Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook

How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects

By: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects.

We're now living in the project economy. As the number of projects initiated in both the public and private sectors skyrockets, project management skills have become essential for all leaders and managers. But despite this project boom, the failure rate remains extremely high. Why? Leaders have too many projects and too little visibility into them, and they lack the project implementation competencies necessary to deliver their projects successfully. Project managers have the technical skills, but they often have trouble translating their hands-on know-how up to the leaders'-eye view. Worthy projects languish and fail to deliver benefits, starved of resources, while too much investment is made in projects with less merit or potential value. The HBR Project Management Handbook will help you bridge this gap.

In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a simple and intuitive framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, you'll learn to more effectively navigate through your organization's inventory of projects, programs, and strategic, and agile initiatives in order to better select which ones to push forward and which to kill, as well as how they should be prioritized and how you can ensure they're completed as planned. Timeless yet forward-looking, the advice in this book will help you and your organization thrive in the project-driven world.

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Project Leadership is The Future

This book not only details and consolidates project management, it also teaches you how to be a project leader.

Great resource for people learning

The concepts in this book are really forward thinking and incredibly helpful for people looking to get into Project management, without dictating what everyone should be doing. A great tool for the PM toolbelt.

Great for PMO

This handbook has everything a PM needs to succeed! I suggest getting the hard copy for quick references.

Excellent book, incorporates modern topics,

Loved the book. Finishes it. Would add few more PMI test topics. Highly recommend. I also own the printed version.