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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. Following processes. What is Project Execution?

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The Complex Project Toolkit (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Complex Project Toolkit is really a book about paradigms in project management and how to encourage teams (and project managers) to stay curious and to embrace uncertainty. This is not a ‘how-to’ book with templates or checklists, but rather a scaled-out strategy view. What makes a project complex? Other thoughts.

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Top 10 Must-Read Books on Collaboration on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve put together my top list of the best books on collaboration, with a few communication skills books thrown in too. These are the books that I turn to time and time again. Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers is the book I wish I had written. It’s also a book I find myself frequently recommending.

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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a question I’m hearing quite a lot at the moment: How do I turn my company’s strategy into actual projects? It’s good to have a strategy, of course. But a strategy that stays in a fancy PowerPoint presentation isn’t helpful to anyone. That’s not a strategy, it’s a document. Identify strategic themes.

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From To Do to Done: Book Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you have, this book from Maura Nevel Thomas will give you the tools to evaluate how you organize and track tasks efficiently. It’s a short, colorful, nicely laid out and giftable book, designed to be impactful in just an hour. It’s a short, colorful, nicely laid out and giftable book, designed to be impactful in just an hour.

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Book review: How to Manage in a Flat World

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Actually, this book isn’t about coping with changes to the natural laws of Planet Earth, but rather how to manage people who are scattered all over it. How to Manage in a Flat World is subtitled 10 strategies to get connected to your team wherever they are. A key theme throughout the book is fostering trust.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They don’t waste time looking for stuff or trying to work out how to get things done because there are systems, tools and processes that support them. Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. So we’re looking for next level strategies to get more productive.