Don't Park Your Brain Outside: A Practical Guide to Improving Shareholder Value with Smart Management

Don’t Park Your Brain Outside is a book filled with anecdotes, helpful hints, the latest methods, and even cartoons!

Don’t Park Your Brain Outside is the thinking person’s guide to extraordinary project performance with "SMART™" management. Francis Hartman has assembled a cohesive and balanced approach to highly effective project management. It is deceptively simple. Called SMART, this new approach is Strategically Managed, Aligned, Regenerative, and Transitional. It is based on research and best practices, tempered by hard-won experience. SMART has saved significant time and money on the hundreds of large and small, simple and complex projects on which it has been tested.

This book takes a different approach to project management, making it more accessible to the many people who manage or participate in projects. It offers an approach to project management that deals with many of the real day-to-day concerns of the practitioner in delivering difficult and volatile projects. It brings together the processes and techniques that many exceptional managers use and that researchers are trying to understand —the balance of hard tools and people skills that lead to highly successful projects.

Francis T. Hartman, Ph.D., is Professor and NSERC/SSHRC/Industry Chair in project management at the University of Calgary and president of SMART Management, Inc. He has over 30 years of project management experience in project-based companies in Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and the United States.