PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

Book News: March 13th, 2014

Building creative teams and developing key leadership skills and managerial styles is essential for development of effective project management.

The authors, Rory Burke and Steve Barron, provide a comprehensive guide to the human side of project management.

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GET THINGS DONE: WHAT STOPS SMART PEOPLE ACHIEVING MORE

Book News: March 3rd, 2014

Robert Kelsey’s What’s Stopping You? has become a self-help classic. His What’s Stopping You? books have helped thousands of people worldwide overcome their limiting beliefs and bash through their barriers to success.

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FROM LEADERSHIP THEORY TO PRACTICE

Book News: February 20th, 2014

Literature on leadership often fails to include clear connection between theory and practice. In this book Robert H Palestini details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and how their behavior was informed by leadership theory.

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CREATING HEALTHY WORKPLACES

Book News: February 19th, 2014

Healthy workplaces rely on policies to reduce stress, improve wellbeing and foster organizational effectiveness. The contributions to this book include a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together, to reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives. ??

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THREE HORIZONS: THE PATTERNING OF HOPE

Book News: February 10th, 2014

In this book Bill Sharpe sets out a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. The framework explains how people often manage to disagree so violently about their visions of the future and how to achieve them – and it offers a practical way to begin constructive conversations about the future at home, in organisations and in society at large.

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LEADING IN A CULTURE OF CHANGE

Book News: January 8th, 2014

At the very time the need for effective leadership is reaching critical proportions, Michael Fullan’s Leading in a Culture of Change provides powerful insights for moving forward.

Leading in a Culture of Change offers new and seasoned leaders’ insights into the dynamics of change and presents a unique and imaginative approach for navigating the intricacies of the change process. Michael Fullan shows how leaders in all types of organizations can accomplish their goals and become exceptional leaders.

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CHANGE IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS

Book News: December 19th, 2013

Pat Mclagan helps people redirect their beliefs and assumptions about change so that they can become active, vital participants in the changes around them.

Change Is Everybody’s Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will enable anyone to welcome change and take advantage of it rather than fear and resist it.

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PROJECT RISK GOVERANCE: MANAGING UNCERTAINTY AND CREATING ORGANISATIONAL VALUE

Book News: December 12th, 2013

Dieter Fink breaks new ground in two ways with this book. Firstly, he places project risk management in the context of today’s organisations in which objectives are increasingly implemented through projects to better respond to fast-changing markets. Secondly, he applies a governance perspective to examine project risk at the project and corporate levels, an approach which is significantly under-researched and for which theoretical knowledge and professional practice are at an early stage of maturity.

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BECOMING A BETTER BOSS

Book News: November 27th, 2013

Julian Birkinshaw explores why good management is so difficult. Between the stress of deadlines and the demands of today’s business environment, it’s easy for managers to lose sight of the importance of people management. Becoming a Better Boss not only shows managers how to lead effectively, but why doing so is vitally important to every organisation’s success.

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WISDOM AT PLAY

Book News: November 20th, 2013

This book reflects what Juliana McIntyre Fenn has learned from children about a God-given wisdom that is so deeply rooted as to last a lifetime, despite the challenges that sometimes threaten its power.

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