The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills, 2nd Edition
- 15h 57m 59s
- Alfonso Bucero, Randall Englund
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- 2019
This new edition of a classic, best-selling guide addresses the soft project management skills that are so essential to successful project, program, and portfolio management. Mastering leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, and organizational politics has always been key to project manager success. This book demonstrates the why and how of creatively applying soft project management skills in these areas and shows how to develop, adjust, and hone these skills given the forces and trends in today's business world.
Using real-world stories and case studies to model how to implement these skills, Englund and Bucero illustrate how the right mix of soft and hard professional skills can help create an environment that supports greater project success. This second edition features new sections on agile project management, ethics, business analysis, management across generations and between cultures, and more. It maps well to recent topic updates in the sixth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
This book is a valuable manual for all the complex interpersonal skills necessary for project managers' success and will help them develop a more complete portfolio of skills, knowledge, and attitudes to serve as road maps to greater project success.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - Leadership and Management Skills
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Chapter 2 - Personal Skills
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Chapter 3 - Negotiating Skills
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Chapter 4 - Political Skills
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Chapter 5 - Conflict Management Skills
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Chapter 6 - Project Management Skills
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Chapter 7 - The Role of Humor and Fun
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Chapter 8 - Organization Skills
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Chapter 9 - Environment Skills
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Chapter 10 - Change Management Skills
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Chapter 11 - Sales Skills
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Chapter 12 - Market and Customer Knowledge
