Project Managers at Work by Bruce Harpham

March 17, 2017 adminBusiness Careers

By Bruce Harpham

Read 25 in-depth, candid interviews with amazing undertaking managers. observe how undertaking managers paintings, what they do, how they adapt and make judgements, how they motivate and inspire others, what occupation classes and recommendation they could proportion, and the way they landed their present jobs both as undertaking managers or in additional senior positions because of their luck as venture managers. many of the undertaking managers featured during this book—together with a variety of application managers, executives, marketers, and CEOs with undertaking administration backgrounds and responsibilities—work within the know-how zone, yet many paintings in different industries, together with banking and fiscal prone, consulting, aerospace, strength, and transportation.

Bruce Harpham, PMP—a undertaking administration profession consultant and journalist—has selected interviewees who variety around the spectrum of corporation measurement and adulthood and of person profession stages—from CEOs who have been previously venture managers (such as Mavenlink’s Ray Grainger); to founders of undertaking administration consulting companies (such as Tramore’s Tom Atkins); to venture managers on the world’s best tech giants (such as IBM’s Bob Tarne, Google’s Michael Lubrano, Apple’s Seth J. Gillespie, and Cisco’s Hassan Osman), within the area (such as NASA’s David Woerner, Canadian house Agency’s Isabelle Tremblay and EUMETSAT’s Hilary Wilson), in monetary prone (such as TD Bank’s Ilana Sprongl and Ontario Municipal staff Retirement System’s Annette Lyjak), and at transportation businesses (such as Amtrak’s Sarina Arcari).

What you are going to Learn

Practicing undertaking managers and engineers and graduates who aspire to develop into venture managers will examine from the mouths of professional exponents on the best in their profession:

Break into venture administration, domesticate management talents, and impact higher-ups
Win assignments to control career-advancing tasks and ace deliveries
Avoid pitfalls and get over operational disasters and managerial mistakes
Manage the distractions and pressures of undertaking paintings effectively whereas keeping excessive morale
Discover the books, classes, and improvement concepts they used to make it to the top

Who This e-book Is For

Practicing undertaking managers—including the part million PMI participants required to pursue carrying on with schooling to keep up certification. The secondary readership is engineers, career-changers, and up to date graduates who aspire to develop into undertaking managers.

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