by Alec Satin
You may be wondering why anyone would plunk down $54 to purchase a dictionary of project management terms. After all, you can google terms or use the online PM dictionaries available at PMHut, Project Auditors, or Visitask. Your time is valuable! There are too many books out there. PM Bookshelf posts present you with a core of books that are worth your time to buy and read. I wondered too when Christine Hohlbaum contacted me on behalf of ESI International and offered to send me a review copy of J. LeRoy Ward’s new third edition of the Dictionary of Project [...]
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by Alec Satin
Your performance as a project manager is directly tied to your ability to make good decisions consistently. This past week I was scrounging around my someday-maybe books to read pile when I came across Noel Tichy’s and Warren Bennis’s Judgment: How winning leaders make great calls. A few wonderful hours browsing this 370-odd page tome yielded the following basic concepts. They may be helpful to you as you think about your own decision making. Leadership Judgment Process Great decisions are more ongoing process than single action. Tichy and Bennis divide decision making into a three stage process: (a) Preparation, [...]
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