Powerful project leadership - Wayne Strider

Have you ever worked on a project that ran into serious snags? Or a project that was canceled after significant time and expense? Or one that delivered an acceptable result, yet the people involved would have rather jumped off a cliff than work together again?

How many of these situations were caused, at least in part, by people problems? In Powerful Project Leadership you'll find innovative approaches to working with people that enable you (and everyone) to do their best project work. This book will help you acquire a new toolkit for project success. You'll find yourself drawing from it often!

Powerful Project Leadership provides:


An interactive approach with exercises guide the reader in becoming a powerful project leader.


Real-life examples that show the reader how to develop and exercise powerful leadership skills


An effective approach to help project managers identify and address the root causes of problems faced during most work on projects


A solid integration of hard and soft skills

Use Powerful Project Leadership as a resource to:


Learn how to pay attention to early signs that something is going wrong on your project


Develop practical approaches to stubborn, intractable, and utterly predictable problems on projects


Improve the vital flow of information by addressing human problems and misunderstandings


Encourage change at a deep level - within the individual, on the project, and within the organization


And much more!

Wayne Strider's career spans 27 years, including 17 years with the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation and 10 years with Strider & Cline, Inc., which he cofounded. Strider & Cline is a management consulting firm offering project planning reviews, project implementation reviews, project retrospectives, and organizational assessments to information technology organizations.

Known for his ability to demystify the intersection between human and project management issues, Wayne helps executives, project managers, and technical professionals deal effectively with the inevitable human issues that can jeopardize the success of IT projects.