Much has been written about leadership and team building, but there are still major gaps in thinking and research about how to engage senior stakeholders in support of an organisation's projects. The central role of stakeholders in the successful delivery of organisational strategy is becoming increasingly recognised, as is the importance of developing a sponsor culture to support more collaborative practices within the organisation. Building, and managing, relationships with senior (upwards) stakeholders is essential for success. Advising Upwards brings together the ideas of experts in fields related to engaging senior stakeholders, such as risk management, decision-making, understanding cultural considerations, effective communication and other disciplines that may enhance the sustainable engagement of senior stakeholders. The starting point is an examination of the difficulties that senior managers face as they move through the ranks of an organisation from middle management to executive levels. Senior managers usually move up through the organisation on the basis of command and control management. Once in the executive ranks they must develop a more collaborative approach and adopt the principles of emotional intelligence (EQ) to succeed. Awareness of difficulties that senior stakeholders may face drives effective approaches for communication between the team and sponsors. Case studies and stories from experts illustrate practical, structured approaches that enable the teams to develop robust relationships with senior stakeholders will result in teams 'being heard', and support their 'being extraordinary' through innovative approaches to advising upwards.
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lynda BourneEAN: 9780566092497COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 884 gHEIGHT: 246 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis LtdDATE PUBLISHED: 2011-09-28CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial ManagementWIDTH: 174 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Business strategy, Management and management techniques, Project management, Personnel and human resources management, Purchasing and supply management, Public relations, Organizational theory and behaviour
'This is a well-crafted book that will be of great interest to practitioners, students and researchers. It is particularly salient for PM practitioners because they are the front-line people who have to deal with stakeholders including their sponsors. Students, at all levels, will gain a lot from this book, particularly those that are at the junior or middle level because the content of the book is so crucial to all kinds of post graduate degrees. It is intelligently written, well referenced in theoretical as well as practical terms, with a coherent theme of managing the sponsor and project owner. The choice of sections, 'Advancing the Fundamentals', 'The Effects of Culture' and 'Being Extraordinary' is a clever and valuable way to structure the book. Researchers will also find this a very good reference. I certainly will be recommending this as a high quality book for my Masters and Doctoral students and all of these are also practicing project managers and I feel that there is great value for them from that perspective. The authors of contributing chapters provide impressive and coherent content. I feel it strikes the right balance between being a book for practitioners as well as sound advancement of an important area. It should be broadly appealing to project managers, general management practitioners and technical specialists.' Derek H.T. Walker, RMIT University, and editor of The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 'This book offers a wide range of thoughtful insights into the much under-rated skill of managing up. All too often, supply side problems are caused on the stakeholders' side and not necessarily by the suppliers. Understanding true stakeholder needs is the key to unlocking real business value.' Jonathan Dutton, FCIPS, Managing Director ,The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply Australasia (CIPSA)
Dr Lynda Bourne PMP, FAIM, is an international authority on stakeholder engagement using the Stakeholder Circle®: www.stakeholder-management.com. She works with organisations globally to manage change through managing the relationships essential for successful delivery of organisational outcomes. She has presented these ideas at conferences and seminars in Europe, Russia, Asia, North and South America, and Australia to audiences from the IT, construction, defence and mining industries. Her book: Stakeholder Relationship Management was published in 2009. She has contributed to books on stakeholder engagement, and has published papers in many academic and professional journals, including a chapter in 2010 on stakeholder engagement in Project Management Offices (PMO) faor the Project Management Institute's (PMI) publication - PMOSIG Program Management Office Handbook. She was 2010 President of the PMI's Melbourne Chapter and has contributed a quarterly column for PMI's PM Network since 2008.
Much has been written about leadership and team building, but there are still major gaps in thinking and research about how to engage senior stakeholders in support of an organisation's projects. The central role of stakeholders in the successful delivery of organisational strategy is becoming increasingly recognised, as is the importance of developing a sponsor culture to support more collaborative practices within the organisation. Building, and managing, relationships with senior (upwards) stakeholders is essential for success. Advising Upwards brings together the ideas of experts in fields related to engaging senior stakeholders, such as risk management, decision-making, understanding cultural considerations, effective communication and other disciplines that may enhance the sustainable engagement of senior stakeholders. The starting point is an examination of the difficulties that senior managers face as they move through the ranks of an organisation from middle management to executive levels. Senior managers usually move up through the organisation on the basis of command and control management. Once in the executive ranks they must develop a more collaborative approach and adopt the principles of emotional intelligence (EQ) to succeed. Awareness of difficulties that senior stakeholders may face drives effective approaches for communication between the team and sponsors. Case studies and stories from experts illustrate practical, structured approaches that enable the teams to develop robust relationships with senior stakeholders will result in teams 'being heard', and support their 'being extraordinary' through innovative approaches to advising upwards.
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lynda BourneEAN: 9780566092497COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 884 gHEIGHT: 246 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis LtdDATE PUBLISHED: 2011-09-28CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial ManagementWIDTH: 174 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Business strategy, Management and management techniques, Project management, Personnel and human resources management, Purchasing and supply management, Public relations, Organizational theory and behaviour
Dr Lynda Bourne PMP, FAIM, is an international authority on stakeholder engagement using the Stakeholder Circle®: www.stakeholder-management.com. She works with organisations globally to manage change through managing the relationships essential for successful delivery of organisational outcomes. She has presented these ideas at conferences and seminars in Europe, Russia, Asia, North and South America, and Australia to audiences from the IT, construction, defence and mining industries. Her book: Stakeholder Relationship Management was published in 2009. She has contributed to books on stakeholder engagement, and has published papers in many academic and professional journals, including a chapter in 2010 on stakeholder engagement in Project Management Offices (PMO) faor the Project Management Institute's (PMI) publication - PMOSIG Program Management Office Handbook. She was 2010 President of the PMI's Melbourne Chapter and has contributed a quarterly column for PMI's PM Network since 2008.
Die verhaal van die kasarm en die Calitze kom tot 'n mooi einde
Ek kan nie ’n boek summier toemaak nadat die slotsin geskryf is nie. Ek lees álles, tot by die outeursnotas en die bronnelys (gewoonlik gooi ek darem net vlugtig ’n oog oor die bonne!). Chanette Paul maak in die nota oor Maanschijnbaai 2, die verdere verhaal van Nan en Jeannie, die stelling: “Lesers moet my asseblief vergewe dat my verbeelding altyd die oorhand oor die werklikheid kry en verdigsel voorkeur bo feite.” (p.635) Ek wil daarby aanhaak en bieg dat ’n uitstekende verhoudingsroman soos hierdie tydelik die oorhand gekry het oor my traagheid om te lees oor reïnkarnasie en die esoteriese. Die klomp Calitzse het my tyd en aandag totaal gekaap.
Die skrywer wy die laaste bladsye aan ’n verduideliking oor hoe die Maanschijnbaai-tweeluik ontstaan het. Sy beweer dat die Calitze haar “onkant” betrap het. Sy wou ’n romanse skryf maar uiteindelik was die karakters so kompleks dat dit op twee dik boeke en ’n intense familiedrama uitgeloop het.
Van die onderskeie karakters raak diep waarhede kwyt wat die moeite werd is om te onderstreep en te onthou, soos Zach wat dit gehad het oor die risiko om iemand op ’n pedestal te plaas omdat jy daardeur die persoon ’n onreg aandoen. (p.539) En Nan, wat die hele klomp Calitze moes grootkry, se wyse raad: “Met eerlikheid, Jeannie, kom ’n mens baie verder as met opoffering. Met eerlikheid gee jy almal ’n regverdige kans. Opoffering beteken bloot jy doen iets teen jou sin omdat jy glo dit sal ander baat.” (p.613)
Maak seker dat jy genoeg tyd op hande het, dan lees jy hierdie tweeluik in volgorde, Jo & Sue, gevolg deur Nan & Jeannie. Dit is hersien en met splinternuwe, pragtige baadjies uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
A very practical approach and the tools to go along with it
Very useful. The book provides a structure and an approach that I would have been useful earlier in my investing. I like the five gates and in particular the attention to quality and management's capital allocation decisions. I will also apply the idea of the stewardship log to get more explicit on my investment theses. This is kind of the practical aspect of what I learned from the Psychology of Money.
the title ties in really nicley the more towards the end but the title for the book suits it real...
the book is very slow burn and takes a while for like captivating parts of the book .but the middle to the end the pace of the book is really nice the beginning is just repetitive and and trust the processes
Skuld en vergifnis word nie versuiker in hierdie jeugverhaal nie
Twee halwes maak ’n hele is die wenner van ’n jeugboekprys. Ek moes myself gedurig herinner wat die teikenmark nou eintlik is, want die sake wat aangeraak word, is geensins beperk tot jeugdige lesers nie. Die sterk newe-karakters dra daartoe by die selfs baie ouer lesers goed aanklank kan vind by die storielyn wat ontvou.
“Hulle sê as jy iemand vergewe, lig jy ’n vrag van daardie persoon se skouers af. Maar miskien is sommige dinge net te swaar om van iemand anders se skouers te lig?” (p.178) Baie aandag word gegee aan skuld en vergifnis, maar geen suikeromhulde kitsoplossings word aangebied nie. Dit sou die storie beslis vervlak het.
Na die aardskuddende ontdekking wat Lira gemaak het, gaan sy vir drie maande na ’n Griekse eiland en maak sy kennis met haar ander helfte, ’n halfsuster wat presies die teenoorgestelde is van haar eie ingetoë, overthinking self. Ek het daarvan gehou dat hulle, die verskille ten spyt, nie in heftige konflik was nie. Eerder besig om algaande te ontdek dat hulle by mekaar kan aanpas en albei sterker daardeur kan kom.
Marita van der Vyver is ’n waardige wenner van die Tafelberg Jeugboekprys en hierdie boek hoort beslis in van der Vyver versamelings. Dit is uitgegee deur Tafelberg, ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers.
