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By (author) Coleman Sarah; By (author) MacNicol Donnie

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Focusing on the transformation that has taken place in the world of projects and leadership, this title looks at the nature of the leadership role in projects, why it is significant and how it impacts the processes throughout the project life-cycle from shaping and scoping, start up and delivery through to project closure.

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Project Leadership, the classic, best-selling textbook originally by Wendy Briner, Michael Geddes and Colin Hastings, anticipated so many of the changes in approaches to project management that are now regarded as mainstream – not least the focus on behaviours. The Third Edition by experts Sarah Coleman and Donnie MacNicol has been substantially rewritten, introducing new material and experience reflecting the transformation that has taken place in the world of projects and leadership.Project Leadership Third Edition looks at the nature of the leadership role in projects, why it is significant and how it impacts the processes throughout the project life-cycle from shaping and scoping, start up and delivery through to project closure. The authors put considerable emphasis on a set of core capabilities around the themes of vision and strategy, relationship building, communication and engagement. The book also focuses on building personal and organizational project leadership capability including models, tools and diagnostics drawing on experiences of working with projects and organizations from multiple sectors and across the globe.The Foreword and Endorsements have been provided by industry leaders.Sarah Coleman and Donnie MacNicol have retained and built on the wonderful range of simple, imaginative and very applicable models and perspectives developed by the previous authors. Every project leader, aspiring project leader and organization with project management communities should own and use a copy of this book.

Table of contents:
Contents: Foreword; Introduction. Part 1 Project Leadership and the Project Leader: What is project leadership?; Relationships and the project leader; The project and its impact on project leadership. Part 2 Leading the Project: Phase A – shaping and scoping; Phase B – start-up; Phase C – delivery; Phase D – closure. Part 3 The Core: Vision and the big picture; Building key relationships; Communication and engagement. Part 4 Building Personal and Organizational Capability: Building personal capability; Building organizational capability; An idealized project leadership development programme. Appendix; Index.

Review quote:

”Project leadership is a much discussed and written about topic but it suffers from being hard to define and describe in a meaningful way that enables people to reflect on their areas for development. It was therefore refreshing to review Project Leadership 3rd Edition. The authors have tackled head on this challenge and provided materials that both experienced and new-to-the-role project leaders will find of great value across all industry sectors. It contains a number of new models and diagnostics that will help readers to tackle the very real challenges they will face in their role. This book also goes much further than any other: it helps the individual to identify different development opportunities relevant to their own situation to help build their career; it also helps organizations set out excellent project leadership development programmes to support their talent. Every project leader, aspiring project leader and organization with project management communities should own a copy of this book.” Professor Denise Bower, Executive Director of the Major Projects Association and Professor at the University of Leeds, UK

”Effective project management is well recognised as paramount to the success of both public and private organisations and there is a myriad of referen