Lateral Approach to Managing Projects
Simple Principles for Achieving High Customer Satisfaction and Mutual Profitability
You know you are well trained. You know you are experienced. You know you are a good project manager. How come your customers are not more satisfied? How come your projects are not more profitable? How come projects seem to drag on and on? How can you become a leader of your projects? What are the keys to making customers happier?
The Lateral Approach introduces a powerful set of management principles that produce results and bring out the best in people. By adding new perspective to conventional wisdom, the Lateral Approach cuts through the complexities of handling common day-to-day management challenges.
This book will take you on a journey from a project leaders viewpoint. You will discover new insights, priorities and solutions to common challenges. Armed with the knowledge in this book and the new perspective as a project leader with the corresponding responsibility, you will find new courage to take charge, to delegate and to get the job done.
This book will show you:
The Lateral Approach introduces a powerful set of management principles that produce results and bring out the best in people. By adding new perspective to conventional wisdom, the Lateral Approach cuts through the complexities of handling common day-to-day management challenges.
This book will take you on a journey from a project leaders viewpoint. You will discover new insights, priorities and solutions to common challenges. Armed with the knowledge in this book and the new perspective as a project leader with the corresponding responsibility, you will find new courage to take charge, to delegate and to get the job done.
This book will show you:
- The true meaning of meeting contractual obligations, creating value and getting final acceptance
- Why you must "Do what you say and say what you do"
- How you can create routine meetings with the key stake holders
- How you can create incremental success
- How you can assert authority
- Why you must empower your clients
- What you can do to carry out your leadership role