HBR's 10 Must Reads On Managing Projects and Initiatives

Harvard Business School

Publisher: Harvard Business School, 2024, 163 pages

ISBN: 978-1-64782-693-2

Keywords: Project Management

Last modified: Aug. 4, 2024, 11:52 p.m.

Synopsis

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively.

If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you manage initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges using agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Reap benefits from your initiatives more quickly
  • Become a better project sponsor
  • Kill initiatives that aren't performing
  • Navigate the politics of innovation projects
  • Keep AI and digital transformation initiatives on track
  • Prepare for the next generation of project management tools

Table of Contents

  • The Project Economy Has Arrived
    Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
  • Too Many Projects
    Rose Hollister and Michael D. Watkins
  • Increase Your Return on Failure
    Julian Birkinshaw and Martine Haas
  • BONUS DIGITAL ARTICLE
    How to Navigate the Politics of an Innovation Project
    Brian Uzzi
  • Cultural Change That Sticks
    Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Andy Noble
  • For an Agile Transformation, Choose the Right People
    Rob Cross, Heidi K. Gardner, and Alia Crocker
  • Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation
    Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus
  • Keep You AI Projects on Track
    Iavor Bojnov
  • A New Approach for Strategic Innovation
    Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias
  • BONUS DIGITAL ARTICLE
    The Rise of the Chief Project Officer
    Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
  • Make Megaprojects More Modular
    Bent Flyvbjerg
  • BONUS DIGITAL ARTICLE
    What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like
    Rachel Longhurst and Woojin Choi