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The AMA Handbook of Project Management
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Paul C. Dinsmore and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, editors

©2006, hardback, 512pp., AMACOM

This comprehensive reference presents the critical concepts that all project managers must master.The book provides valuable insight on how to establish project goals, implement strategic and operational planning, design dependable organizational structures, manage the project life cycle, budget the project, and handle the transition from project idea to project reality.
Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office
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J. Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin


© 2006, hardback, 424pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices


Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management. 
Work It Out: Clues for Solving People Problems at Work
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Sandra Krebs Hirsh, with Jane A. G. Kise

©1996, paperback, 280pp. Davies-Black Publishing

You can't get a word in edgewise in meetings. Your boss keeps changing the plan. Your team spends more time feuding than working. What gives? This book uses information on personality types to help you decode behaviors and fit solutions to the personalities involved. Valuable for any manager of groups or teams, where productivity is impacted by the mix of individual work styles. Sample chapter titles: "Teaming with Type," "The Case of the Communication Conundrum," "Clues to Strength, Clues to Growth."
High-Performance Project Teams
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© 2006, PDF for download, 138pp., Center for Business Practices


This research, sponsored by ProjectWorld, investigated whether or not organizations that exhibit team building best practices are, indeed, high performing, to confirm whether or not the practices identified are really "best practices," and to identify those practices that are most critical to the success of the organization.  
Project Management Essentials
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William P. Athayde, Deborah Bigelow Crawford, Ruth Elswick, and Paul Lombard


© 2007, paperback, 190pp., Center for Business Practices


The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this introductory text. Project Management Essentials covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management, and change control.

The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership
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Jack Ferraro

©2008, hardcover, 362pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices

The Strategic Project Leader explores the attitudes and behaviors of successful leaders to provide project managers with actionable advice on how to foster and grow leadership skills. It's a practical guide to developing a project manager’s personal competencies and leadership skills, presenting checklists and assessments that enable project managers to self-direct their leadership training.
Project Management Essentials - Download Version
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William P. Athayde, Deborah Bigelow Crawford, Ruth Elswick, and Paul Lombard


© 2007, PDF for download, 190pp., Center for Business Practices


The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this introductory text. Project Management Essentials covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management, and change control.