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Here's the June 2006 roundup of recently published books recommended by and for project professionals — five titles that address a range of top-of-mind topics, including project sponsorship, software performance measures, leadership versatility and more.
Have your read a book lately that truly changed the way you go about your job in the project management world? One that shed practical or inspirational light on a difficult challenge, helping you sharpen or expand your abilities and evolve as a project leader? It is said that the best learning is “done by doing.” But sometimes, the “doing” can be captured and communicated in a way that saves others from hitting their heads on a wall until it breaks — or they do. Sometimes there are books that contain the directions to show you how to hurdle the wall or go around it.
If you feel strongly about a book (or two) that has helped you develop during your project management career, share it with your peers by emailing a 200-to-300-word recommendation, including specifics on how the book helped, to Projects@Work. If we publish your advice, we’ll send you a cool Projects@Work cap (a very popular item at industry events). In the meantime, here’s our latest roundup of five new books that may be of interest to project professionals.
Project Sponsorship
The success or failure of any project often hinges on how well the project …
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain |