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No Authority? No Problem
Nothing about project management is easy, least of all accomplishing a mind-boggling array of interconnected tasks when no one on your team is a direct report. But there are practical ways to increase your ability to lead and influence, according to author and veteran project manager Tom Kendrick.
Tom Kendrick has heard the grumbling before. You know which grumbling we’re talking about: That one of the most challenging aspects of project management is when the project manager doesn’t have the power to hire and fire subordinates on a project. He or she has been brought in — like a high-tech version of a hired gunslinger — to manage a large, complex project without any official authority. After having heard those grumblings more than a few times, Kendrick, now a senior project manager for Visa Inc., decided to do something about it.
He decided to write a book, Results Without Authority, which is subtitled “Controlling a project when the team doesn’t report to you.” For Kendrick, it was an opportunity to not only address the grumblings out there among project managers but also provide a prescriptive approach to getting the job done under less-than-ideal circumstances.
“Really good project managers do many of these things naturally,” Kendrick says. “They know what they bring to the table. And they know …
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