Suzanne Davenport
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Are you struggling to create a reliable project schedule while the scope keeps changing, overcommitted team members can’t forecast their future availa
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bility, and uncertainty abounds? Are your project teams missing deadlines and falling increasingly behind, or are projects failing to deliver the planned benefits? Are you managing teams and wondering how to boost the emotional intelligence of those on your team?
In Herding Smart Cats: Project Management Reimagined, Suzanne S. Davenport argues that the technologies and tools that got us where we are today won’t get us where we want to be tomorrow. There is simply too much ambiguity and unpredictability to manage today’s complex projects with detailed schedules and we need to transition from schedule management to relationship and benefit management. This book offers you a better way to manage your “smart cats,” those savvy, dynamic, and innovative people who cannot be easily herded.
After delving into the science behind effective leadership and project processes that she’s been crafting for over a decade, Davenport offers a vision of how twenty-first-century technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain could help us build analytics, simulations, visualizations, and tracking tools that can guide teams, leaders, and executives in their quest to successfully manage all work in their organizations.
Whether you are an executive, a professional, an experienced project manager or a novice, this business book will help you better understand how to herd "smart cats," and achieve greater benefits for your organization and the people who work there.
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