The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project

287 Pages·2015·3.44 MB·English

by  Susanne Madsen

PRAISE FOR TH E P OW E R
O F P RO J E C T L E A D E R S H I P
Susanne Madsen’s new book is a great guide for project managers l ooking
to move from implementers to leaders. At every turn of the page, the
evolving project leader will f nd stories, self assessments, and quizzes that
will help solidify the learning and provide pathways for the application of
new, stronger leadership skills to their projects. The emphasis on changing
your mindset from of one of implementation to one of leadership is one
that all project managers should take great effort to apply to their careers.
Dave Wakeman, Principal, Wakeman Consulting Group
The Power of Project Leadership is a must-read for everyone in the project
world who wants to up their game or be less stressed about delivery.
Written with an energy and commitment borne out of personal experience,
Susanne’s book is packed with frameworks and ref ective leadership
exercises to challenge the way you work and has many stories from
practitioners to inspire. Be brave, take a risk, get a copy and change your
game! Carole Osterweil, Director and Change Catalyst, OMQ Change
Consulting
Susanne’s book clearly demonstrates the insights and tools to become
an inspirational leader as well as an intelligent manager of projects.
Teams want their leaders to be inspirational and the processes they use
intelligently selected. Whether you are an experienced practitioner looking
to ref ect and hone your skills or setting out with a goal to become an
inspirational leader of projects this book provides the insight to do so.
Highly recommended. All my team have a copy. I’m that conf dent of
the effect it will have on my business. Paul Daniels, Managing Director,
Leadership and Management Ltd
Reading the book is like having a personal coach assess, tune and hone
your transition from manager into leader. Susanne’s coaching skills
have created an incremental learning environment where the value of
earlier exercises become even more apparent as the pages roll on. A must
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for postgraduate students and project professionals alike; I hope my
students read it. Dr Nicholas Lambrou, Principal Lecturer, University of
Westminster
In this great and inspiring book, Susanne has gathered the core elements
and key insights to bring you the essence of project leadership. Not only
will project managers fnd value in reading this book, but also those in a
leadership role or who seek to evolve into one. Similar to her frst book,
it contains coaching questions that challenge you to think about yourself,
assess your situation and commit to becoming the leader you wish to be.
This book should be your personal development tool for this year! Birger
Kontek, Senior Change Manager and Vice President, Barclaycard Germany
Key#1 is ‘be authentic’ and with this book Susanne has shown true
authenticity by empowering her readers with stories, insights, tools and
practical activities, along with a vision of what a project leader needs
to be. The Power of Project Leadership is recommended reading for all
project m anagers. Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager
Susanne provides a refreshing approach to project leadership. A refned
mix of insight and practice gives us all the opportunity to take a look
in the mirror and choose to make some changes. This isn’t a theoretical
treatise, but rather a workshop manual that I wish had been available
earlier on in my career. It would have saved me from a few scrapes! Julian
Bullen, Project Director, The Clarkson Alliance
Susanne’s book is a blueprint for moving from project management to
project leadership and will, without a doubt, become a reference for those
who are looking to take their leadership skills to the next level. The book
is a true hands-on approach with each chapter chock-full of principles you
can almost immediately cut-and-paste into your professional engagements.
With tested ideas for professional development, avoiding common
pitfalls, empowering your team, and engaging stakeholders, Susanne takes
Project Managers by the hand and equips them with all they need to stop
managing and start leading. Cesar Abeid, PMP, founder of PM for the
Masses podcast
Susanne has produced a guide to enable the transition to project leadership
that balances the right amount of theory, with relevant and insightful
stories and sticky ideas from practitioners that are relevant and easy to
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understand. She also makes the reader refect on one’s own behaviors,
barriers, drivers and motivations in a way that is not intrusive but
sometimes confronting. This work will support the growth of project
leaders worldwide and can only result in the delivery of more and more
successful projects and programs and leaders. I commend this work as a
must read to every project manager regardless of the type of project you
are working on – it will help you now and in the future. Deborah Hein,
CEO, International Centre for Complex Project Management
This excellent book takes you on the next vital step of your project career
journey from manager to leader. Susanne’s book is a well thought out and
highly practical guide to how to break through the fear barrier of ‘not
wanting to let go of control’ and moves you into learning how to ‘inspire
rather than perspire’ – I highly recommend it. Stephen Carver, FAPM,
Cranfeld School of Management
I am delighted to see that the need for greater focus in leadership and
communication has been captured in Susanne’s new book The Power of
Project Leadership. This book captures the importance of entrepreneurial
spirit and correctly emphasizes the ‘human aspect’ whilst addressing
the psychological and physiological issues in leadership development.
Congratulations Susanne, your new book helps provide the ‘keys’ for
future leadership development and will make an important contribution to
the global complex project management community. Stephen Hayes MBE,
Founding MD of ICCPM and MD of Complexity Solutions
Managing projects is exciting and fun. But there comes a moment in every
project manager’s career when you realize that there must be more than
just bringing tasks to completion. This is the moment when you realize
that you want to go from project manager to project leader, which is when
you have to pick up The Power of Project Leadership. Susanne Madsen’s
book is an in-depth road map that shows you exactly how to re-invent
yourself and go from managing your projects at the task level to leading
them through vision and empowerment. Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, Host of
The Project Management Podcast
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The Power
of Project
Leadership
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By the same author:
The Project Management Coaching Workbook
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The Power
of Project
Leadership
7 Keys to Help You
Transform from
Project Manager
to Project Leader
Susanne Madsen
KoganPage
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ISBN 978 0 7494 7234 4
E-ISBN 978 0 7494 7235 1
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Madsen, Susanne.
The power of project leadership : 7 keys to help you transform from project manager to project
leader / Susanne Madsen.
pages cm.
ISBN 978-0-7494-7234-4 (paperback) – ISBN 978-0-7494-7235-1 (ebk) 1. Project m anagement.
2. Leadership. I. Title.
HD69.P75M325 2015
658.4’092—dc23
2014030002
Typeset by Amnet
Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
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The world needs your genius and it needs your leadership
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