Project Management According to Napoleon Bonaparte

121 Pages·2012·6.31 MB·English

Project Management French Style
Project Management
According to Napoleon
Bonaparte
A Lesson in Leadership
Walter A. Viali, PMP
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Project Management French Style
Project Management
According to Napoleon
Bonaparte
A Lesson in Leadership
Walter A. Viali, PMP
Today’s Topics
• Why A Lesson in Leadership?
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Is There A Leadership Void?
• Lessons On Leadership
– What Napoleon Can Teach Modern Day Managers
About Engaging Their Workforces
• The Right Leadership
• Leadership Mistakes
• In Conclusion…
– What We Look for in Leaders
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Why A Lesson in Leadership?
• Poor Risk Management is the number one reason
for project failure….
• Managing a schedule and a budget is hard work
and not easy to keep under control….
• Procurement Management is of dramatic
importance in all capital projects…..
BUT……
• ...... The most difficult aspect of managing projects
is and will remain People Management!
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Why A Lesson in Leadership?
Today’s professionals work in
disciplines which are typically
anchored in numbers, rules,
formulas, extreme precision…
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The Knack
Why A Lesson in Leadership?
As they make the transition to
project work and to project
management, these professionals
soon discover that projects, in all
their aspects, are at best
anchored in… quicksand!!!
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Why A Lesson in Leadership?
• We know that managers do things right
and leaders do the right things.
• But what we really need are project
managers who can also be good leaders,
can take their teams “to hell and back” on
difficult projects and achieve success.
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Leadership Role Models
• We need role models for leadership and
looking back in history, there are quite
a few to pick from.
• What made them great? What can we
learn from them?
• Can we adopt and can we adapt their
leadership talent and behaviors in our
own time?
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