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An examination of how to refigure project management to be more effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Contrary to the traditional wisdom of project management, planning and doing are not separate and sequential activities, but rather occur in tandem and interact in a dance of give-and-take. Successful projects require strong leadership, and this book presents five actionable principles of Results-Focused Leadership in a convincing and easy to digest format demonstrated by stories.

ALEXANDER LAUFER is the Barney Seidle Chair in Construction Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he served as Dean of the Faculty between 2001 and 2005. He is also currently director of the Center for Project Leadership of Columbia University. He is the author of the co-author of Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, NASA History Office, 2005; the co-author of Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders, Wiley, 2000; the author of Simultaneous Management: Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, AMACOM, The American Management Association, 1997; and the co-author of In Quest of Project Excellence through Stories, Procter& Gamble, 1994. He is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Project Management Journal.