Description
Book SynopsisQuantitative analysis of outcomes vs PMs at the individual level
Leading Complex Projects takes a unique approach to post-mortem analysis to provide project managers with invaluable insight. For the first time, individual PM characteristics are quantitatively linked to project outcomes through a major study investigating the role of project leadership in the success and failure of complex industrial projects; hard data on the backgrounds, education, and personality characteristics of over 100 directors of complex projects is analyzed against the backdrop of project performance to provide insight into controllable determinants of outcomes. By placing these analyses alongside their own data, PMs will gain greater insight into areas of weakness and strength, locate recurring obstacles, and identify project components in need of greater planning, oversight, or control.
The role of leadership is to deliver results; in project management, this means taking resp
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
About the Authors xiii
Introduction Executive Summary 1
Chapter 1 Getting Grounded 9
Part One
Chapter 2 Methodology and Data 27
Chapter 3 The Unique Demands on Complex Project Leaders 45
Chapter 4 The Traits and Skills of Effective Project Leaders 63
Chapter 5 From Personality to Practice 91
Part Two
Chapter 6 Joseph Brewer 117
Chapter 7 Don Vardeman 129
Chapter 8 Nora’in MD Salleh and Dzulkarnain Azaman 149
Chapter 9 Jay Sexton 165
Chapter 10 Paul Harris 179
Chapter 11 David Young 195
Chapter 12 What Have We Learned and What Does It Mean? 215
Index 233
