The Project Managers Desk Reference or Bush on the Couch

The Project Manager's Desk Reference

Author: James P Lewis

The definitive guide to keeping your project on time, under budget, and problem-free

In this Third Edition of The Project Manager's Desk Reference, top project management consultant James Lewis arms you with today's most comprehensive and understandable project management resources, showing you how to conduct a project of any size or nature-from the office move to building new facilities.

Using results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide presents specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business environment, walking you through proven solutions designed to keep the project moving forward.

This ready-access toolbox shows you how to:

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  Plan, execute, and control a project from beginning to end
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  Choose project managers, leaders, and teams
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  Develop project plans using Work Breakdown Structures, PERT, CPM, and Gantt schedules
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  Conduct risk analysis
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  Design a project control system
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  Use earned value analysis to track projects
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  Communicate effectively with all levels of your team
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  Conduct the essential post-project “lessons learned” review

Serving as the perfect supplement to Lewis's bestselling PM bible, Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, The Project Manager's Desk Reference provides you with the foundation you need to manage any project to its successful completion.

James P. Lewis, the world’s best-known project managementexpert, has more than 25 years of project managementexperience and has trained more than 30,000 supervisorsand managers around the world.

Table of Contents:

Section I: Introduction and Overview.
Overview of Project Management.
A Model for Managing Projects.
Section II: Project Planning.
General Aspects of Project Planning.
Planning: Developing the Project Mission, Vision, Goals, and Objectives.
Planning Project Strategy.
Implementation Planning.
Section III: Project Scheduling.
Developing a Project Schedule.
Schedule Computations.
Scheduling with Resource Constraints.
Scheduling with PERT.
Section IV: Project Control and Evaluation.
Principles of Project Control and Evaluation.
Project Control Using Earned Value Analysis.
Progress Payments and Earned Value Analysis.
Project Change Control.
Section V: Causes of Project Success and Failure.
Defining Project Success and Failure.
Causes of Project Failure.
Managing Project Risks.
Section VI: Other Issues in Project Management.
Sociotechnical Systems and Project Organization.
Profiling the World-Class Project Management Organization.
Improving Your Communication Skills.
(and more...)

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Bush on the Couch

Author: Justin A Frank

With the Bush administration in permanent crisis, a renowned Washington psychoanalyst updates his portrait of George W.'s public persona—and how it has damaged the presidency.

Insightful and accessible, courageous and controversial, Bush on the Couch sheds startling new light on George W. Bush's psyche and its impact on the way he governs, tackling head-on the question few seem willing to ask: Is our president psychologically fit to run the country? With an eye for the subtleties of human behavior sharpened by thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Justin A. Frank traces the development of Bush's character from childhood through his presidency, identifying and analyzing his patterns of thought, action, and communication. The result is a troubling portrait filled with important revelations about our nation's leader—including disturbing new insights into:

• How Bush reacted to the 2006 Democratic sweep in Congress with a new surge of troops into Iraq
• His telling habits and coping strategies—from his persistent mangling of English to his tendency to "go blank" in the midst of crisis
• The tearful public breakdown of his father, George H. W. Bush, and what it says about the former president's relationship to his prominent sons
• The debacle of Katrina—the moment when Bush's arrogance finally failed him

With a new introduction and afterword, Bush on the Couch offers the most thorough and candid portrait to date of arguably the most psychologically damaged president since Nixon.