Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers: 100 Six-Word Lessons to Make You a Better Project Manager

By Lonnie Pacelli

Need to bone up on those project management skills? Get 100 project management lessons to get smarter fast.30 years of project management wisdom on setting scope, budget and schedule management, managing sponsors and stakeholders, getting the most out of vendors and consultants, creating high-performance teams, and much more! Each lesson is exactly six-words with a concise description. Years of experience you can read through in an hour! Arm yourself with the tools you need to be a better project manager.

Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers is great for Project Managers Program Managers Agile Project Managers Project Administrators Project Sponsors Project Leaders Program Directors Project Directors

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933750197
• ISBN13: 9781933750194
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Pacelli Publishing
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Delightful Koans for Project Mangers

These six-word lessons provide rich fodder for PM meditation and discussion. A good PM may not learn anything new from this book, but PMs-in-training will find some of the most important lessons in project management... and the fact that they *are* the most important lessons. I wouldn't recommend reading this book cover-to-cover in one sitting, but instead I invite you to take each lesson and think about it for a day or so. If you're a seasoned PM mentoring a less experienced PM, you can use these lessons as a springboard for discussion, and perhaps provide some examples when the lessons don't quite hold true for you. (No rule or guideline is 100% infallible... even this one.) This concise book is a surefire source of icebreakers at your next PM meeting. FYI: From Wikipedia: A koan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Zen Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition. [...]