Stop Playing Games! A Project Manager's Guide to Successfully Navigating Organizational Politics

Stop Playing Games! by best-selling author Rick A. Morris takes a completely different look at project management, using games like The Pricing Game, Guess the Truth, and Grapevine; to illustrate and help readers overcome organizational politics on projects.

This one-of-a-kind book from the author of Project Management That Works! and The Everything Project Management Book dives deep into the topics of gaining buy-in from upper management, accurately estimating time and cost, controlling project communication, managing within corporate culture, taking care of your team, and more. Challenges and issues covered in this book include:

- Presenting management with realistic options - Getting your point across without confrontation - Controlling the message and the communication channels - Utilizing honesty and trust as a project management tool - Knowing what is under your control, and what is not - Overcoming poor project management conditions - Making real change happen without taking things personally! If navigating organizational politics is stifling your ability to effective manage projects, you need to read this book today!

Rick A. Morris, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and creator of a non-profit foundation to promote Project Management in charities and other non-profits. Rick is an accomplished project manager and public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him a sought after speaker at PMI chapters, various civic organizations, and a frequent guest lecturer at local universities.

Rick holds the PMP (Project Management Professional), MPM (Masters of Project Management), OPM3, Six Sigma Green Belt, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, TQM, ATM-S, ITIL, and ISO certifications. Rick is the Owner of R2 Consulting, LLC and has worked for organizations such as GE, Xerox, and CA and has consulted to numerous clients in a wide variety of industries including financial services, entertainment, construction, non-profit, hospitality, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing.