Using the "blind men and the elephant" metaphor, this useful guide explains how a "follow the leader" approach creates troubled projects by pulling attention from the real source of power and authority - the individual. Using real-world stories, it shows how anyone can transform a fuzzy project assignment into a meaningful, satisfying experience. Author David A. Schmaltz·-- creator of True North's Mastering Projects Workshop at Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Sun Workshop -- reframes the root cause of difficulties in project work, singling out "incoherence" (the inability of people to make common meaning from their common experience) as the main obstacle, and presents a set of simple, easily available techniques to increase a project's coherence and its participants' enjoyment of the process.

Common Sense in Project Management offers project managers a new way to add value, eliminate useless tasks, and empower developers. It enables you to maintain your current project management tools and processes while guiding you through the application of new steps designed to mitigate risks and raise new issues that better support your company and create competitive advantages.

This book summarises recent developments in project finance based on the first-hand experience of leading bankers, investors, lawyers, developers and government officials. Through case studies it analyses the economic viability, the principal risks, the biggest problems, the most innovative features, and the lessons learned from the projects in numerous market and industry sectors.

With a focus on doing the right thing right the first time, Ireland has constructed a solid presentation on how to invest in quality throughout all the project management processes. Understanding customers’ requirements and the essential nature of planning to meet quality expectations is explored thoroughly, along with a solid discussion of the choices of resources.

In 1999, the Project Management Institute (PMI®) completed a role delineation study for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Examination. A role delineation study identifies a profession’s major performance domains (e.g., initiating the project or planning the project). It describes the tasks that are performed in each domain, and identifies the knowledge and skills that are required to complete the task.

As organizations struggle to create and sustain shareholder value, executives are continually challenged to deliver effective business processes. Increasingly today's market requires companies to standardize operations in order to remain competitive. And, an effective way of keeping costs down and improving efficiency is by moving certain functions to one central location.

The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies. This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.

With more than 50,000 private foundations in the United States and the increasing scrutiny of the IRS, this much-needed, annually updated manual provides you with a wide range of tax rules and regulations for these foundations. Coauthored by a lawyer and tax accountant, the revised and expanded Third Edition includes practical tax compliance suggestions and in-depth legal explanations.

Developments in Europe mirror to a large extent the spread of equity culture in the US, but with lower levels of involvement and interesting differences across European countries. This book provides the theoretical and methodological background necessary for analysis of stockholding behavior, and presents empirical studies that use the most comprehensive household-level databases to identify determinants of stockholding in five major European countries.

Corporate accountability must be examined within the perspective of a company's business challenges. There is a synergy between shareholder value and the responsibilities of management. This book is based on an extensive research project done by the author from 2001 to 2003 in the United States, England, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland. It includes many case studies on corporate accountability and governance, particularly among financial institutions. Significant attention is also paid to good governance of pension funds.

Job migration across international boundaries and jobless economic "recoveries" are the latest disruptions in the workplace's human equation. To help policy makers, employers and employees to address these issues, DiVanna and Rogers propose a more rigorous approach to human capital. They point out that the emergence of stronger measures, management techniques and balance sheet valuations was a key enabler to the emergence of dynamic financial capital markets and international exchanges.

This book reports on foreign investments in transitional economies and the corporate governance of international strategic alliances in China. The book reviews the problems encountered by these international strategic alliances, provides significant empirical evidence of foreign investment decisions and profiles corporate governance and organizational learning in strategic alliances. Based on research into 1000 firms in China, it draws important conclusions for theory and practice.

This is the book for anyone who wants to know what really lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business that have marred the first few years of the twenty-first century. This book is not about stock market "bubbles". Nor is it about accounting scandals and craven auditors. Rather, it examines why companies fail. The authors postulate that the reasons companies fail are few, and all too common.