From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Book review: Business Etiquette

August 30, 2010

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Business Etiquette. This book has a rather long subtitle: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy. I flicked straight to the back to read what Ann Marie Sabath had to say about working with Brits. I thought it was funny that she advises [...]

Book review: Fast Track Networking

August 27, 2010

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Fast Track Networking. Lots of books talk about how to ‘do’ networking, and I’ve written about it in the past. The thing I liked best about Lucy Rosen’s Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations Into Contacts book is that it does actually tell you the answers [...]

Book Review: Why Women Mean Business

August 25, 2010

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Why Women Mean Business. There’s a skills shortage. If you haven’t noticed it yet you will do when the baby boom generation starts to retire. There just aren’t enough people entering the workforce to keep up with demand, and meet the needs of my generation’s [...]

Book review: Confessions of a Public Speaker

August 23, 2010

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Confessions of a Public Speaker. Scott Berkun, author of the hugely popular project management book Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management, has written a new book. Confessions of a Public Speaker is about Berkun’s life on the road as a speaker, and it is full [...]

Book Review: Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success

August 20, 2010

The Summer of Books 2010 continues with this review of Getting to the Top. “Evaluating success depends on the scale you select and varies based on one’s aspirations and self-image,” writes Kathryn Ullrich in Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success. So you could consider yourself a successful project manager if your peer group [...]

Book review: Comebacks

August 19, 2010

Are you a project management contractor who left the last job under a cloud? Or a permanent project manager having a rough time of it on your project? Then you should read Comebacks: Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms, by Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli. Not because it [...]

Book review: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide

August 18, 2010

I recently got a copy of the 5th edition of PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, which is the partner text to the Review Guide and has been fully updated for the 4th edition of the PMBoK. Kim Heldman’s book is a weighty text, coming in at over 600 pages and with another two [...]

Book review: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide

August 16, 2010

PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide has a practical, descriptive title – and it’s a practical, descriptive book. Kim Heldman and Vanina Mangano have written this book specifically for those project managers aiming to sit their PMP exam. It’s structured logically, taking you through the project lifecycle. The book starts with a review of [...]

Book review: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 11, 2010

Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 cover

This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

This new version of the PRINCE2 manual for project managers feels a lot clearer and structured. Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2: 2009 Edition has more diagrams and a greater degree of clarity and explanation about the themes and processes. This makes the book more graphically interesting than the previous versions, and I’m sure this makes [...]

← Previous Entries