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...

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 ...

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?...

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...

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.

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 ...

The business of creating our built environment remains largely siloed and disconnected today. Owners, designers, construction managers, and trade contractors each defend their profit margins by shifting risk to others and focusing on their own piece of the puzzle. Lean thinking promises to change all this, yet has proven particularly difficult to implement in the building industry. Better Building provides a practical model for putting lean thinking into action and improving the experience of project work. Based on years of experience shifting mindsets and behaviors, this model answers the ...

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 ...

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.

*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...

Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional "touchy-feely" teambuilding. To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in "How NASA Builds Teams"—an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods.

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...

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.  

Introducing Project Management Mastery—the ultimate guide to mastering project planning and scope management. This comprehensive book is perfect for project managers, team leaders, and anyone responsible for managing projects of any size, complexity, or industry.

Are you a project manager struggling to keep up? Drowning in status reports, buried in Gantt charts, and exhausted from putting out fires? There’s a better way to lead. In a world where technology is changing every rule, your job as a project manager isn't disappearing—it's evolving. The AI-Powered Project Manager is your practical blueprint for a new era of leadership, where technology handles the details and you focus on what truly matters. Written by an industry veteran, this book is a no-nonsense guide that shows you how to partner with AI to build more efficient, successful, and ...

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.

Mastering One-on-One Meetings: A Comprehensive and Quick Guide to Better Leadership by Taylor Graham is a practical manual designed to help leaders and employees make the most of their one-on-one meetings. The book underscores the importance of these meetings as pivotal opportunities for building relationships, addressing challenges, and fostering employee development. This quick guide includes: 1. **Purpose and Preparation:** Graham highlights that one-on-one meetings are essential for connecting with team members, aligning on goals, and providing support. She advises leaders to prepare ...

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. 

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.

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...