HBR Guide to Project Management Harvard Business Review
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Comments Managing a colleague with ten or fifteen more years of experience than you can present unusual challenges of motivation, boundary-setting, and leadership. But go a step further and find out what their interest in the project really is. Aug 25, 2010 - Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more. By Michael Fertik | 2:41 PM August 25, 2010. Jan 22, 2014 - This will help uncover hidden stumbling blocks and guide your project toward accomplishing its business outcomes, which can shift over the course of its timeline. This unifying thread can be particularly important during the often-protracted project delivery phase when, as research has shown, engagement from customers and support from top-level managers can decline.15 See J.S. An obvious step is to know who the stakeholders are. Enlist an entrepreneurial project manager. Managing Older Managers: A Guide for Younger Bosses. Raiffa, “Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions” (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 1999). Know what the stakeholders want. Subscribe today and get access to all current articles and HBR online archive. Sep 11, 2013 - Asking why before you begin a project raises its chances of success. It may be that your plate is simply too full. Jan 21, 2010 - Sign in · Register. Find out as much as you can about the origins of the project and what brought it to you.