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

by Rick A. Morris

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 - 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!

161 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010