 88 percent of employees say their leaders don't engage enough. Based on extensive research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives, The Mind of the Leader concludes that organizations and leaders aren't meeting employees' basic human needs of finding meaning, purpose, connection, and genuine happiness in their work.