Breaking the Code of Project Management (eBook)

ALEXANDER LAUFER is the Barney Seidle Chair in Construction Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he served as Dean of the Faculty between 2001 and 2005. He is also currently director of the Center for Project Leadership of Columbia University. He is the author of the co-author of Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, NASA History Office, 2005; the co-author of Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders, Wiley, 2000; the author of Simultaneous Management: Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, AMACOM, The American Management Association, 1997; and the co-author of In Quest of Project Excellence through Stories, Procter& Gamble, 1994. He is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Project Management Journal.

Cover 1
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
List of Exhibits and Tables 8
Acknowledgments 9
Dr. Alexander Laufer: A Profile 10
Introduction The Real Story of Project Management: Results-Focused Leadership 11
1 The Green Principle: Plan and Control to Embrace Change 30
2 The Brown Principle: Create a Results-Oriented Focus 83
3 The Yellow Principle: Develop a Will to Win 120
4 The Red Principle: Collaborate through Interdependence and Trust 148
5 The Gray Principle: Update and Connect through Intensive Communication 175
Epilogue Becoming a Results-Focused Leader: From Geometric Order to Living Order 202
Notes and References 207
Index 264