Sunday, December 6, 2009

Project Management For Dummies or Howard Hughes

Project Management For Dummies

Author: Stanley E Portny

More than two thirds of American companies use teams to execute their most important projects, making project management a highly valuable skill for advancing your career. Project Management For Dummies, Second Edition introduces you to the principles of successful project management and shows you how to motivate any team to gain maximum productivity.  You’ll find out how to:



• Define your project and what you intend to accomplish

• Identify project stakeholders and their expectations

• Develop a project plan

• Establish project schedules and timetables

• Determine which skill sets and resources the project requires

• Choose team members and define their roles

• Launch you project and track its progress

• Encourage peak performance

• Conclude your project successfully



Complete with helpful tips on delegating, shortening schedules, and optimizing your own performance Project Management for Dummies, help you get your project, and your career, off the ground in no time.



Table of Contents:
Introduction 1
Part I: Defining Your Project and Developing 7
Your Game Plan What Is Project Management? (And Do I Get Paid Extra to Do It?) 9
Defining What You're Trying to Accomplish and Why 29
Getting from Here to There 49
You Want This Done When? 71
Estimating Resource Requirements 105
Part II: Organizing the Troops 135
The Who and the How of Project Management 137
Involving the Right People in Your Project 149
Defining Team Member's Roles and Responsibilities 165
Part III: Steering the Ship 185
Starting Off on the Right Foot 187
Tracking Progress and Maintaining Control 203
Keeping Everyone Informed 229
Encouraging Peak Performance 239
Bringing Your Project to a Close 249
Part IV: Getting Better and Better 255
Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty 257
Using the Experience You've Gained 273
With All the Great New Technology, What's Left for You to Do? 279
Part V: The Part of Tens 293
Ten Questions to Help You Plan Your Project 295
Ten Ways to Hold People Accountable 299
Ten Steps to Getting Your Project Back on Track 303
Ten Tips for Being a Better Project Manager 307
Appendix A: Glossary 311
Appendix B: Earned Value Analysis 319

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Howard Hughes: Aviator

Author: George J Marrett

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Seducing the Boys Club or Real Simple Solutions

Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top

Author: Nina DiSesa

Fact #1: Forty years after the feminist revolution, fewer than 2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs are women.
Fact #2: The playing field is not level.
Fact #3: You need to get over this.

From the woman who became chairman of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency network in the world comes a wry reality check on how to get ahead and thrive in the testosterone-driven business arena.

Nina DiSesa is a master communicator, a ceiling crasher, and one of the most successful women in the corporate world. She is also a big-time realist who has figured out that S&M-seduction and manipulation-is the secret to winning over (and surpassing) the big guys. In Seducing the Boys Club, DiSesa shows that you can, in fact, leave your male colleagues in the dust-but not by following the rules you learned in business school.
By playing the roles of den mother, fraternity brother, little sister, and hard-nosed boss, DiSesa navigated the choppy, macho-minded waters of the workplace. All the "bad boys" in her life-and there are many-have provided a wealth of devilishly amusing stories and cautionary tales that DiSesa is only too happy to pass on. Ah, revenge can be sweet, but the truth is that she came to love those boys as much as they love her-which is the whole point.

DiSesa asserts that women need to meld their feminine characteristics (nurturing, compassion, listening) with the traits of their male counterparts (competitiveness, decisiveness, combativeness) to expand their professional horizons. In Seducing the Boys Club, DiSesa shares her practical, outrageous, and even controversial maxims for making it, including:

• Learn to appreciate men. Menlike women who like them.
• Remember that women are biologically wired to succeed.
• If you want to make a name for yourself, find a mess and fix it. A secure and comfortable job only holds you back.
• Don't assume that men never listen. They listen like a dog does.
• Don't be a quiet achiever.
• Act brave and you will look brave.
• Screw the rules. Make up your own.

Whether dead-on funny or deadly serious, DiSesa is always on her game, always on message, and absolutely on target as she arms women with the can-do confidence and no-compromises attitude they need to climb as high as their ambition can carry them-while keeping their standards impeccable and their integrity intact. Not for women only, this book should be read by men, too . . . though it won't give them any defense against a woman who can truly seduce a boys club!

Publishers Weekly

Chairman of McCann Erickson New York, part of one of the largest advertising networks in the world, DiSesa delivers a one-on-one mentoring session on working with, competing against and managing both men and women. Confirming that her nature is to nurture, she is thoughtful and confessional as DiSesa looks back at how she learned to defy her own bad habits-including in-office meltdowns-and to substitute charm in their stead. DiSesa also readily shares insights gained from such nongender-based blunders as letting clients take a break in the middle of a presentation (the clients failed to return to the conference room). Though she refers to manipulating and seducing and learning to exhibit "male" behavior throughout, DiSesa's hard work, talent and insight into human nature appear to be the real drivers behind her success. That DiSesa has managed to package her experiences into accessible form creates a welcome opportunity for both women and men hoping to duplicate her success. (Feb.)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information



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Real Simple Solutions: Tricks, Wisdom, and Easy Ideas to Simplify Everyday

Author: Real Simpl

Looking for a new way to set a table? Need to remove an ink stain? Fresh out of toothpaste? From imaginative ideas to innovative tricks to in-a-pinch fixes, Real Simple Solutions is packed with hundreds of easy and inspired ways to help you live better. Following the success of The Organized Home, their top-to-bottom guide to streamlining your surroundings, the editors of Real Simple have compiled hundreds of creative and practical everyday solutions for every part of your life - encompassing cooking, cleaning, decorating, entertaining, dressing, grooming, working, and more. With no-nonsense content and large, lush photos, this stunning hardcover book does double duty as an indispensable household resource and stylish addition to the coffee table.

Real Simple Solutions resolves life's little complexities - and allays the stress that accompanies them. The book is chockablock with ideas that are smart, surprising and easy to do, and perhaps best of all, cost little or no money. Whether they're step-by-step directions for hand-washing delicates, a soup-to-nuts list of pantry essentials, or new uses for newspaper, readers are guaranteed rock-solid, timeless information and advice.

Inspired by the magazine's perennially popular "Simple Solutions" section, the book logically organizes ideas by activity, and presents each chapter in a consistent, clear, and artful fashion. Page after page, Real Simple Solutions features:

  • Quick, low-cost ways to elevate the ordinary or unexpected, from dinnertime meals to bedroom decor
  • New uses for everyday items, such as emery boards, baking soda, and old beach towels
  • Simple instructions for doing common but often difficult tasks, like painting a room or carving a turkey
  • Mini organizing projects readers can do in minutes, for everything from desk drawers to dishwashers
In addition, the book includes a compendium of multitasking household products and their myriad uses, and concludes with an extensive, easy-to-use index. Plus, it includes a special eight-page "Crib Sheets" booklet containing tear-out sheets that summarize each chapter. An encyclopedic, graphic take on the traditional household hint book, Real Simple Solutions helps you do the things you have to do - so you have more time to do the things you want to do.