How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team

Lewis, James P, Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 0814451373 / ISBN 13: 9780814451373

Published by Amacom / American Management Association, New York, 1993

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New York: Amacom / American Management Association, 1993. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (26.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First printing with the complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Keywords: Business Management. Leadership. Project Management. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. ix, 196pp .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team
• Publisher: Amacom / American Management Association, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814451373
• ISBN 13: 9780814451373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing of the First Edition.
• Condition: Fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Management / Leadership / Business

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Synopsis

The need for greater efficiency is turning project managers around the world on to an innovative solution - using teams to keep complex projects on track.
Whether you're planning a new facility, launching a new division, or installing a new computer system, nothing will better prepare you to build an effective working team than James Lewis's How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team. This first-of-a-kind guide to more productive project management utilizes team-building principles to bring project members up to speed.
How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team describes how to integrate the team-building process with the planning, scheduling, and control phases of project management. It lays out all the techniques necessary to maximize team effectiveness from the project's inception all the way through to completion. And it supplies the understanding and people-skills necessary to keep both individual members - and the team as a whole - moving on the right track.
An aid to managers in all industries, How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team will help you develop a personal action plan that will inspire commitment and motivation in your team. The author discusses team characteristics and group dynamics, and covers every aspect of building and managing a team, including how to select team members; clarify goals, roles, and relationships; coordinate and supervise the team (including "problem children"); facilitate team decisions; and improve team performance.
You'll find step-by-step instructions for meeting routine challenges, overcoming typical team obstacles, and handling special problems associated with matrix models, temporary assignments, and the use of subcontractors. The book also includes a variety of practical tools, including ready-made questionnaires and solutions, to help you diagnose and cure your own team problems.
How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team is a synthesis of the author's personal expertise with the best theory-based methods. James Lewis has spent fifteen years in project management, product engineering, and quality management, so he knows what a manager needs to make teamwork a productive - and rewarding - experience.
"Cooperation is a function of interdependence, a recognition that 'we're all in this together,'" Lewis says. "A team that won't work wastes everybody's time, creates frustration, and accomplishes results poorly at best." How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team should enable managers to steer clear of these pitfalls and get on with the challenge at hand.