This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble. Drawing on 20 years of frontline project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli identifies the 18 most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early warning signs, and how to fix them before it's too late. Here's just some of what you'll learn... <ul>
<li>...how to focus on the right problem, find and keep the right sponsors, realistically determine scope, uncover hidden risks, write more effective project plans...</li> <li>...involve the right people, get your whole team on the same page...</li> <li>...deal with vendors who don't deliver... manage and minimize cost overruns...</li> <li>...communicate more effectively...test right, train right...</li> <li>...streamline that last, endless 10% and finish strong...</li> <li>...and more...</li> <li>...a whole lot more.</li>
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If you're a working project manager, consultant, or team leader, this book is your secret weapon. It's fast. Relevant. Practical. Easy to read. Easy to use. Above all: it works.

The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw Ups, And How To Cut Them Off At The Pass

Business & Money

Pacelli, Lonnie

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

Great leaders get their point across so there's no confusion on intent or outcome ~ Improving communication skills is the single most powerful step one can take to supercharge a career. What are the best, PROVEN ways to motivate action now, and gain lasting influence in any organization? The Truth About Getting Your Point Across reveals what really works: 59 principles and breakthrough communication techniques. Discover how to recognize an audience's unspoken expectations; run effective meetings; develop powerfully motivating presentations; give teams clear direction; brainstorm and problem-solve efficiently; successfully interview, listen, and give feedback; influence difficult colleagues; make the most of informal communication; and communicate more effectively with global colleagues.

The Truth About Getting Your Point Across: ...And Nothing but the Truth

Skills

Pearson P T R

Behind Gold Doors-Nine Crucial Elements to Achieve Good-Enough Contentment (The Behind Gold Doors Series)

Business Culture

Pacelli Publishing

Most leadership titles you'll find in the business section and are meant to appeal to the busy executive. But what about the stay-at-home parent who has just been elected president of the PTA and has never lead anything in his or her life? Or maybe the newly-promoted first-line manager who has instantly inherited a team of leadership-starved employees? These folks need quick, practical leadership advice that makes sense and can be put into play right away. This is where Why Don't They Follow Me? comes in.In Why Don't They Follow Me? you'll get 12 vital leadership principles which form the basis of best-in-class leaders regardless of who you are leading or what you are trying to accomplish. Maybe you lead a team in your daily job; or maybe you own a small business; or maybe you're a leader of a large non-profit organization. Quite frankly, it just doesn't matter when it comes to these principles; if you want to boost your leadership skills, this book is for you.

Why Don't They Follow Me?: 12 Easy Lessons To Boost Your Leadership Skills

Dads of autistic kids need to own how to create strong sustainable bonds with their kids.  No excuses ~ "Man-speak" snackable wisdom lessons on raising an autistic child! Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives fathers 100 short, simple and practical lessons on how to create strong bonds with their children when autism is in the picture. Written by a father of an adult autistic son, Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives you straight-up advice that you can put to work right away.Whether it be about schooling, disciplining, seeking interests, or other topics, you'll get practical snackable wisdom nuggets that will help you understand your autistic child without all the double-speak and help all of you cope with autism.

Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids: 100 Lessons to Help Fathers and their Children Create Strong Bonds

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

15 million working age Americans have a disability. Only 4 million have jobs. Learn the 7 steps to create a workplace where people with disabilities can thrive. Jade was asked by her new boss to spearhead her organization's disability inclusion initiative. On her way home that evening she was in a horrific accident. While unconscious, she met 7 people who taught her how to create a disability inclusive organization. She had no idea how personal those lessons would be to her after she woke. Behind Gold Doors-Seven Steps to Create a Disability Inclusive Organization is a great resource for anyone needing to create a disability inclusive organization. It's most helpful for Senior Leaders | Executives | Project Managers | Program Managers |Human Resources Managers | Diversity Leaders | Inclusion Leaders | HR Professionals

Behind Gold Doors-Seven Steps to Create a Disability Inclusive Organization (The Behind Gold Doors Series)

Great leaders understand the importance of a neurodiverse workforce and the value that everyone brings ~ In 400 Tips on Autism and Leadership: Understand, Lead and Grow People with Autism  at Work, Home, and Life you get the most popular Autism and Leadership books by noted Autism and Leadership authors Lonnie Pacelli, Patty Pacelli, and Trevor Pacelli. This value-packed bundle includes over 400 tips and lessons to help you better understand, lead and grow people on the Autism spectrum. .400 Tips on Autism and Leadership: Understand, Lead and Grow People with Autism  at Work, Home, and Life includes the following books: Six-Word Lessons for Autism Friendly WorkplacesSix-Word Lessons on Growing Up AutisticGrowing Up Autistic-50 Things You Should Know About MeSix-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids15 Tips to Help Employees with Autism be Rock Stars27 Tips to Conquer the Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership17 Tips to Help You Find True Work/Life BalanceWith 1 in 68 births being on the autism spectrum, parents and leaders need to be equipped with the requisite tools to better understand, lead and grow people with autism.      400 Tips on Autism and Leadership: Understand, Lead and Grow People with Autism  at Work, Home, and Life can give you the help you need to succeed in your relationships with people with autism.            

400 Tips on Autism and Leadership: Understand, Lead and Grow People with Autism at Work, Home, and Life

Pacelli, Patty

Pacelli, Trevor

Behind Gold Doors-Five Easy Steps to Become a Wisdom Steward (The Behind Gold Doors Series)

Great leaders know the questions to ask and who to ask to better secure success ~ In Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster, you get 100 reasons why projects fail with an added bonus: the right questions to ask your team leads to help your project stay on track. Meant for the novice as well as experienced project manager, Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster will help you ask the pointed questions to keep you in the know, ensure your team leads focus on the right things, and put your project in the win column.

Six-Word Lessons to Avoid Project Disaster: 100 Questions to Ask to Keep Your Project from Tanking

Empowerment and delegation. Same thing right? Not even close. See the difference and get people to want to follow you. Sam was a young leader with great potential but didn't know how to empower his team. His manager sent him to an extraordinary class where Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Harriet Tubman explain Intentional Empowerment. The experience forever changed Sam and transformed him into an Intentional Empowerment leader. Can it do the same for you? Behind Gold Doors-Five Legends Offer the Keys to Empowering Leadership is great for New Leaders Nurse Administrators Project Managers Program Managers Pastors New Supervisors New Managers Healthcare Administrators Sales Managers

Behind Gold Doors-Five Legends Offer the Keys to Empowering Leadership (The Behind Gold Doors Series)

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