Leadership Principles for Project Success

This book is about project success and the secret to achieving this success, effective project leadership. Filled with samples, templates, and guidelines, it covers the five principles of effective project leadership: building vision, nurturing collaboration, promoting performance, cultivating learning, and ensuring results. Using nontechnical language, this practical guide explains how to integrate these principles into daily work to help you effectively set up, manage, and align your projects for success.

Praise for: 

… a great leadership book with five sound leadership principles. … any project manager or leader would benefit from this book. … filled with common sense suggestions on how to start new projects using the five principles and what to do to bring troubled projects back into alignment.

—Patrick S. Durkin, Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel in PM World Today, December 2010, Vol. XII, Issue XII

I love this book. … fun and interesting to read …on my short list of recommended readings and references for an effective leader’s toolbox.

—Neal Whitten, PMP, Best Selling Project Management Author

… a great resource for not only projects, but for success in life in general. 

—Lee Cockerell, Former Executive V.P., Walt Disney World Resort

… an essential step-by-step reference for the professional project manager.

—Robert Urwiler, CIO, Vail Resorts Inc.

Thomas Juli has drawn on his substantial experience in project management to show the way to success.

—Murray Weidenbaum, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan

 … contains many helpful suggestions for creating ‘Wow Projects’: i.e. projects that surprise and delight their clients.

—Stephen Denning, Author of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management and The Secret Language of Leadership

… provides an excellent range of tools and advice to elevate your project role from manager to leader.

—Peter Taylor, Accomplished Leader, Professional Speaker, and Author of The Lazy Project Manager

… provides the reader with solid leadership concepts that are supported with a clear understanding of how to apply them specifically in the project environment.

—Michael O’Brochta, PMP, President, Zozer, Inc., Former Senior Project Manager at the CIA, Thought Leader, Author, Lecturer, and Trainer

 … practical examples and templates enhance the quality of this exceptional book.

—Ginger Levin, Ph.D., PMP, PgMP, Project Management Consultant, and Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Untuk Indonesia yang Kuat

This book includes Ligwina views on how to make Indonesia become strong. According Ligwina, we must have a strong Middle Class also to achieve it. 

In this book Ligwina explain who and what the Middle Class. Middle class is none other than those who have a steady job, living quite comfortably, but still must try to maintain his lifestyle. Could be we who referred to as the Intermediate Group. So, we are the ones who can make Indonesia become more powerful. 

Ligwina also explains various ways to make healthy financial Middle Class is clearly with a distinctive style. How to manage finances, including pension funds and education are discussed with a straightforward, accompanied by a check list 100 steps that must be fulfilled to be part of a strong Middle Class. Due to the strong Middle Class, the stronger the Indonesia. 

This book is written with the typical narrative Ligwina a relaxed, sharp, easy to understand and probably will keep the reader entertained. Besides being equipped with illustrations that enrich the content, visually also designed specifically for readers to enjoy this book from beginning to end. 

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Easy Guide to the Queen’s Gambit Accepted

The Queen’s Gambit Accepted is one of Black’s most trustworthy and yet dynamic ways of facing the Queen’s Pawn Opening. Black immediately accepts the invitation to open the position, leading to positions rich in positional and tactical complexity. Now, for the first time, Graeme Buckley uncovers the secrets behind the opening which ahs become a firm favourite amongst many of today’s top players. Cadogan’s new Easy Guide series represents a new approach to chess opening books: just enough detail and just enough explanation to enable readers to play an opening with confidence, without months of memorizing theory-the easy way to master a chess opening. Graeme Buckley caused quite a stir in his first year as a professional player, securing his International Master title in a matter of months, quickly followed by his first grandmaster norm. More recently he has also been involved in some major coaching projects.

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